Patent ID: 7552936

Claim:
A motorcycle carrier comprising: a nose piece; a rear piece longitudinally spaced apart from the nose piece; laterally spaced apart side pieces connecting the nose piece to the rear piece and forming a tire opening with an opening width and an opening length selected to receive a portion of a motorcycle front tire and to not allow the front tire to fall through the opening; a downward facing mouth in the nose piece for receiving a trailer ball having a flattened top surface and a diameter D, the mouth having: a cylindrical shape; a ceiling at the top of the mouth; a ceiling flat portion surrounding a center of the ceiling; a base at the bottom of the mouth; and a center of the mouth between the base and the ceiling; at least one retainer residing near the center of the mouth and protruding into the mouth at least half the diameter D below the ceiling to retain the trailer ball residing in the mouth so that cooperation of the ceiling flat portion with the flattened top of the trailer ball resist pitching and rolling of the trailer ball in the mouth and holds the carrier in a generally horizontal attitude.