It’s always great to see all of the clever ways that people rig up there bike trailers for utility and adventure. This one is quite clever and really looks quite natural to the setup of the BOB Trailer. Too big a fish might pull in the whole trailer. If you are looking to hook a BOB Trailer, we’ve got them at 10% off through the end of January.
In Michael’s words:
I love my bob trailer, not only is it my main work transporter, it also doubles as my recreational vehicle for fishing and camping. I used PVC pipe and hose clamps to make the pole holders.
As a purveyor of BOB Trailers, we’ve often looked in disdain at Nashbar’s knockoff single-wheel trailer offering at about half the price. We’ve also spoken and heard about quite a few Nashbar trailer customers that have not been happy with the performance. There must be a few happy customers our there, but we’ve never heard from them.
Brian had the most novel approach to the issues he had with his trailer my modyfying and rebuilding into something unique. We’re excited to see how Brian’s trailer continue to evolve. By the way, we’re running low on interesting bike trailer photos here in the winter months. If you have anything of note on a hard drive, please send them on in.
In Brian’s word’s:
This was a Nashbar trailer that the fork failed on. My main use for this trailer will be for trail work/maintenance a few miles from my house and running errands so this will be a project in work for awhile. The rear rack carries a rack bag most times and my plans are to add a dynamo tire driven light system with battery storage.The fork came from the trailer shop and if I add rear suspension I will probably use the Ibex shock. Thanks for looking and when I get it finished and painted I will send another picture.
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Marty of The Jersey Pedaler sent in this photo of his Carry Freedom Y-Frame Trailer. If those ties had a pillow strapped to the front, it could make a decent headrest.
Carried 3x8ft landscape ties at 25# each from garden center 4 miles home
As a life-long cyclist, I have found many times that I’ve wanted or needed to carry one bike with another. The main reason I’ve needed to transport another bike is because I need to get the out of commission bike down to the bike shop. But there are all sorts of other logistical reasons where bike hauling capabilities come in handy. Shuttling kids bikes, picking someone up at the airport, working at a bike shop and picking up bikes up for repair and the list goes on.
Bike trailers are a great way to transport bikes. We’ve messed around with a variety of techniques for mounting the bike to the trailer including, using a fork block and letting the rear wheel pull on the ground, mounting a roof rack tray to the bike trailer (as shown below) or simply loading the whole bike into the trailer if the trailer is big enough.
Tom sent in a great example of a trailer adapted to this purpose:
After finding myself shuttling my kids’ bikes to and from school because of varying schedules, I decided to use an old Schwinn trailer frame, a Burley hitch and a couple of roof rack components from my car to build this bicycle-carrying trailer.
Here is an interesting adaptation of our in-house built bike trailer, the Wandertec BONGO. We designed this trailer with modification and customization in mind. It is a great platform for quite a few different uses. And it always seems that there are more unique uses for it. Using it for transporting a wheelchair behind a mobility scooter is yet another unexpected direction.
Our customer Thom describes:
Several months back I picked up a trailer from you folks. I believe I was working with Robert? I came up with this idea how cool it would be if I could take my wheelchair with me when I was out on my mobility scooter. I asked a lot of questions and then bought one. The end results are steller! The only part I added was an 18″ piece of 1″ X 1″ channel. I Drilled two holes in it and I was good to go. It will hook to any Pride Mobility scooter. NO welding or drilling on the scooter. It’s all there, stock. In this case, SIZE MATTERS. if you hooked this up to a small scooter, it may burn it up. It tracks killer. Left turns are WAY better than right turns but that with a little thought is no problem.
Think of what people in retirement communities could do with this set up……. I see money to be made! Ice chest, Groceries, Dogs, Stuff……..
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Batman, who apparently also moonlights as a keyboardist, sent in this photo of his bike trailer setup. I’m guessing that the somewhat blurry, dark photo was taken as Batman was jumping on his bike to chase after a criminal in between gigs. Or perhaps it was intentionally blurry to hide some of its alternative crime fighting functions.
Happy Halloween from the Bike Shop Hub!
The theme for this weeks posts seems to be followups on previously submitted bike trailer posts. Last week I posted quite a few images of Steve’s innovative jumbo trailer. He sent in a few more images showing the rig he set up to haul his wagon around with.
Appropriately enough, he’s got a new Surly Troll, the new all purpose utility bike with a bend towards heavy-duty touring and utility use. Stu here has been riding around on one. A few images of the Surly Troll with Stu’s custom “mystery” rack. Megan rode one with Cass in Costa Rica and Cass liked the look of it so much he got his hands on one and wrote a nice review.
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A few days ago I posted about Fabian’s fantastic trailer train. Now it has grown into a fabulous dragon beast. I think Fabian is on his way to setting some sort of world record here.
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Fabian previously sent in some photos of his eye-catching, baby blue bike trailer. Now he’s added on two more trailers just in case you weren’t watching him go down the road already.
For a long time I’ve wanted to tow a multi-combination trailer set with some serious road presence. As things currently stand, front to rear dimension is 6 meters (19.7feet). Surprisingly it tows better with three trailers than two, tracking perfectly strait at speed and most importantly under hard braking. The turning circle is a small 2.5 meters (8 feet) which allows access to any bicycle path.
It’s proven to have great load carrying capacity as is evident by the photos. As we speak, i’m in the process of adding a fourth trailer for extra carrying capacity.
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Stephen sent in these great photos of his bike trailer solution. This is a bike trailer designed for big loads and big time fun with the kids. With kids riding along, a trailer like this is only safe for slow, casual, smooth rides through the park or other low or traffic-less areas. But with all of the open space it looks like the kids really enjoy using their imagination in how they set it up.
An interesting aspect of Stephen’s design is the integration of the BOB Trailer fork into the trailer. Because the BOB trailer is designed for single-wheel bike trailers, the fork only allows for side-to-side and up-and-down rotation of the bike trailer. A two-wheel trailer also requires the ability for the bike to rotate side-to-side in relation to the trailer. With a single wheeler, this rotation would not work as the trailer would flop over this. Stephen was able to achieve both this side-to-side and pivoting rotation in his fitting between the BOB fork and his trailer (See picture immediately below).
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