Do any of you have air ride suspensions on your atv trailers? A couple weeks back we took a couple hour trip to do some riding and with gas prices as they are we loaded all our bikes into a friends horse trailer which had air ride suspensions on it. Wow, talk about a good pulling trailer. When we got there our gear wasn't thrown all over inside the trailer, it was all still sitting right were we put it. You could barely tell the trailer was even back there.
The guy said their horses are 10x's better now that they have this trailer when they go on trips.

Any idea if haulmark offers this on their cargo trailers?

 

I dont see the point in hauling your quads in an air ride trailer when youre just gonna beat em up out on the trail. Makes no sense to me.

 

The biggest reason that stuff gets tossed all around on a regular trailer is most have leaf springs without a shock obsorber. So the thing just bounces down the road like a pogo stick on wheels. Trailers with torsion axles also are smoother as well. Some people have taken to adding shocks to the regular axles to control the bounce.

I've always thought it would be cool to use an air ride style suspension on a toy hauler. Stuff wouldn't bounce around and hopefully stay put, like you noticed.

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I understand what your saying about beating up your quads on the trails, but I guess I looked at it this way. We were hauling six quads down the rode with a potential value of $36,000, seemed to me it may be worth while to have a nicer trailer to haul them on. Plus one of those air rides has to increase the value of your trailer at resale time.

I'm going to look into it more. My friend said they actually get better fuel milage with their dually since they started pulling their horses using this air ride trailer. Not sure how that gets them better fuel mileage, but it was definately noticeable on how much better the trailer handled going down the rode, not that it had a lot of weight back there with six quads though.

BlackandRedWarrior, the axles under this didn't have any shock obsorbers at all, just two rubber airsprings on each axle. Each wheel looked like it was indepented of each other which made it pretty nice when we pulled up into our riding area (severely rutted out rode). Both axles operated off a little 12 volt air compressor they had mounted in the trailer. I thought it was a pretty cool idea.