Hi, Been riding motorbikes for the past several years clocking between 25,000 40,000 miles per year in the three countries of North America. The only way this is affordable is to camp virtually every night. Hotels have become way WAY too much money for a person on retirement income. So I decided to attempt at a DIY build teardrop to tow behind my motorbike. Recently a friend gifted me 3 4' x 12' sheets of 1/8" diamond plate aluminum. I picked up a very small Aluminum trailer frame with tires etc so used that for my build. It's weight is near 80lbs on the road. So far I have about 90 hours between cutting the aluminum and various aluminum tubing I picked up used here and there and my son-in-law helped me with the welding of all the pieces I cut out. I hear a lot of the word micro or mini when folks refer to their very small Teardrops to tow behind small cars. They all talk about 4" width and 8' or 10' lengths which would be HUGE compared with what I'm building. My concept is simple, I'm tired of pitching tents and crawling up off the ground basically to get out of them to go to the bathroom during the night. This trailer should resolve those issues for me. As such it only needed to be 32" wide, 39" at the tallest inside point because that is how high I am from my butt to top of my head when I sit up and stick my legs out the door to get out. My feet dangle out the door to the ground making it so much easier to get up to walk to the bathroom. Since I'm 5'9" tall 6' of interior space is more than enough for me. I bike to very out of the way places so the trailer needs to be strong enough to handle some pretty rough surfaces. Those are my requirements for this Teardrop build.
I began this project the 2nd of August 2024.
I began this project the 2nd of August 2024.
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