I just wanted to add a few notes about the Nomad I just bought.

I was looking for a trailer in order to cut down the use of my gas-guzzling truck. My main commuter bike is a 2005 Redline Conquest Disc-R (cyclocross bike with disc brakes---great for winter/snow commuting) with an OldManMountain rack in order to clear the disc brake. I looked at a BOB, but because of the extra-large rear skewer required by the rack (about 220mm) it wasn't really feasible. Using a BOB hitch would have required either not using the rack or finding a welder and machine shop to do a chop job to the BOB hitch and skewer.

My LBS had an '03 Nomad sitting in their display room gathering dust, but again because of the big rack and disc brake, the stay-mounted hitch was impossible. The solution was a very simple and very effective.

We ditched the stay mounted-hitch and substituted a Bontrager skewer-mount ball hitch. This required undoing the bolt on the end of the Nomad hitch arm, inserting the Bontrager rubberized plastic ball hitch in place of the Burley one, and voila! I had to wrap the Bontrager part with a layer of frame wrap to fill the extra 1mm, but that was easy. To mount the hitch i simply pulled out the skewer and put it back on, easy since I had about 5mm extra thread already on the end of the big skewer.

I think this solution is even better than the Burley design, and the hookup is effortless. The ball allows really nice tracking/turning and it sits low enough on the axle that I can still use my Arkel GT-18 panniers on the rear rack with plenty of clearance. I also have no worries about trailer-push with heavy loads thanks to the disc brakes.

The best part is that since it was the older model I got the Nomad and new hitch for $180.