u/VictoriaBCSUPr — reddlx

Biking with dogs (re: bear concerns)

Staying up and around Squamish in late July and hoping to bring our pup out for short rides (like 8-10km).

We’re coming from lower Van Island where bears are minimal concern where we live - how much of a concern are they around the mtn biking areas?
She’s a good trail dog and sticks pretty close (with the occasional distraction to munch on deer bones or trash, alas), but still concerned she’ll try to befriend a bear, lol

Will also keep an eye on temps - we always stop bringing the pup on rides when the puddles dry up in our zone.

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u/VictoriaBCSUPr — 1 day ago

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Silliest “almost oopsie” you’ve done

My first real trip in our TT. Already a little tired because I had just finished a quick slide floor repair (also got the call my mom had passed that morning which I knew was coming but still..). Hook up the trailer cable to the trailer and hear a “bzzzt” and a ticking sound (later learned something must have gotten fried in the converter since the battery wasn’t providing juice to the trailer, but AC power did.). Wife was only a few weeks out of kneed surgery, had a ferry reservation to make, and it’s our first trip. Needless to say, a few things on my mind!

Check the trailer is all good and we’re on our way. A weigh station is on the way so I check my weights…a little over in the rear axle, damnit! Get to the ferry line and get out to readjust the WDH. Before I do, I think “damnit…where are the trailer keys??” Not in my pocket, not in the truck. I go around the trailer…and they’re still in the door, sticking about halfway out 😱

Holy cow… easily would have been my final nail to this trailer thing before the trip had even started!!

Anyone else have some silly and harmless oopsies/near misses?

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u/VictoriaBCSUPr — 2 days ago

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Emergency side slide repair

I was packing everything up to get ready for my first trailer trip tomorrow and as I brought the slide in, I heard a crunch and I went outside and saw the skid had been torn off. I knew there was a soft spot there and I was hoping to just get through the season and then do a proper floor repair after the summer.

With a ferry already booked tomorrow. I made a quick repair, cutting out most of the soft material, getting a new slide under the 3/4” plywood, which I already had, and trying to get it to fit into the hole that most of the soft wood was removed from. I ended up cutting it into 2 pieces so I could slide each one in (then used a combo of Kreg joints, overlapping slats, and wood screws to fasten the new pieces together and to the old floor.

Should I have replaced the whole floor? Yes if I had time. Will I replace the whole floor later? Absolutely. Will this work for the next few weeks? I sure hope so!

Definitely doesn’t look pretty but fortunately this is all under the seating and hardly affects storage at all.
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(Edits to clean up the poor grammar/add details)

u/VictoriaBCSUPr — 5 days ago

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Followed some guidelines to reset my hitch on the TT I had bought used awhile ago. When I brought it home, rear was way too low so once I did some work on everything, time to setup the hitch/WDH properly.

Weighed and measured before and after hookup:
Before:
Front: 37”/3200 lb
Rear: 40”/2450 lb
Tot: 5650lb

After:
Front: 37.5” / 2930lb
Rear: 37.75” / 3420lb
Tot truck: 6350lb (GVWR 7050lb)
Trailer: 4810 lb
Tot trailer: 5510lb (GVWR is 6500lb so still have 1000lb buffer)
Comb: 11160 lbs

As you can see from the picture, the trailer is nose-up but the weights and truck heights seem correct (front is maybe 1/2” high but level ground was hard to come by so…). Did a short drive at highway speeds and felt stable (wasn’t windy or any other big trucks tho).

Should I be concerned about the trailer angle if the weights are good? (Or do you disagree about the weights?) Worth lowering the hitch by a hole? Get the front end another inch lower?

u/VictoriaBCSUPr — 19 days ago