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Has anyone adapted a BOB trailer to a unicycle?

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    DonO
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    When my wife and I tour on our tandem (one wheel per person) we often
    pull a one wheeled trailer (okay, that makes 1.5 wheels per person).
    The BOB (Beast of Burden - see attachment) trailer is especially good
    for single track, and would be great on a long distance uni trek.
    Pulling a BOB, instead of wearing a pack or pulling a two wheeled
    trailer, would have two major benefits:

    1. more stable without a pack
    2. nobody would say, "hey, look at the dork on the tricycle", if you
    were pulling a two-wheeler.

    So, has anyone tried adapting a BOB to the seat post of a uni for long
    distance touring?

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  2. abbabibble
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    you know what? you may be on to something here... but then it wouldn't
    be a unicycle...

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  3. Jimwahhh
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    would the BOB really actually help with balance or anything? if not then
    it pretty much is still a uni

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  4. markf
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    how would you attach it? i've thought about this, figured it'd be more
    stable front to back but harder to turn. never could figure out quite
    how to attach it.

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  5. markf
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    how would you attach it? i've thought about this, figured it'd be more
    stable front to back but harder to turn. never could figure out quite
    how to attach it.

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  6. phil
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    Ben Chambers from Devon made a unicycle trailer; it attaches to the
    unicycle with a clamp and universal joint below the seat. Could you
    make some kind of adapter for the yak to attach it further up?

    http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29169

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  7. Seager
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    you could ride it no problem as long as you didn't hit it with the
    cranks.

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  8. johnfoss
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    USA founder Bill Jenack attached one of the early Cannondale bike
    trailers (called Buggers at the time) to a unicycle, probably when they
    first came on the market. This was in the late 70s. But those trailers
    had 2 wheels, so didn't need a sophisticated hitch.

    Tim Bustos has (had?) a BOB trailer, but I don't know if he did any
    work to hook it up to a unicycle. It needs to rotate left & right, but
    have a rigid connection to keep it from twisting (falling to the
    sides). It would probably make for an interesting ride.

    I thought that "Articulated All Wheel Drive Tandem" linked above was
    pretty funny. How come the rider with no steering ability has
    handlebars, and the "driver" has none? 🙂

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