Hi edpick

Now I am not an expert but I do have quite a bit of experience. I would say your x9 is far to heavy to hang on the back of the Bailey. anything over 100kg and you find the front end of the motorhome will very light on the steering and you will probably be overweight on the rear axle. I know one or two people who have found this out to their cost.. We carry a PGO TREX 125cc and that weighs 110kg and that is on the back of a tag axle. Now I know the X9 is a great scooter as we have an X10 but unfortunately that stays at home because of the weight.. However, if you did not want to tow, I did see in France this year what was a rigid trailer on the back of a camper. This was connected with two tow hitches and therefore didn't articulate, but the wheels did! so when the guy reversed the unit just stayed straight. The guy was carrying an MP3 on it.. I have tried to search for this type of mounting on the internet but know luck so far.

Hope this helps

Spinner

Hello again

Just found this on You Tube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X-NsNFDMdE

I also notice that Ken & Kathleen did post this on Club Motorhome 19th June 2013

Spinner

I agree with Spinner's comments above.

There is a bit of homework to do in order to calculate the weight you can hang on the back of a motorhome. It's also necessary to visit a weighbridge to get weighed in full touring trim with readings for front axle, rear axle and total weight. This will give you a starting point for the following calculations.

There is a formula to calculate what your scooter and rack will add to these figures if added and its something like this:

1. Measure your motorhome's wheelbase (centre to centre between front and rear
wheels) .

2. Measure distance from centre rear wheel to centre of load to be carried.

3. Add together the weights of the load including scooter/fuel, scooter rack and all fittings.

You then divide 1 by 2 and then divide 3 by the result of that. This shows you how much in addition to the actual load gets added to the rear axle because of the fulcrum effect caused by the total overhang, this is also the amount that gets taken off your front axle and shows that could be a problem too - especially for front wheel drive grip

In simple terms if 1 is five metres and 2 is two and a half metres then the first bit of calculation is 2.

If the total weight of your scooter/rack etc is 200kgs then the result of the last bit of the calculation would be 100kgs - meaning an extra load of 300kgs (200kgs + 100kgs) on the rear axle and the 'additional' 100kgs would come off your front axle.

Hope that makes sense and helps a bit :dry:

One of our members, Dreammobil, has one of those rigid trailer platforms and I think it works very well for heavy loads.