Trailer chains??

Macrider

I,m a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride.
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2010 Triumph R3T Black "Darksider" imitation 70cc motorized "Harley Davidson" bicycle
Ok, for those of you rocket guys that pull trailers with your bike, do you use safety chains ??
I am making up a hitch and need to know if chains are required?
 
Chains are required. However, you don't want that thing dragging behind you if something were to happen. I cut my chains(each one) and used mechanics wire to put them back together with. I then wraped them with electrical tape, so no one would notice. Thats just the way I did it. If you had a beer or two and pulling that trailer, you don't need to be pulled over because of no chains.
Hows the hitch coming?
Kid
 
I have always used them and they are required here in Auss
 
Required by law. Since you are making yours from scratch you can run a shorter chain than what the makers put on and just use decent hooks. I had to twist my chains together during the RFTW 2009 trip to prevent the sparkin' danglin' doozie after just 50 miles of highway bumps.
 
I pulled a boat trailer with my other bike, a light boat trailer. It was free and I needed it. However, I again did not want the chains connected to the bike so I wraped them around the tongue. BIG MISTAKE!! They got between the ball and the tongue and would not let me make a 55 mph turn. The bike just wanted to go straight.
Cars and trucks don't lean like a motorcycle, so an alternative is to make sure that the trailer tongue swivels.
And for those that think I'm crazy for pulling a 15' boat trailer(empty), you should have seen the look on peoples face when I pulled my log splitter up I-75 to work.
 
Crazy basterd
 
Yes chains are required and I cross mine so if it comes loose it will drop into the cross and not the road I also keep my chains fairly short it seems like more of us are starting to get trailers.
 
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