Stainless Steel Micro-Airstream behind motorcycle

[ST1100]

After cutting one more willow tree yesterday in my garden, today was trailerday.

First I completed the doorframe:





And sealed it with a self adhesive rubber band.

[ST1100]

Then I fitted the door skin and drilled all the holes into it.

Next was deburring and drilling thru into the frame of the door and fitting the edges again.

[ST1100]

Last step was to degrease all and seal the frame with sikaflex.
I attached the skin with clecos in every second hole and riveted between them.
Then I removed the clecos and finished riveting.







Tom

[S. Heisley]

...So very,very nice...A work of art.

Will you insulate the inside, etc. or is this it for now?

[ST1100]

...So very,very nice...A work of art.

Will you insulate the inside, etc. or is this it for now?

Thanks Sharon - first 16 day test without insulation - maybe later !

Tom

[alaska teardrop]

Very well done, Tom.

I'm curious to learn the weight at this point before adding your camping equipment?

Fred

[Patrickteardrop]

What a beautiful trailer!

[jae]

It certainly looks nice, my only question is if you have vents for air flow? I don't recall seeing any.

[ST1100]

This week I added a handle and a lock to the door.



And today I completed the front with the spare wheel, to bring five more kg weight onto the tongue.

[ST1100]

And - I hooked it to my bike and made a one hour test ride over narrow mountain streets, high speed autobahn with strong winds and passing trucks.

The trailer follows very fine, I reduced trailer tire pressure a bit to reduce the clonks when I pass a bridge.

Tested up to 130 km/h and felt only a small swinging when reducing speed from 130 !
Perfect between 80 and 100 km/h.

Trailer weight is now 128 kg (282 lb) and five more kg adding the spare wheel.

[ST1100]

Back at home I separated the sleeping box from the base camp to install the final connections between both parts in the evening.

Weight of the cabin is exact 50 kg (110 lb) !





Tom

[PKCSPT]

Looks great

[ST1100]

Okay - last weekend before starting my journey to Spain.

Bought a sheet of blue self adhesive Oracover and nine self adhesive letters and cut a stainless plate.



After an evening I got this:

[ST1100]

Next was to mount the poles to balance the trailer if not hooked to the bike.

Bad weather outside on friday, but inside my garage no problem.





On Saturday I did nothing at the trailer, because I had a full day motorcycle safety driver training at best weather from 9 to 5 !!!

[ST1100]

First on Sunday i installed the connections between trailer platform and sleeping box.