Originally Posted by
soappedaler
I emailed Bikes at Work and they got back to me quickly. They have 2 options for a Dummy or Xtracycle. You can use the regular hitch or they make one similar to the one Metal Man made. They cation that the one that attachs to the back is limited to a tongue weight of 50 pounds, which is different than carrying capacity so I'm thinking that heavier loads just ride to the back of the trailer. So Metal Man do you have issues with tongue weight?
I have a BAW 64a, that I use often. I've carried as much as 350 pounds on the trailer and have posted many pictures of my hauls on this site.
It's not always easy to balance the load. Setting up the trailer from the beginning with such a limitation on the tongue weight would, to me, be crippling. I always try to balance the load so tongue weight is minimized. However, that can't always be done. The BAW axle does not sit in the middle of the trailer. It's either in the very back, in the middle back, in the middle front, or in the very front. Because the axle is off-center, the weight will often be too. If I was to be affixing a BAW to a Big Dummy, I would want a hitch that gives me the most flexibility for tongue weight.