I'm just trying to give you food for thought. I just don't see much of a demand for that here in New England. People, who's last resort to carry a quad or extra quad. To me, it's a pretty narrow market you're aimed at. Appeal-wise, some will like it and buy it, some will like it and skip it, some won't like it at all. Willingness to shell out the cash for your design will obviously be contingent on how much you need to sell it for in order to maintain a profit and how much a consumer would be willing/wanting to spend. The design you're talking about would work on a want or need basis for someone pulling a camper that doesn't have any more room for a quad. Third, to me, is straight appeal with safety another issue to some. I'm saying that design = marketability in the sense that it has to be a design people are going to want, first, and be willing to shell out the cash for, second. Trailers are the big ticket here or if a single machine, in back of a pickup. I've yet to see one of the rigs where the ATVs were up on the racks that mount on the bed rails of a pickup. I ride with different groups of riders in pretty much all of NH and about half of Maine. (probably not with my quad and my weight though ) If it's something you end up producing there's a chance I could write up a review or one of the editors here might be able to also. If you produce one I'd love to see it and even try it out. I've built and remodeled homes for something like 38 years and I fabricate needed items for my quads on an "as needed" basis. Guess this wasn't the place to ask questions.I'm pretty good at picturing what someone is designing if they can describe it to me. Since you haven't seen the deisgn I wouldn't think it prudent to criticize it either. Somehow people including yourself seem to think that marketability = design. You are right, I asked about the marketability of such an item. I'd be hesitant about this as a solution without a really beefy, and wide, truck under it. I know that a quad weighs less than a car, but if you're talking about a modern utility machine with gas, oil, winch, etc. Not sure what your costs would be but I might be able to get a deal on a truck like pictured for not much more money and the truck itself is designed for that kind of load up high. You asked for opinions on the marketability of this design. Like this: Image Detail for - car carrier in General Equipment by BA Products Forum When you get down to it, in my mind you'd have to make something as strong and heavy duty as a cab-over car carrier or near as strong. A good side gust would cause some serious problems, let alone the wind speed of going down the highway. I also would be very concerned with the wind issue. I don't like the center of gravity issue using the systems that have the quads on racks resting on the bed rails of a pickup never mind 2.5 ft. I certainly would not want to put this rig on anything lighter than a 1 ton pickup. It gets put there automatically by the system as a certain number of posts is reached. Jumbo Frank, extremem rider huh? whatever.Jumbo Frank did not put that under his username. It may be such a thing I will need to make a wing/air dam like what people run on top of their trucks to gain an aero advantage. I don't think that's bad at all considering what we ride as a matter of course in the mountains. The ramp question is a good one, on a 2011 chevy 3500, the ramps at 11 ft long will give me a 35 degree slope to get on top.
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