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Want to personalize your Ironhorse Motorcycle Trailer?

White is the standard color but if you want to personalize your motorcycle trailer, you have two options—color and graphics which you can do together or either one alone. COLOR Gel Coat Pros—You get a nice shiny tough as nails finish which is much cheaper than automotive paint. Cons—Darker colors, especially black, sometimes fade.  ...

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September 30, 2011

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Dead Breakaway Battery? Maybe, Maybe Not

Dead Breakaway Battery?  Maybe, Maybe Not Over the last eight years we’ve had a lot of calls about breakaway batteries on Ironhorse Motorcycle Trailers.  Many of them start with “the wires on my breakaway battery are too short”, to which my inevitable reaction was “what are you doing taking the lid ...

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July 12, 2011

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Tow-Ready Factory Tow Package?

Tow-Ready Factory Tow Package? Not hardly!  As far as we can tell, after nine years of building and selling Ironhorse Motorcycle Trailers, there is no such thing. .  The problem, you see, is that manufacturers seem to be the only ones who realize that the words factory tow package don’t mean ...

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July 12, 2011

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Why is Your Box Trailer so Hard to Tow? Part II

The force required to overcome wind resistance is given by: Air density factor (another constant) X    Trailer air speed squared (a variable) X    The frontal area of the trailer (a variable) X    Trailer drag coefficient (a constant) ------------------------------------------------------------------ =    Force required to overcome wind resistance If you look closely at the arithmetic above, a couple of things ...

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March 31, 2009