help in choosing right toy hauler

[bman]

For whatever it's worth I'll throw my two cents in. We purchased a 2014 Quicksilver, 28x8.5, FBR, in August 2015. We researched and shopped for three years before we drove over 800 miles one way to purchase our unit. Answers to your questions; 1) We tow with a Goldwing trike, my wife's, an ST1300, in the cargo area. I feel confident you'll be able to tow two baggers. As long as you buy the right size unit. 2) We tow with a Chevy Express 2500, 6L, 6 speed conversion van most of the time and a Silverado 1/2 ton, 6L, 6 speed pick-up. (It does have a heavy duty towing package). The only time we have issues is when its windy, which is expected. 3) When we started looking my wife was set on specific criteria for our next trailer/RV. We had a 34' motorhome and towed a trailer. She wanted a front bedroom and a decent size bathroom. I wanted light weight, so we could tow with a 1/2 ton, no rubber roof and no laminate!!! As you might guess we had significant issues with these in our previous RV's. WE absolutely love this thing. Yea we gave up a few amenities and made some compromises, but that's what you do if your determined to have certain things, as I indicated. 4) We adjusted the living area to suit our needs a little, We removed the dinning area seats, we use the table with fold up chairs and removed the fold down couch. We figured if we needed the sleeping area we could always use air mattresses. For additional seating we use camping chairs, nice ones not the typical camp fire type. We do have a queen tip out but need an air mattress to make it tolerable to actually sleep on it, other wise it's a sitting/reading area/lounge area. The factory pad is just to thin. One of the things we love about the front bedroom bed is it is an actual home full size queen. The factory mattress pretty well stinks, so we replaced it the first weekend with a full memory foam mattress, house type. As far as how we feel about our purchase, It is fantastic! Yes it does cost a little more than some others, but you get what you pay for. I can honestly say there are other manufactures out there that make some nice toy haulers. You just have to make sure they offer the main things your looking for. Our concerns were weight, empty and loaded, lamination, roof, layout, durability, looks and as picky as my wife and I were about what we wanted........we found it in Livin Lite! No question and most certainly no regrets.

[oprlrt]

I was going to buy the 26 ft. and my neighbor talked me out of it and I ended up buying a 22 ft. I really like it. At the time I had a dirt bike to take with me and now I have a RZR1000. It fits fine but the bed in the back has to be all the way up. So if you want to use the bed you have to unload the RZR and take the chance of someone steeling it. With the rzr in the trailer you can not lower the couch or dinette for a place to sleep. So in hind sight the 26 ft. with the bedroom in front would have been the better choice.
Lee