Utility Cycling - Cyclist Takes Bed Along in Homemade Trailer

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papaelf
11-02-08, 08:42 PM
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/17/cyclist-takes-bed-along-in-homemade-trailer/


TOWING his sleeping quarters behind him in a compact trailer, an eighteen-year-old cyclist of Menominee, Mich., recently traveled nearly 1,200 miles to Boston, Mass., economically and comfortably. Post cards that he sold to curious spectators paid for his supplies during the fourteen-day journey. Streamline in shape, the sturdy trailer is a homemade product of his own design. He is shown above demonstrating his sleeping quarters to an admiring hotel doorman.


tsl
11-02-08, 09:54 PM
A more contemporary version is here: http://www.tonystrailers.com/nomad/

papaelf
11-02-08, 10:12 PM
I'm kind of curious about how he did the hitch and what it all weighed. With a single speed coaster brake bike and 85 mile daily average it is very impressive.


Sixty Fiver
11-02-08, 10:16 PM
The article is dated 1940... I don't think that many ultralight materials were used.

I wonder if the kid's last name was Merckx ?

:lol: