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01-06.-2008, 02:04 PM
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building your own trailer?
Has anyone ever found any recipes online or built their own?
If so, what would be the easiest way to do it so that one can buy groceries, haul recyclables, or get a pizza, etc? |
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01-06.-2008, 02:41 PM
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Re: building your own trailer?
Ablang wrote:
> Has anyone ever found any recipes online or built their own? > > If so, what would be the easiest way to do it so that one can buy > groceries, haul recyclables, or get a pizza, etc? Easiest, fastest way is to use your Visa multitool: http://www.nashbar.com/ Item No. » NA-TLR <http://www.nashbar.com/profile.cfm?category=&subcategory=&brand=&sku=18733&storetype=&estoreid=&pagename=Show%20All%20Products> --Winston |
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01-06.-2008, 04:50 PM
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Re: building your own trailer?
Ablang wrote:
> Has anyone ever found any recipes online or built their own? > > If so, what would be the easiest way to do it so that one can buy > groceries, haul recyclables, or get a pizza, etc? Put a want-ad on your craigslist or local newspaper. I don't know where you are, but in the US it's darn tough to build stuff for less $$$ than the Chinese can make it and cart it over here. ~ |
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01-06.-2008, 07:24 PM
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Re: building your own trailer?
Ablang asked;
>Has anyone ever found any recipes online or built their >own? >If so, what would be the easiest way to do >it so that one can buy groceries, haul recyclables, or >get a pizza, etc? Hey Ablang - Do a Google Search and you'll find quite a bit of online resources from basic designs to DIY parts (bikesatwork.com) I applaud your DIY attitude over those who think it's "tough" to beat the products of Chinese Slave Labor. Umm, let's see. Do It Yourself or buy cheap crap from China and continue to feed the energy sucking monster driving up the cost of living of free people around the world. Good Luck Ablang & Best Regards Mike Baldwin |
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02-06.-2008, 01:11 AM
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Re: building your own trailer?
On Jun 1, 1:04 am, Ablang <ron...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone ever found any recipes online or built their own? > > If so, what would be the easiest way to do it so that one can buy > groceries, haul recyclables, or get a pizza, etc? There is an obscure, out-of-print book on building bike trailers, as well as various other wheeled carts: The Cart Book with Plans and Projects by William L. Sullivan, copyright 1983 by Tab Books, ISBN 0-8306-0512-6 Used book stores may be able to get you a copy. http://www.abebooks.com/ is an excellent worldwide network of used book stores. I see they have a few copies available. - Frank Krygowski |
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02-06.-2008, 01:37 AM
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Re: building your own trailer?
I won't bore you with the details of how I built my trailer, but I do think
you may be interested in my hitch. I clamped a short piece of conduit pointing rearward, onto my seat post. The trailer tongue was a matching length of conduit--I joined the two with a short length of Tygon tubing, which gave me the needed universal alignment action, and could be connected/disconnected by a hose clamp. |
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02-06.-2008, 01:54 AM
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Re: building your own trailer?
On Jun 1, 12:04 am, Ablang <ron...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone ever found any recipes online or built their own? > > If so, what would be the easiest way to do it so that one can buy > groceries, haul recyclables, or get a pizza, etc? http://bikecart.pedalpeople.com/ http://www.instructables.com/id/bicycle-trailer./ |
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02-06.-2008, 02:51 AM
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Re: building your own trailer?
On Jun 1, 12:11 pm, Frank Krygowski <frkry...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 1, 1:04 am, Ablang <ron...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Has anyone ever found any recipes online or built their own? > > > If so, what would be the easiest way to do it so that one can buy > > groceries, haul recyclables, or get a pizza, etc? > > There is an obscure, out-of-print book on building bike trailers, as > well as various other wheeled carts: > > The Cart Book with Plans and Projects by William L. Sullivan, > copyright 1983 by Tab Books, ISBN 0-8306-0512-6 > > Used book stores may be able to get you a copy. > > http://www.abebooks.com/is an excellent worldwide network of used > book stores. I see they have a few copies available. > > - Frank Krygowski I built my trailers using this book, and photocopied a few pages years ago while I had it from the local library. I even emailed the author and asked permission to upload the relevant pages (honest me), but he gave permission for only three pages, even though he has no plans to reprint the book. I have basic instructions at my site: http://drumbent.com/trailer.html http://drumbent.com/trailer_big.html (photo essay) And some blog posts of trailers built by others using the above: http://drumbent.blogspot.com/2007/03/fan-mail.html http://drumbent.blogspot.com/2007/05/fan-mail-2.html http://drumbent.blogspot.com/2007/0...a-fan-mail.html http://drumbent.blogspot.com/2007/1...t-using-my.html Mark |
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02-06.-2008, 07:07 AM
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Re: building your own trailer?
On Jun 1, 12:37 pm, "Leo Lichtman" <l.licht...@worldnet.att.net>
wrote: > I won't bore you with the details of how I built my trailer, but I do think > you may be interested in my hitch. I clamped a short piece of conduit > pointing rearward, onto my seat post. The trailer tongue was a matching > length of conduit--I joined the two with a short length of Tygon tubing, > which gave me the needed universal alignment action, and could be > connected/disconnected by a hose clamp. Bike Friday uses something vaguely similar: a short length of rubber hose with a quick release hose fitting, the kind of thing available at many hardware stores. The bike frame has a threaded boss into which the male portion of the air QR threads. The female part of the QR is mounted in the normal way on the end of the 6" hose. The QR allows rotation and the hose gives flex for turns. Releasing is a no-tools operation that takes about two seconds. But I've heard at least one account of the hose failing on a long tour. - Frank Krygowski |
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