Great White Errors

[Ch1pbutty]

Draw backs.
Has to be on a site, can't carry bikes and has to be opened out to dry if packed away wet.

The Opus can carry bikes on the top of the tent. It has roofbars on top of the box.

 

[Jodalo]

What one is that?

Looked long and hard at trailer tents. Towing caravans can be a right pain. Will try and get pics of us on our bikes today, they are specialised Como 4's.

Have a look at Dandy trailer tents. We had one years ago and had some great trips with it. There is quite a big following with them. Riva Dandy is the company in Wigan, they don’t make them anymore but the company still exists for second hand sales and servicing etc.

 

[GrannyJen]

Have a look at Dandy trailer tents. We had one years ago and had some great trips with it. There is quite a big following with them. Riva Dandy is the company in Wigan, they don’t make them anymore but the company still exists for second hand sales and servicing etc.

Thank you.

Sadly Sis is still adamant she wants a caravan, in fact she's just bought a bigger one All we have to do is get the drive widened and lengthened before it arrives. The Eriba is nice to tow, little wider than the Cali, but too narrow and she wants something she can put the bikes in. After the faffing around getting the bikes on to the caravan bike rack I'm with her on that one,

 

[B J G]

What’s the point of this...?

GW with awning pulling a noddy car.
Surely, once you start pulling another vehicle, you may as well buy a Caravan...?
Then, you erect an awning on the mother as well...

Is it just me, or does this make absolutely no sense whatsoever?

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Does make sense depending on your criteria. Choice between >

A large caravan that needs a large 4x4 to tow it around, car available for local touring etc when on site.
Big car for everyday use being a negative. Combined cost could be over £100K

Motorhome for go anywhere short trips or can take small car to enable local trips with easy parking for longer duration trips. No need to decamp everytime a trip out is required.
Small cheap runabout when home. Combined cost can be well under £100K.
Now have to be trailered not A Frame towed requiring additional purchase-storage.

 

[Karlos]

What one is that?

Looked long and hard at trailer tents. Towing caravans can be a right pain. Will try and get pics of us on our bikes today, they are specialised Como 4's.

It's a Conway Countryman folding camper (19 years old now) Pic below is in southern France with just the sun canopy rather than the full awning also has under bed tents which we have never used.

 

[Karlos]

The Opus can carry bikes on the top of the tent. It has roofbars on top of the box.

Yes we looked at those a few years ago but I think they were wider than the car.

 

[briwy]

Talking to couple on a site near Poitiers a few years ago and they were returning to the UK after a year in Spain. They had a converted bus towing a trailer with a RIB and a Smartcar on. Hsd to laugh when the guy said they had just wiped out the barrier on a toll on the Autoroute. Apprently it had come down after the bus and before trailer. Absolute carnage.

 

[Legin]

Only makes sense to tow with a BW if what your towing is for things like car racing, boating, equestrian. As your then stuck with it towing a small car between times makes some sense. Otherwise its a nice car and caravan as lets face it a BW is horrid to drive.

 

[SimonK]

What’s the point of this...?

GW with awning pulling a noddy car.
Surely, once you start pulling another vehicle, you may as well buy a Caravan...?
Then, you erect an awning on the mother as well...

Is it just me, or does this make absolutely no sense whatsoever?

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As a new caravanner, I recently asked a bloke on a pitch next to us why he had decided to tow a little Aygo behind his 7m+ Bailey Motorhome.

His reasoning was that sometimes they like to go away for a week or two and stop at sites (which a caravan would be better for) but they also normally do lots of touring around Europe (which a caravan would be a pain in the backside for). This was their best of both worlds. Plus, the Aygo was his wife's daily driver at home anyway.

Seems very reasonable to me.

 

[Kevthegas]

Thank you.

Sadly Sis is still adamant she wants a caravan, in fact she's just bought a bigger one All we have to do is get the drive widened and lengthened before it arrives. The Eriba is nice to tow, little wider than the Cali, but too narrow and she wants something she can put the bikes in. After the faffing around getting the bikes on to the caravan bike rack I'm with her on that one,

Hi Jen,
Cali no 3 coming in 2 weeks , failed at the 3rd attempt (again) to purchase a Big white !

I will pop round as need to see your new bikes.

Kev

 

[willwander]

Chatted to a couple with a similar setup.
Both retired, doing the #vanlife thing.
They spend most of the year in the GW only popping back home for family occasions.
Fair play

 

[GrannyJen]

Hi Jen,
Cali no 3 coming in 2 weeks , failed at the 3rd attempt (again) to purchase a Big white !

I will pop round as need to see your new bikes.

Kev

Back home Saturday.

You have had more Cali's than Jo has had caravans

 

[Rich20]

This might make me a little envious but not that....
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The car is going for a bath when they launch that boat

 

[California4x4]

This might make me a little envious but not that....
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I don’t fancy reversing this one either. For when you just can’t decide what you’re going to do on holiday. Take everything!

 

[WelshGas]

I don’t fancy reversing this one either. For when you just can’t decide what you’re going to do on holiday. Take everything!

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Is that actually legal?

 

[CannonDale]

We did it the other way round, we towed our Cali with the car

 

[soulstyledevon]

We did it the other way round, we towed our Cali with the carView attachment 65727

You couldn’t pull skin off rice pudding with that thing...

 

[Jodalo]

Is that actually legal?

It used to be legal to have 2 trailers attached to a towing vehicle but the max speed of the unit is greatly reduced, in the order of 25 mph. (I am going back sometime). I can recall seeing fairground folk towing in this fashion, usually towed by their large generator wagons.

 

[NZCol]

Great Whites.
For people who hate camping, driving and shopping locally...

May as well face facts and admit you’re to tight to pay for a hotel room.

Ha ha brilliant ! Sadly all wrong, I swapped my Cali out for a BW as we use it all year round with small kids and having hot water, being self contained and being able to go to places we wouldn’t normally makes like much more fun than when we had to juggle in the Cali. Drives alright, certainly not as nice as the Cali but not actually that bad. By anyway, I doubt you give a sing so who cares.

 

[Calimili]

I don’t fancy reversing this one either. For when you just can’t decide what you’re going to do on holiday. Take everything!

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Well, let's assume there is a mechanical problem with the motorhome. You just put the ford pick up in the front and tow the MH with the jet skies behind.
You always need extra redundancies.... and a LOT of fuel!

 

[andyinluton]

Is that actually legal?

yes in the USA - not sure where that photo was taken

 

[California4x4]

yes in the USA - not sure where that photo was taken

Correct. You see it all the time in the USA. Normally a truck towing a fifth wheel camper towing a boat or dune buggy.

 

[WelshGas]

Correct. You see it all the time in the USA. Normally a truck towing a fifth wheel camper towing a boat or dune buggy.

Well their road system tends to be a little wider than ours and probably most campsites aren’t down windy single track country roads .

 

[capt kirk]

This might make me a little envious but not that....
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Must be a deep lake to get that boat off !!

 

[Kevthegas]

I don’t fancy reversing this one either. For when you just can’t decide what you’re going to do on holiday. Take everything!

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Towing £80k plus there, would love to hear the conversation with the insurance broker !!