Originally Posted by
JoeyBike
Are you selling trailers?
In the first photo below, on a bike without a trailer, I can keep two wheels on or just inside the fog line when two tractor trailers are drag racing behind me, while my right panniers are actually overhanging the rumble strips. No matter where that right bike trailer wheel is positioned, more of some part of my load will be in the travel lane. I am aware of some pretty skinny two wheeled trailers, one by Burly that are not much wider than my shoulders or a bike with panniers. In the second photo, won't some extra part of the rider, or the two-wheeled trailer, will be in the travel lane to avoid shaking the trailer to pieces on the strips?
Also, trailers come equipped with fat, low pressure tires for a reason - shock absorption - since a rider can unweight either bike wheel while the trailer can only slam into every obstacle. Adding high pressure tires will serve to scramble the trailer's load and likely transfer stresses to the frame/bearings/hubs/axles that were not engineered into the unit. The smaller the wheel diameter (shorter the spokes) the more energy would be transferred to the rest of the unit. 26 inch wheels would help, as many trailers have those, but still...a 1" high pressure tire would probably demand a rim/wheel to match it. And the poor dog would need a mouthguard to keep his teeth from clacking togther.
I don't sell trailers, but I tour with one. A plain old tried-and-true Burley Nomad.
You have a flair for the dramatic, my friend. I get the feeling that between riding 50 MPH down a curvy road next to a sheer drop-off and riding rumble strip shoulders with drag racing eighteen wheelers behind you, you are using relatively uncommon circumstances to attempt to prove a point.
To answer your question, yes. On that particular road, part of the trailer would probably be further out into the traffic lane than with regular pans. Hopefully the race is won before the trucks get to you and the one on the right yields you some space.
I've run Schwalbe Marathon Racer 16x1.5" tires on my trailer for many thousands of miles. Pumped up to about 85 pounds. I've had no problems at all. My sleeping bag, tent, cook-kit, stove, clothes, etc. don't seem to be any more scrambled since I started running higher pressure tires. Most dogs are pretty hardy.
Sometimes what might sound, in theory anyways, to be a bad idea, is really no big deal in practice.