Road Trip with Trailer

Yesterday, Rachel and I took off for the night. We loaded the trailer with camping gear(despite not having trailer lights) and took off for Bicknell. You must be wondering what in the world would take us to Bicknell so I'll tell you. We went over to see the BIFF, Bicknell International Film Festival. It was a little like weird ville USA. We saw a movie called "The Claw" that we highly recommend.

The trailer pulled fine and follows well. Paving crews had chip sealed the dugway so we had to take it easy going up it. I would really like to get the trailer light connected however because it blocks the bike lights all together. One good discovery however is that the cooling fan does indeed work. I had never heard it kick on and worried that the sensor or thermostat or something was bad, but once we pulled into Bicknell I could hear it running. When we stopped at the campground to drop the trailer I turned off the motor but left the key on auxiliary so the fan would continue to run. After about a minute or so it shut off on its own.

We stayed in a campground just outside of town. It just so happened to be the same camp ground that all the crazy's were also staying in. Surprisingly it was pretty quiet. I locked the trailer to one of the picnic table legs with the safety chains and locked the hitch. We left it there while we went to the movie.

On the way back we decided to take a different route so we circled through Koosharem and over to Otter Creek. We stopped there for a few minutes to stretch our legs.


The bike averaged about 40 mpg which I didn't think was too bad considering we were riding 2 up and pulling a trailer with total weight of about 200lbs. The bike still held 70 mph comfortably while bucking a head wind once we got out of Marysville canyon. 190 miles total and the bike did fine. It is a far cry from a new bike but it still has some life left in it.