I'm back.
I see my son answered while I was away on a road trip with my trailer in-tow.
We (my wife and I) were away for 10 days and travelled 4000 kilometers pulling my Gypsy Trailer (Scarab model) using the Hichdoc hitch. We travelled through Northern Ontario along the north shore of Lake Superior (lots of hills) then through the Prarie country and back.
As for the hitch. It performed beautifuly. I installed it myself in 1.5 to 2.0 hrs with my wife's help for a few minutes to start a nut while I held the hitchin place. Easy Peazy. The roads were hilly, winding in places, and not so smoothall the time and the hitch nevercaused me any concern. I haven't seethe Buschtech nor how it's mountedbut I'm sure it's a good hitch, however I saved a lot of money anda lot of grief during installation and I know I have a very good hitch that I don't have to worry about.
The trailer. Wow! I'm impressed, very impressed. It really matches the bike, in fact during our trip wewere asked many times if the bike and trailer were a factory set. I don't think there is a better match available. It carried all our gear and beleive me we didn't leave anythingbehind, next time we can cut our load down considerably.Unless you hit a bump you'd never think you were pulling a trailer, it doesn't affect bike handling at all. When the trailer wheels hit a bump you feel them of coarsebut this is just natural with any trailer on a bike or car. Wind had no affect on the trailer at all and it did getawfully windy riding along the north shore. The affect on gas milage wasnot severe however I did notice that driving in 5th not 6th and staying between 55 and 60 mph (100 - 110klph) gave me the best instant MPG- KPL read out. I still had excellent range andnever had to worry about the next fuel stopnor wereour refuel stops as frequent as some other bikes we shared the highway with. The shape of the trialer I'm sure hadeverything to do with it. We had well over 200 lbs of gear in the trailer and bounce was not an issue. The trailer has a full alluminium framewith independant torsion bar suspension. Backing the trailer up wasn't a problem, mind you I may have an advantage as I tow a boat with my truck quite a bit so I may have more experience than some. You do want to make sure that you don't jack-knife but that's just a given. The trailer is also equiped with a swivel hitch just incase you should drop the bike it won't put undue stress on the hitch and ball and I think every trailer should be equiped with one. Oh yes and it's water tight, I know this because it rained really, reallyhard on us 8 out of 10 days on the highway and our gear remained dry the whole time.
This reply is getting a bit long so I'll cut it off but if anyone wants to know anything about the rig I'llbe happy to reply.