It looks like a magic act. In fact, these pictures illustrate how much
you can pack into the one-wheeled Inder trailer, offered for Royal
Enfield motorcycles.
Royal Enfield Club shot these pictures in response to my question about how much fits.
Even Kevin Mahoney, Classic Motorworks president, was surprised.
According to Classic, the little trailer holds "nearly two cubic feet" of stuff, and they proved it!
The cute trailers are on sale right
now at Classic for $999 plus $150 for shipping. Regular price is
$1,299. The price includes attachment hardware for Royal Enfield
motorcycles and a fold-down stand to keep the trailer upright when it's
not attached to your motorcycle.Classic is the sole distributor of the Inder trailers for North America. Here's some background on Inder, provided by Mahoney:
"They
are in the Punjab region of India (north). They were large LML dealers,
which is the company in India that makes the Stella (a license-built
Vespa scooter). Because of that they were very familiar with the Stella
colors. They are not familiar with Royal Enfield colors, which is why I
didn't get any in Royal Enfield colors. He could do Stella colors so I
bought a few.
"Fortunately
the vendor has a real paint booth and uses DuPont paint so the next
step is to try some Royal Enfield colors. This is not as easy as it
sounds. OEM paint systems are different than what is used in the field
for repair work. For example Royal Enfield paint is baked on and the
trailer paint isn't. It will take some experimenting to get it right."
The
Inder trailer has a bunch of lights, from the big taillight to the
little bullet lights on the sides and big round fixtures on side stalks.
I asked Mahoney what they're for.
"The orange ones
that are on stalks are reflectors. They are like your appendix: an
appendage from another time. The middle light is the brake light and the
two other lights are turn signals. Inside the trailer are the wires
from each component. There is no wiring harness. It is up to the
customer to decide what they want to use it with and how they want to
wire it. For example, do they want to use a trailer loom like a boat
trailer, or some other arrangement."
Attaching the trailer itself is easy, Mahoney said. On the Royal Enfield "it is a bolt-on deal."
The
single wheel is pneumatic and turns on real wheel bearings. There is a
suspension system: the wheel moves on a swing arm cushioned by a rubber
bumper. The stand provided is to hold the trailer up when it is
disconnected from the bike. You don't need it when the trailer is
attached to the motorcycle.
The Inder trailer is truly
a vintage item. It is modeled after PAv trailers made in Czechoslovakia
during the 1960s and '70s for Jawa motorcycles. Comparing those early
PAv trailers to the Inder it is hard to tell the difference. The
prototype for the PAv was aluminum, but production models were steel,
like the Inder. Early Czech trailers had lift-off lids without hinges
and you sometimes see pictures of them with a cute little rack mounted
on top. How much storage room do you need?
"One
other thing to note is that because the trailer has one wheel it leans
with the bike and you hardly know it is there," 