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Old 02-03-2025, 11:16 AM   #1
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2022 Micro Minnie FLX 2306BHS Rear Hitch Towing

Winnebago says you can only have 150 lbs of weight on the 2 inch receiver below the bumper. You can buy bolt on hitches for the bumper that claim 350 to 400 lbs of tongue weight and can tow up to 3500 lbs. Looking at the receiver hitch that comes with it, 150 lbs seems like a total joke. We bought an e bike carrier and it and the bikes weigh 225 lbs. any thoughts ??
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Old 02-04-2025, 01:13 PM   #2
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Called Winnebago and as suspected they gave me the wrong rating for the 2 inch receiver hitch on the Micro Minnie FLX. Its 350 lbs not the 150 lbs they originally stated.
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Old 02-05-2025, 12:46 AM   #3
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Be aware that most bike racks are not approved for use behind a travel trailer. Are you sure that yours is? Also, adding 250 lbs to the rear bumper reduces the tongue weight on your tow vehicle and can lead to serious sway issues.

I know, I know. You see trailers with bikes, etc on the back all the time.

But what you don’t see are the trailers dragging destroyed bikes behind them. Or trailers that have massive sway issues due to hundreds of pounds of weight hanging off the back. Do some research and you’ll see that this is a real problem.
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Gonna try it and go easy and have a rear camera so I can see what its doing. Maybe 30 gallon propane takes would help with the tongue weight and seems they will fit. I have a sway bar and have good air bags. Maybe add a second sway bar ?
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No, sway bars do not affect tongue weight. Right now, how much does your TT weight fully-loaded? What is the loaded tongue weight?
According the the specs for your TT, it has a GVWR of 6,000#, w/ tongue weight of 610#. Now you can calculate the effect of adding 225# of bikes + weight of carrier to behind the rear bumper, and how it will affect tongue weight, as well as your loaded trailer weight.
Tongue weight must be a minimum of 10% of loaded trailer weight; 12% is better IMO.
FWIW, It's my experience, as tongue weight % decreases, sway increases-to a point..
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Old 02-07-2025, 02:03 PM   #6
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I fully agree with being super extra careful on this subject as it is not as clear as it seemed to me before I got my scare!
Being a scoutmaster, I thought I was careful. But I missed a point when dealing with loading a small two wheel trailer full of scout equipment. Not a big load at all behind my pickup and the first twelve miles of two lane out to the interstate was no big thing.
Going down the entrance ramp to the interstate was where it all went bad!
When I got to about 40 to merge with traffic, the trailer began to go crazy! I could actually see the TOP of the trailer as it swung from left to right and tried to get off the hitch!
We did not crash but I did find both rear truck tires and the tires on the trailer had road scrapes almost fully up to the rims as it swung left and right.
Did you know scouts will tend to leave the heavier items until all the light stuff is loaded on a trailer?
Since it was already hitched to the truck, I failed to check tongue weight! The scary part is that I did not know it until I reached some critical speed where it was too late !
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