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White is the standard color but if you want to personalize your motorcycle trailer, you have two options—color and graphics which you can do together or either one alone.

COLOR

Gel Coat

Pros—You get a nice shiny tough as nails finish which is much cheaper than automotive paint.
Cons—Darker colors, especially black, sometimes fade.  The number of standard colors is limited and none of them are likely to exactly match your favorite bike or tow vehicle.

Automotive Paint

Pros—We can closely match the metallic finish of your favorite bike or tow vehicle with a metallic automotive paint that fades no faster than the typical modern automobile.
Cons—Paint is not as tough as gel coat so you’ll need invisible gravel shield on the front to keep the paint from chipping, and you can expect this approach to be very expensive.

GRAPHICS

Air Brushed

Pros–Although we don’t offer this option, there’s nothing to stop you from finding your own artist.  Individual designs can be wildly individualistic depending on the artist you choose.
Cons—Air brushing is typically very expensive and sometime so personal that it can limit your resale opportunities and value.

Vinyl

Pros—Relatively inexpensive and easy to peel off if you trade your tow vehicle—a lot of   bang for the buck.
Cons—Life of the graphics is supposedly limited to seven years or so.  You have to actively participant in the design process to get what you want.

Clearly it takes a frame and several fiberglass parts as well as the hardware and electrical parts necessary to assemble the final product.

When we started building motorcycle trailers in 2002, both our frames and fiberglass were produced by outside suppliers. That sounds okay on the surface, but there were several things wrong with that approach.

Our original building was so small that keeping much inventory of frames and sets of fiberglass parts was impractical. Instead we relied on our suppliers to produce and deliver at the same rate we used the parts.

But it seemed like we were out of either frames or fiberglass parts more often than not. And without both, we couldn’t build trailers. Since no amount of jawboning did any good and we were tied into a five year lease, we struggled with that situation until 2008.

When we moved into our current facility in 2008, we quickly started making our own frames but continued to truck fiberglass parts in from the same supplier—a distance of 100 miles. Making our own frames helped but we could still only assemble in fits and starts as our fiberglass supplier just didn’t get regular.

So we spent much of 2008 and 2009 building molds for a new model and learning to fabricate fiberglass parts. By the time we introduced the Widebody in 2009, we had strong enough fiberglass skills to build all the parts for it in-house. That smoothed out our output a little more, but one and two bike motorcycle trailer assembly was still as erratic as ever.

By Thanksgiving of 2010, the handwriting was on the wall. We were never gonna get where we wanted to be without bringing the remaining fiberglass production in-house. So we bit the bullet and started producing ALL our fiberglass parts.

Start-up was interesting to say the least, but now when we don’t have frames or fiberglass parts to assemble motorcycle trailers, it’s because WE didn’t make them. If there’s a blemish on the fiberglass or a bad weld, it’s because WE did it. Gratifyingly enough, neither happens nearly as often now that the buck stops here.