Help: Cycle trailer

On 07/27/2005 12:49:53 Gordon Taylor <[email hidden]> wrote:

Ordered a cargo carrying cycle trailer (bykaboose Geko) last week from a

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internet company for a cycling trip starting Saturday. Phoned company
this morning to be told that it is out of stock!

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Anyone any idea where I can get a fairly cheap trailer delivered near Bath
before Saturday? Alternatively I am happy to travel to pick up a suitable
trailer.

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I can get the Carry freedom city trailer locally for £250 or I could get
a Burley trailer for £260 from Wiggle. I was really looking for a big
storage area and therefore the carry freedom city is not suitable. I was
also not looking at spending that much!

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Any ideas? If none are forthcoming then it will probably be the Burley
from Wiggle.

Got a Croozer Cargo here, used for demo only £100 including delivery,
also got a Carry Freedom small Y Frame, has the stubs for attaching a
plastic box and straps, 3 hitches. £180 inc. delivery.

Email me through the website if you want more info.
--

Buck

I would rather be out on my Catrike

http://www.catrike.co.uk

Buck said:

Got a Croozer Cargo here, used for demo only 100 including delivery,
also got a Carry Freedom small Y Frame, has the stubs for attaching a
plastic box and straps, 3 hitches. 180 inc. delivery.

Withington Cycles as do a large selection of trailers. Croozer Cargo also 100
new inc delivery.

They also have this

http://www.withingtoncycles.co.uk/product.php?id=293&node_id=1638

at 70 but it's not a nice (high hitch for starters).

For my money, it's still hard to beat a BoB YaK, but they are expensive. The main
advantage of two wheeled trailers over the BoB should be the greater load, but
both the ones above only carry 30kg (same as the BoB). Though they are half the
price or less.

Arthur

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In message <[email hidden]>, Gordon Taylor
<[email hidden]> writes

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Dear All,

Ordered a cargo carrying cycle trailer (bykaboose Geko) last week from
a internet company for a cycling trip starting Saturday. Phoned
company this morning to be told that it is out of stock!

Anyone any idea where I can get a fairly cheap trailer delivered near
Bath before Saturday?

Could try Bikes and Trailers

<http://www.bikesandtrailers.co.uk/>

Though I'd ring them and se what they can do. I found the very helpful

--
Chris French

in message <[email hidden]>, Gordon Taylor

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Dear All,

Ordered a cargo carrying cycle trailer (bykaboose Geko) last week from
a
internet company for a cycling trip starting Saturday. Phoned company
this morning to be told that it is out of stock!

Anyone any idea where I can get a fairly cheap trailer delivered near
Bath before Saturday? Alternatively I am happy to travel to pick up a
suitable trailer.

I can get the Carry freedom city trailer locally for £250 or I could
get
a Burley trailer for £260 from Wiggle. I was really looking for a big
storage area and therefore the carry freedom city is not suitable. I
was also not looking at spending that much!

I used a Bike Hod for many years. A great urban trailer, not such a good
fast touring trailer because of high centre of gravity. If I was going
for high speed touring now I'd get a Weber Monoporter. Edinburgh Bicycle
certainly had them in stock ten days ago, because I had a very careful
look at one.

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My current project is building a new cargo trailer. It is slowly taking
shape (each set of joints takes a couple of hours to mitre and braze)
or at least it was until I ran out of Oxygen..

Still, it is up to the point where I can fit a wheel to one side and it
starts to look like it means business.

...d

Simon Brooke said:

I used a Bike Hod for many years. A great urban trailer, not such a good
fast touring trailer because of high centre of gravity. If I was going
for high speed touring now I'd get a Weber Monoporter. Edinburgh Bicycle
certainly had them in stock ten days ago, because I had a very careful
look at one.

If was after a trailer for touring (And touring alone) I'd buy one of these:

http://www.extrawheel.com/

I've not towed a Monoporter so I can't fairly compare, but (admittedly
unladen), this thing had absolutely no effect on the bike at all. I was
always aware of the Yak (Partly 'cos it rattles like hell unladen), but
just having it there affected the feel of the bike on tight turns. The
Extra Wheel had no such effect.

It is of course, of far less use in town as a practical trailer than any
of the other monowheel trailers due to the inability to carry large
single items in any useful manner.

Jon