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Message: [QUOTE="Smit-Dog, post: 715760, member: 25436"] I'll take a stab at a few... 3 & 4) Bike shoes are well worth it! As far as the angle, you're somewhat limited by the interior width of the trailer (taking into account the wheel wells), and how many bikes you want to haul. I have a 6x12 with 3 bikes shoes, and room for a 4th. I have mine angled so that the rear tire is about 6"-8" from the wall. If you are going to mount a fold up bunk to the passenger wall, this will also take up some space. I'd mount the folding bunk and cabinets first. With a 7' wide, you could probably get away with mounting the bike shoes at a more of an acute angle to allow some space to squeeze around the rear of the bikes. But this will limit to some extent the number of bikes you can ultimately get in the trailer. You have to ask yourself a few questions: Is it a big deal to squeeze around the bikes, and Is 3-5 the max number of bikes I'll ever want to put in the trailer, or do I want to be able to pack 5-7 bikes in there? With the bike shoes at an angle, you can get the bikes extremely close. The handle bars of one bike sit over the seat of the bike next it it. The best bet is to mask off a footprint in your garage with masking tape to match the foot print of the usable space in the trailer. Get 4,5,6... bike shoes and bikes, and line them up, then take measurements of the bike shoes. Be careful not to mount the shoes too close to the wall; the lever on the shoe has to extend out and away from the shoe in order to get a big bite of the clamp around the front tire. 7) The diamond plate, ATP, works fine in 1/16" thickness. Todd (MX-727) did his trailer in 1/8", but if you call around to a bunch of trailer manufacturers, they all put in 1/16" without a problem. About $100 per 4x8 sheet. [/QUOTE]

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