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Old 03-13-16 | 06:33 PM
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Thanks for all your responses, I know this topic gets covered regularly, and the answer is highly situation dependent.

I guess I envision touring only a night or two or three, and wanting to go somewhere I can ride during the day while camping. In my head, the trailer would be the only solution because I could use literally ANY bike, and even get more than 1 hitch so I wouldn't even have to remove the skewer if I was switching bikes (although that just seems lazy lol). If I wanted to do MTBiking, I would just bring my off road tires, and swap out at the campsite. I would more likely hitch it to my roadie and ride the 60 or so miles to either of the state parks, and then do road rides around the area during my downtime. As such, I just want to be able to drop the trailer and go, so I guess I answered my own question.

Not having any experience touring, I guess I'm surprised that people who are into touring seem to place rather low priority on being able to ride the bike unencumbered when they are in a temporary location. I was thinking of RV drivers who ALWAYS tow a car or golf cart or bikes or motorcycle so they don't have to drive the RV around all the time when they makes stops or setup camp. To me, the trailer accomplishes this, racks do not.
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