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Trailers for bikes in Europe are strictly controled.  There are trailers available for small bikes but towing a full TT would be out of the question.

MOTORCYCLE TOWING INFORMATION - CURRENT LAW
Legally for a solo motorcycle to tow it must have an engine capacity over 125cc. The trailer must not exceed 1 metre in width and the distance from the rear axle centre to the back of the trailer must not exceed 2.5 metres. The motorcycle must clearly display its laden weight. The trailers laden weight must not exceed 150kg or 2/3rds the motorcycles unladen weight, which ever is the lower value. You cannot tow more than one trailer and passengers are not allowed to be carried inside the trailer.

A motorcycle/sidecar combination is treated as a solo motorcycle. A trike unit is legally treated as a 3 wheeled motorcycle (a motorcycle/sidecar combination is not!). A trike can tow up to a maximum gross weight of 254kg. All other trailer details are as per C + U Regulations.

http://www.camperlands.co.uk/trailer_tents/campmaster.html

http://www.watsonian-squire.com/luggage%20trailers.htm

http://www.tourmaster.nl/Engels_Duits/trailers_1.htm#TourMaster_150

Hope these help.   I was just so lucky to discover the little Creighton Binns special sitting in the back of Camperland. (see gallery)  They needed some persuasion to sell it to me but only as a car trailer. I have to do the mods myself which include a swivel-hitch that allows the bike to lean while the trailer stays level.  All the trailers in the links have this feature as they are sold for the purpose.

Hope this helps.   Frank aka Fidgad

Trikes are classified as cars for towing and can therefore tow wider trailers.  Even bikes in US ans Australia can go to 4ft wide which makes importing one from there problematical as they won't be legal here.

For anyone interested here a couple of other links.

http://www.roadmancampers.com/index.html   USA

http://www.classicind.com.au/   Australia

The USA one shows some neat ideas including Air Conditioning!

Quote: Originally posted by cmt52 on 20/1/2008

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In response to the article about trikes towing trailer tents. we were at the americana show in newark last year and saw about 6 lads with trikes all camped up together and they were all towing camplets. Chrissy. x

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i can second that lots of trikes there,

i was camped next to you chrissy....