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Old 06-25-13 | 04:22 PM
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turbo1889
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From: Montana U.S.A.

Bikes: Too many to list, some I built myself including the frame. I "do" ~ Human-Only-Pedal-Powered-Cycles, Human-Electric-Hybrid-Cycles, Human-IC-Hybrid-Cycles, and one Human-IC-Electric-3way-Hybrid-Cycle

I have not yet pulled a boat with my bike but I have pulled loads of the weight range you are talking about and even considerably more. For pulling a trailer made to be pulled by a truck or car with a bike the thing to use is a two wheeled pup trailer with a ball hitch behind the bike to take the tongue weight of the trailer and also have a place to mount a 12V battery and electric trailer brake controller. Anything more then a couple hundred pounds of weight on the trailer and you need trailer brakes otherwise applying the bike brakes especially on a downhill will just jack-knife your bike in front of the trailer and the trailer will drag or run over the smaller lighter bike in front of it.

You can make such a pup trailer to fit your bike by re-bending and welding onto the handle of a cheap hand cart used for moving trailers around on a level surface by hand like this:



With some clever wiring and a variable pot you can rig up the electric trailer brake controller to your rear brake cable, set the trailer brakes to engage before the rear brake on the bike does.
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