Friend of mine that lives about 50 miles out of town showed me an old Concours hitch he had awhile back, and asked if I wanted it. At the time I wasn’t interested since I was in the process of swapping out seats that a friend of his re-upholstered for me; had no way of carrying it. That was late last year some time.
Roll forward to February of this year and wanting to put the trailer to use, I had second thoughts about the hitch. I had to remove my HitchDoc when I installed the Delkevic slip-ons I’d won at the National down in Helen. Their upswept angle just didn’t allow the hitch to stay in place. Yeah, I could modify it, but I really didn’t want to whack up a perfectly good hitch if I didn’t need to. I also didn’t want to put my stock pipes back on either, so enter the hitch my friend offered me.
I called him and it was still available. But then, the virus crap came into play in March and my wife put me under spousal house-arrest; I was never able to get back out to his place to get it – until today. Took the ride out to his place in the a.m. on the KLR, strapped the hitch to my rack, and came back home.
Unfortunately, he had no recollection of who had made the hitch, or even where/when he got it. There are some pieces missing, and it’s certainly a little different in the way it mounts. At this point, I’m not sure which way it goes, so take what you see in the pix with a grain of salt.
The two up rights are marked with an “L” and “R”, but also have a “D1” stamped on them. Kinda weird that they have two holes at the top that I assume is supposed to bolt to the bike somewhere. My HitchDoc supports has one hole and bolts to the rear bolt of the bag mount.
The rear of the hitch has a pad with 4 threaded holes that I assume some type of receiver attachment bolts to. The pad also has a “D1” stamped on it.
So, do any of you old trailer draggers have any idea who might have originally made this thing?
Because of the orientation of the "D1" on the rear pad in the following two shots, I think this is the way it is to be mounted up to the bike.
Anyone have any knowledge of this thing?
Roll forward to February of this year and wanting to put the trailer to use, I had second thoughts about the hitch. I had to remove my HitchDoc when I installed the Delkevic slip-ons I’d won at the National down in Helen. Their upswept angle just didn’t allow the hitch to stay in place. Yeah, I could modify it, but I really didn’t want to whack up a perfectly good hitch if I didn’t need to. I also didn’t want to put my stock pipes back on either, so enter the hitch my friend offered me.
I called him and it was still available. But then, the virus crap came into play in March and my wife put me under spousal house-arrest; I was never able to get back out to his place to get it – until today. Took the ride out to his place in the a.m. on the KLR, strapped the hitch to my rack, and came back home.
Unfortunately, he had no recollection of who had made the hitch, or even where/when he got it. There are some pieces missing, and it’s certainly a little different in the way it mounts. At this point, I’m not sure which way it goes, so take what you see in the pix with a grain of salt.
The two up rights are marked with an “L” and “R”, but also have a “D1” stamped on them. Kinda weird that they have two holes at the top that I assume is supposed to bolt to the bike somewhere. My HitchDoc supports has one hole and bolts to the rear bolt of the bag mount.
The rear of the hitch has a pad with 4 threaded holes that I assume some type of receiver attachment bolts to. The pad also has a “D1” stamped on it.
So, do any of you old trailer draggers have any idea who might have originally made this thing?
Because of the orientation of the "D1" on the rear pad in the following two shots, I think this is the way it is to be mounted up to the bike.
Anyone have any knowledge of this thing?