Amanda P
Legendary Member
- Location
- York. Well, York-ish...
It had its maiden voyage to work and then onto the supermarket last week, but that's rather boring.
Yesterday I had some problems with my bike and had to come home on the bus.
So today, I hauled that bike home on the trailer with another:
It's still painted in slobbery red oxide primer until I'm sure it's exactly how I want it. When I'm sure it'll go to be powder coated.
It's made from scrap tubing I got from a place in Elvington where they make steel furniture frames and the like. Thin-walled where I could get away with it, thicker where I couldn't (the wheel outrigger thingies). Fillet brazed construction - it's hard to do neat welds on round tubes this thin. The steel cost me £3 (to the steel place's tea fund). Gases and brazing rod probably £10; wheels about £15 I think from Burton Bikes (an Ebay seller who seems to be inactive just now). They came with horrible knobbly tyres on, though; decent ones cost me another £10 each. It's probably taken me around 10 to 15 hours' work.
I built it specially to be big enough to carry another bike on it, or to take three folding crates of groceries, or two trombones, or a guitar+amplifier. (It might be able to carry other stuff too...)
The triangulated struts were inspired by Alex Moulton's designs, and they make the trailer very stiff as well as providing handy places to hook bungies or ttie ropes. There's a bit of perforated plate on the back for attaching lights.
If you remove the two clevis pins, the drawbar telescopes out and comes off. Remove the wheels and then the whole package fits in a slot 4" wide for storage.
I'd just got home from work when I took these, and the dog was desperate to get my attention...
Yesterday I had some problems with my bike and had to come home on the bus.
So today, I hauled that bike home on the trailer with another:
It's still painted in slobbery red oxide primer until I'm sure it's exactly how I want it. When I'm sure it'll go to be powder coated.
It's made from scrap tubing I got from a place in Elvington where they make steel furniture frames and the like. Thin-walled where I could get away with it, thicker where I couldn't (the wheel outrigger thingies). Fillet brazed construction - it's hard to do neat welds on round tubes this thin. The steel cost me £3 (to the steel place's tea fund). Gases and brazing rod probably £10; wheels about £15 I think from Burton Bikes (an Ebay seller who seems to be inactive just now). They came with horrible knobbly tyres on, though; decent ones cost me another £10 each. It's probably taken me around 10 to 15 hours' work.
I built it specially to be big enough to carry another bike on it, or to take three folding crates of groceries, or two trombones, or a guitar+amplifier. (It might be able to carry other stuff too...)
The triangulated struts were inspired by Alex Moulton's designs, and they make the trailer very stiff as well as providing handy places to hook bungies or ttie ropes. There's a bit of perforated plate on the back for attaching lights.
If you remove the two clevis pins, the drawbar telescopes out and comes off. Remove the wheels and then the whole package fits in a slot 4" wide for storage.
I'd just got home from work when I took these, and the dog was desperate to get my attention...