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Quote: Originally posted by Greendemon315 on 09/3/2015

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25kg is very light for nose weight on a caravan. The 2000kg is irrelevant really. That's what you can pull with it - the horizontal loading if you like. The nose weight is the vertical loading.

Jim

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Quote: Originally posted by Motobiman on 08/3/2015

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Quote: Originally posted by checkley1973 on 08/3/2015Maybe a silly question but what do you put in your roofbox? Can't you put this stuff in your caravan and carry the bikes on your roof?

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One thing for sure is you don't have anywhere near enough nose weight capability to carry a bike rack and van on your towbar. Your can will be circa 70kg, the rack circa 10kg so that leaves one average bike at 15kg to put you at your limit. My guess is it would be an awful tow too, we used to have a 4 bike towbar carrier and even without a van you could really feel it.

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But the nose weight refers to the load on the towball, the load on the bike rack is not on the towball.

If the bikerack was bolted to the caravan drawbar I could see how it was part of the nose weight but surely is it not part of the car load no different to it being in the boot?

Where does it say loads on the car are part of the caravan load and thus included in the nose weight?

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