Originally Posted by
Thulsadoom
...you are using relatively uncommon circumstances to attempt to prove a point.
It is
uncommon circumstances that somehow get us injured in life. Or at least contribute to our discomfort, mentally or physically.
My 50mph descent was not strictly my idea. The road was otherwise misleadingly perfect and my rim brakes had begun to emit smoke while trying to maintain a reasonable speed. Without the ability to "Use Lower Gears" to slow my descent on a freewheeling bicycle, and no place to pull off the road, my best option was to let-er-rip and allow for some high speed rim cooling physics. Uncommon circumstance - for sure. Would a trailer have made that unavoidable (other than just staying home) uncommon circumstance even worse? You bet.
The fact that you and countless others LOVE touring with a trailer, and folks like me tried to love it and discovered much different emotions instead, is what makes Web forums great sources of REAL information and will certainly enrich the life of the Original Poster to this thread if not several others visiting here. Neither of us are trying to sell anything, just relate our experiences the best we can.
Originally Posted by
Thulsadoom
Sometimes what might sound, in theory anyways, to be a bad idea, is really no big deal in practice.
Until those
uncommon circumstances rear up and punch us in the throat. Then in hindsight it all seems crystal clear. Between the two of us, and others here, valuable experience has been made available to the OP. That's what it's all about after all.