Date:         Mon, 26 May 2008 22:18:18 -0500
Reply-To:     joel walker <uncajoel@BELLSOUTH.NET>
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From:         joel walker <uncajoel@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject:      Re: Small gear trailer for vanagon- any ideas?
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> choose from. Also when you purchase Make sure you find out what
> bearings it uses and buy a spare set and take along the tools to
> swap them on the side
> of the road. You will be glad you did. the trailer tires are usually
> much smaller and will spin 3 times faster then your Bus tires.


which brings up a question i've had for a looong time:

why are small trailer and camper trailer tires soooo small??!!
even the boat trailers (which are almost as common in these parts as
pickup trucks!) have tiny tires!

cause they are cheap?? but they are important ... why can't they be
the same size as car tires?? at least 13 or 14 inch rims??

better yet, how hard would it be to put an axle on a small trailer
that took vanagon 14" steel wheels? that way, if worse came to worst,
you could take the tires off the trailer, leave the trailer on the
side of the road. and limp/drive into town in the bus.

but i've seen only one picture of any buses pulling trailers with
same-as-bus sized tires. i THINK that Westfalia used to make some
trailers that had bus-sized tires, but they never imported them over
here.

anybody seen any trailers with larger tires?

joel