Motorcycle Travel Trailers - RV Light!

Posted by Thomas Alan Gray May 2, 2009

I've always been fascinated by tents, especially light-weight tents. The fact that a few aluminum or fiberglass poles and some bits of fabric can produce a strong, weatherproof shelter amazes me.

So I've also been amazed at the ingenuity involved in small, lightweight folding trailers for motorcycle towing. These pipsqueak pop-ups can produce pretty comfortable quarters in a remarkably short time.

I'm also a robotics hobbyist and lover of gadgets, so when I had the opportunity to correspond with the inventor of the Scarab RV automated pop-up motorcycle trailer, I just had to do a review of the prototype.

That doesn't mean that other, existing trailers are any less suitable. There are a lot of good units out there - among them LeesureLite in Canada, Roadman, Little Guy, Mini Mate, and Jumping Jack in the States, and many more.

Over the course of the summer, I'll watch for these units on the road, and I'll be doing some comparison reporting in the future.

UPDATE:

Light-weight pop-up trailers for motorcycles and compact cars