Trailer with folding bike

[cmcanulty]

Here are some pics of my trailer. I have since done a new seatpost tongue (no camera at present) that uses whitish flexible plumbing plastic tubing. It all collapses and fits in suitcase with bike for air travel. At airport I unload bike and trailer and put my other gear in suitcase and off I go. Total cost $2 for hinge pins to make the axle split for travel. All the rest from construction dumpsters.

[Rob_E]

That's pretty cool. And does your whole set up come in under 50 lbs to avoid the extra baggage costs? And what about personal luggage? Do you have a smaller case for clothes that fits in the larger case? Or do you carry a backpack or maybe stack something on the rack?

I've been pondering this, too. I was thinking that if I could carry the suitcase on my bike, I could land at my destination, assemble the bike, and head out, but then I couldn't figure out how I'd carry all my gear and a 2nd suitcase, but this could solve that problem if you can pack a 2nd case small enough to fit in the first.

[cmcanulty]

Yes I carry a soft light suitcase for clothes that fits in the trailer or sometimes just a cardboard box and toss it at airport. Bike easily gets under the 50 lb limit with the trailer wheels and axle. Anything else heavy I carry on or put in other piece. Wish I had my camera so I could post the tongue design, very cool, strong, and light weight. Uses hose clamps to hook a large eyebolt to plastic pipe and other end then clip to seatpost with a U bolt lined with inner tube that slips right over seatpost. At suitcase end a carribiner hooks to nylon straps (the free orange ones out of construction dumpsters) that circle suitcase. A black rubber bungeee holds suitcase to axle. The pipe isn't rigid PVC but hot water tubing that is semi rigid and you can bend at will with a hair dryer. It is sort of translucent white. Dumpsters have everything you need. I am attaching a pic I found on web of the eyebolt shock absorber I incorporated , neat idea but I forget who posted it.Somewhere in bikeforums utility group. My seatpost attachment though I like the u bolt better as I can slip it over seatpost in no time. I have a bolt pin that slips through the rubber gasket (mine is a old auto hose from aauto garage trash) and then slips in the u bolt and is held tight by friction