Carting Trail Bike

[jueylea]

Does anyone have any idea what sort of weight you can load on the tail gate with it down and safely transport?? I know plenty seem to run with the gate down and trail bike loaded, rear wheel on the gate. None I have sen have been tritons though.
Looking through the manual it states at one point, do not weight the gate, whatever that means?

[Austblue]

I'd guess that it'd have to be load rated but to be safe you could always get a length of channel to sit the bike on so the load is in the tray not on the gate.

[dezman]

I load my motorbike in the back with the tailgate down, and i haven't had any problems yet

[Boxa]

I have run a 600 Honda quad bike on it fine, only because I didnt have my trailer though.
My old hilux tailgate was load rated to 100kg. So I use that as my rule of thumb.

[Mud16]

I use to load my 250 on to the tail gate and had no problems

[andyj]

I had the MWF on mine and it didn't break

[jueylea]

Hilux load rated at 100kg must be a good starting point, I better stop sitting on it at 140kg though.
I like the idea of running a channel, would certainly take a lot of load off the gate. Last thing I want is for the cables on the gate slipping from their crimped mount, gate dropping and smashing on the tow bar along with the poor bike?
For those interested who have the hard top, the tie down points at the front are poorly located for the tie downs from the bars of the bike. I have simply run a length of chain between the 2 points at the front. This allows you to hook onto the chain so that the tie downs clear the corners of the hard cover. You need to keep enough slack in the chain to allow it to come over the wheel or else you don't quite get a firm mount. Once you tie off the rear tyre to the rear tie points it goes nowhere.

[High Country]

I cart various quads on mine with no hassles - both rear wheels sitting only on the tail-door..........

Not my prefered way of doing things, but somedays ya just gotta do what you've gotta do...........

[Mantis]

I have pics in my profile of my quad in the back of my Triton, even went 4WDing with it in there, makes for good fun when the trail ends for the Triton, just unload the quad and keep going....

[Berg]

I've had 2 bikes on the back plenty of times with no problems, apart from being prone to stone chips when it's down.