well good morning everyone how you doing Eric here from nomadic fanatic beautiful sunny
day in Florida although we did get some rain last night um in today's episode guys are
uh this is what I hinted at and in my last video at the meet and greet is that um I'm
working on making some more changes and uh if you've been following me for a while you
know I'm a very spontaneous person but I also do a lot of planning behind the scenes That
You Don't See this particular trip is spontaneous in a way that um well let's just go throughout
the day and see what happens [Music]
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with the bumps and stuff but uh yeah um I gotta put on some miles guys we're gonna leave
the Tampa area and go about an hour north up the coast past Weeki Wachee the mermaids
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video now back to the task at hand today uh on the back of the RV no car no bike rack
nothing did that on purpose this is what's going on over the years I have been talking
about a way to travel with both a car for nasty weather or hot weather air conditioning
and to travel with my motorcycle weight is the issue not only with a Class A Gasser that
can tow 5000 pounds and 500 pounds on the hitch but specifically the smaller class C's
which are limited to only 3 500 pounds of Towing and 350 pounds directly on the tongue
weight there so with those limits with those limits you can't really get a 24 foot enclosed
trailer and put a car in a motorcycle because the trailer itself weighs 3 000 pounds it
dry so um I've been doing a lot of research lately and not lately for the last couple
years I've been doing research I found something I'm gonna go pick it up right now in fact
I just stopped over at uh the Bank of America there to get cash so that I can go make the
purchase of something I've already looked at we're gonna go hook it up to the RV and
then I will share more with you later and tell you how it works yeah all right we're
all hooked up back there see it in the camera here and I can see it on the sides when I
turn a little bit to the left or right uh let me get parked up here and then we'll take
a little peek at it just so you know I'm working on two different big things at one really
three big things at once um so I'm multi-filming for different videos right now if that makes
any sense so let me get parked in the next RV park up here and I'll get you guys caught
up a little bit more with what's what's in tow okay all right all right all checked in
first time here it's another escapees RV Park in Sumter Florida so I think it came out to
like 24 bucks no maybe maybe 26 a night for a pull through site and uh I'm gonna show
you what's on the back of Frida here there's another reason why I'm in Florida which we'll
cover in another video trying to figure some other stuff out but uh by the time I show
you this I think this is gonna be a game changer guys I uh little let's just let's just Dive
Right In in a sense this is a dolly that I have here it's a car dolly you know like if
you didn't want to flat tow your vehicle and you're gonna pop the front two tires up that's
what this is right here okay it's a dolly this little platform is something very unique
and that's where this very unique trailer gets its name right there tandem toe HD so
what it is is it's meant for hauling a golf cart a Razor side by side a motorcycle so
I actually found one of these two years ago online on a YouTube video and I started looking
at some prices and the prices were anywhere between nine thousand and twelve thousand
dollars brand new I didn't really understand why they were so expensive but I knew it was
like the perfect solution behind a Class C with some weight limitations you know so I've
been looking on Craigslist Marketplace this one popped up here in Florida for 2500 bucks
guys an absolute steal it's not in perfect condition it's used but let me go over some
of the basics here first of all let's start up here see that guys this trailer has surge
hydraulic brakes built in which means by simply plugging in the lights right here it sends
power to the hydraulic system that applies brakes separately independently to the rear
tires of the dolly when I when I slow down so essentially tater tot is not going to need
a brake system inside because the dolly itself will slow down with the RV now you buy a standard
Dolly you're probably not going to get any sort of brake assistance okay so that part
is pretty much normal back here except for this I don't know if all dollies have this
capability but you pull out this bolt right here and where the wheels of the car sit can
move can move there's another hole right there even so you could have the wheels almost in
front of the axle now the reason for that is super important okay we're gonna put a
Harley up here you can put a full bag or a thousand pound Harley up here if you want
what you want to do is you want to weigh out the trailer and balance it so that you're
not putting a thousand pounds of Harley directly into a hitch that's only rated for 500 pounds
so you load your bike up with all your gear and all your straps then you adjust the car
where you need it a little bit farther back it's in the middle right now so I've got lots
of play and then you're going to have that weight distribution you know more car weight
is going to lift the bike and and apply less pressure to the back here so it's a great
system for not adding a whole lot of weight the trailer itself does weigh 488 pounds so
just like my enclosed trailer there in Arizona I'm not going to be able to pick this up by
myself and move it around uh however you can back it up I wouldn't back it up with a car
on it because you could have some damage and I know this is weird because I got it now
and I don't even have Black Betty in my Harley with me but still still this is this will
fix it later so that I can bring the car and the bike and I don't have to pick and choose
or if something changes along down the road and I find the perfect bike to add to my bike
collection I might okay so I also want to say and we'll figure this out in a future
video but um putting a smart car front tires on here uh just normal is not a good idea
it's a rear-wheel drive car you can't do that some people have said that you can get a smart
car and flip it around put the rear up here and drag the front of the Smart car I also
wouldn't advise that because a smart car doesn't have a locking wheel that you know is just
going to go crazy and you and you could damage it so I wouldn't do that now what I have is
a full flat toe kit that puts the transmission into neutral and saves the car the transmission
from being damaged so what I will do is simply drive up onto the ramp put it in flat tow
mode and then it doesn't matter that the rear wheels are going to drop drag because there
would have been on the ground anyway when I was Towing it and the front wheels will
be up here um one of the another benefit there's a lot of benefits to this but the camera system
that shows down here is can you see that I can actually see the tread of the dolly so
I know when I'm driving if I get a flat in the dolly as well as I can see that the front
tires are there I'll have the sensors on the car this this is probably the coolest thing
so it's going to protect the motorcycle and the car to an extent like the whole top up
in the car maybe not underneath it's going to protect both from rocks and ships and mud
and dirt and dust and grime and sand and all the stuff that gets kicked up from the back
wheels of the RV this is going to protect it now it's not an enclosed trailer so if
it's gonna rain or I'm going down a dusty road or something I'm going to want to put
a motorcycle cover over the bike because it's out in the elements and stuff which I'll probably
do most of the time I think I'll probably have it covered unless I know it's going to
be beautiful and I'm On Pavement but it's a really cool system and I almost feel guilty
that I got such a good deal on this because I can almost guarantee you these are going
to get popular now once I swear it always happens but once I start making this a thing
more people are gonna do this and then the price of these tandem tow HDs is just gonna
Skyrocket even the used ones so I'm sorry if you don't get the best deal that I got
but this particular one comes with three ramps they come to stock so I got the three ramp
system and that's so that the motorcycle can drive up the middle and then as you're going
up your feet are going to be on a stable platform on the bike as you go up they store on here
but I didn't get the wing nuts for these bolts so they store there and then uh Let's see
we got the hooks on the side to strap down the bike um I'm gonna have to install a wheel
chock and what else lights there are lights on the corners there which is awesome it came
with some used straps that are in okay condition for now those will last a few more years going
back to the lights um yeah it's just great having extra lights as you can see I'm kind
of blocking the RV lights anyway so um it's good to have this and the car lights will
also be lit on the back so uh yeah tandem toe oh one other thing I just remembered the
day before the meet and greet I drove tater tot alone up to his property to test this
Theory I wanted to make sure that Tater Tot could be towed a couple things I was worried
about one the wheelbase from front to back is very narrow so when you put those ramps
on and hook them right here by the time you get the front tires up here I thought the
rear tires might still be on the ramp and guess what I was right however there's an
easy work around once tater tot gets to this point right here so that the wheels are touching
this then you can take the ramps off finish driving up secure the wheels up there and
then the rear the rear wheels are not going to be on the two ramps that are down there
so
um I am going to spend one night here guys just because I'm already in the area it's
kind of weird that the cars in a different Campground right now but it's just convenient
here and uh like I said I'm working on another video also at the same time that video I am
not going to get the answers I need today unfortunately I did get the ball rolling here
but um it may be a few weeks until I update you on the other reason why I'm here in Sumter
Florida yeah um Opie you good good boy I'm such a good boy and Terra bear and chase some
squirrels girl yeah I told you guys I'm gonna be making things happen stay tuned I'll see
you in a few days when we get back to tater tot and hook everything up [Music]