Hey everyone,

I was at my place in Michigan this weekend. I am currently building up a fixie out of a 1986 Varsity frame. Its a lightweight lugged frame with aluminum bullhorns. so it weighs like 10 pounds or so. I was towing this on my burley flatbed behind my 1968 Schwinn Varsity. When I reassembled the trailer, I apparently didn'y tighten the wheels up enough, and the left skewer shook itself loose. SO I get to a point on a 25mph road where the road goes down into a river valley. It is downhill for about 1/3 of a mile (steep). I got the rig up to 33 mph when I started to feel the trailer bounce around alot, since the load weighed less than the trailer itself. Then I the trailer hit a bump, go up in the air,and then I heard dragging. I thought I flipped the trailer, that would have been a first. I braked quickly, then a 20" wheel with an offset hub, went flying downhill past me. I watched as it rolled downhill and then I pushed my riginto the grass next to the road. Some people pulled up in a Mercedes and gave me a ride half way down the hill to where the wheel rolled into some brush. I walked back uphill and reattached the wheel. I made the dropout was okay, and that both wheels were on extra tight and i continued downhill. I'm just glad it wasn't more serious. I bought a set of old steel 27's from an old no name japanese 10 speed to use on this thing for the winter. Getting back up that hill with 37 gear inches was hard work.