Im looking for pictures of trailers you pull behind your car

[mopar_man]

Look for something like these:
http://harrisburg.craigslist.org/rvs/1558018590.html
http://harrisburg.craigslist.org/rvs/1548345442.html

This is a decent price but small if you want to haul two machines:
http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/mcy/1582982443.html

[atctim]

Hey - head down to your tractor supply. these are extremely economical and if you only ever plan on hauling 1 trike - you will be fine. Louis Mielke has one really similiar he pulls with his Toyota Matrix.

http://www.tractorsupply.com/trailer...b-gvwr-1011070

[leviblue]

well here's mine

[Thorpe]

I have an aluminum 5x8 2000lb trailer That works well... Only weights 325 with all the sides are crap hanging on it... I pop the gates off for deer hunting but lots of room for the BR and a few deer... (granted I am pulling behing a Cherokee, so I have a bit more in the power and brake dept.)

[JohnR.]

I had one of these for years:

4x8 Harbor Freight Trailer

Depending on the trike your hauling you can fit one or two on it. My buddy and I had stock width 250R's back in the early 90's and we were able to squeeze the two of them on the one he had back then. When I bought mine I left the fenders off when I built it, stacked two 6 foot 2x4's on top of each of the cross beams (I cut the bottom one that went by the tire down to 4 ft so it wouldn't hit the tire) and made it 6x8 so we had room for two trikes and more stuff. One trip we made down to southern NJ we had 2 250r's and two CR250's on that trailer but we were towing with my Wrangler. For a while I was towing that trailer with just the one 250R on it behind my 1980 Toyota Starlet. That car was smaller than your Civic and only had a 1.3L engine with probably 1/3 the hp at the most and I was able to pull it 70 or 80 miles. The car wasn't happy about it but it did it. I wouldn't sweat pulling two trikes with the Civic.

John

[2Tim215]

The hard part is you want to pull two at once. You should have at least a 5x9. You could back one on then pull the other next to it with the front tires side by side. I have a Honda Accord and pull a Harbor Freight 4x8. I bought the best model they offered for a few reasons. It can handle up to 1975lbs weight and it has the larger 12" wheels which pulls easy and is much easier on the bearings. Mine isn't even a year old yet and has started to rust here in central NY not only the fenders but frame and steel wheels too. Not to happy about that! Not the greatest design so I made a few modifications. A boat trailer as others have mentioned may be the way to go. The key is it will have to have a movable axle that can be centered and a lot of boat trailers have limited travel with the axle. If you can't move the axle forward you will have to much tongue weight for a Civic. The key is something that will pull easy so whatever you decide put the largest wheels on it possible and keep the weight off of the tongue. I wish now I had bought a larger one!

[JohnR.]

I built one from a boat trailer this year. The formula for locating the axle is that 60% of the deck should be in front of it and 40% behind it. I was able to just slide my axle up far enough to do that. However, a boat trailer may be too big for your Civic. If you go that route I would look for a used jet ski trailer. You want about 10% of the gross trailer weight to be on the tongue to keep it pulling properly. Like Tim said, the Harbor Freight ones do tend to rust quickly but my Dad's far more expensive prebuilt one from Lowe's is also rusting quite a bit too and its just a couple of years old. If I bought another Harbor Freight one I'd take the extra day or two to put a few coats of heavy duty paint on all of it before I assembled it then another one when I was done.

[86waterpumper]

I am studying on doing this too. I have the wife's 4runner I can borrow, to tow with but the main reason is because I see gas going high...
Once it gets beyond 3 bucks a gallon it starts really making a dent. My 97 saturn sc2 is rated at 1000 pounds also, but really that is enough.
I already have a 5x10 wire mesh trailer and I would guess it weighs somewhere around 500-550 pounds, so what I am going to try and do
is just use it, and make sure I only haul one trike, or maybe two dirtbikes. The only issue I see is it would be easy to fry the clutch.
On big hills I would keep it out of fifth gear for sure. I can get near 50mpg on the interstate with my car, so I don't see any issue getting at
least 30 towing. That kind of mileage would pay for the hitch pretty quick, which is around 130 or 140 dollars. The site I've been looking at
for stuff was e-trailer.com and they have plenty options for hitches, wiring kits, adapters from 1" to 2" etc etc. I thought about going with
one of those tractor supply trailers the 4x6 ones, but really at what they cost just to save 150 pounds or something it's really not worth it.
Some of my dirtbikes are longer than the 3 wheelers too, so I think at 6 feet it's going to be sketchy and not quite long enough. A 4x7 or
4x8 would work much better for sure

[2Tim215]

Just a plug for e-trailer.com I bought my Hitch/Receiver from them with the Honda Accord light adapter to use the standard flat four wire plug which is needed for most cars today. The plug adapter wires directly to the battery with its own in-line fuse so your lights never go dim when turning on other items, Defrost, AC, etc. They shipped fast and best price, plus gave me free shipping.

[SYKO]

I built mine myself, it started as a old pop up camper frame and used aluminum alloy panels for everything it only weighs around 300 pounds and tows like a dream at any speed and my truck dosnt even realize its behind it.









this is its first trail run after being put together






this is the main frame it dosnt look like much and weighs even less




then the panels I cut with a carbide saw on a cicular saw blade so it was a since to construct this thing, then all the panels were glues and bolted together to the frame it dosnt make any weird noices or feels loose in any way really strong and tight.









best part I got less then 250 in the complete build including new tires and lights

[86waterpumper]

that is a really sharp trailer syko! I bet the fairing and such helps cut down on wind drag alot. I like it. Here is my new towing rig :P I think it is going to do pretty well, I don't know how much the riding mower weighs but it didn't even stress it in the least. I figure the trailer weighs 550 pounds or so. I think the main factor is going to be that I'll have to watch the tongue weight more than overall weight really.