Cheap trailer wheels
10-07-19 | 08:42 PM
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10-07-19 | 10:46 PM
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10-07-19 | 11:51 PM
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Yes but they didn't have adult children with lawyers to preserve their inheritance while looking for someone to pay for mom's/pop's nursing home/EOL care. It's the perfect scenario: let mom enjoy the fresh air until she lands face down or impaled on those sharp edges. The kids don't suffer yet cash the checks (just in time to pay for that retirement condo in Miami). It's a planned strategy.
10-08-19 | 05:00 AM
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10-13-19 | 03:04 PM
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...if you do this again,, buy a surplus wheelchair at goodwill or the salvation army. A significant number of homeless guys here use wheelchairs as gear transportation vehicles. It's not difficult to pull the wheels, hubs, and axles from a wheelchair, and they're designed to bear a heavy load. Please do not take one from someone who needs it. 
Look for one not with solid tyres, but inflatable tyres to save on weight.
The problem with attaching your trailer hitch to your seat post is that all the forces from the trailer are directed pretty high up, relative to COG. So most serious trailers are designed to attach at the rear hub/dropout/axle area.
Look for one not with solid tyres, but inflatable tyres to save on weight.The problem with attaching your trailer hitch to your seat post is that all the forces from the trailer are directed pretty high up, relative to COG. So most serious trailers are designed to attach at the rear hub/dropout/axle area.
@dedhed cycling without age was actually my inspiration when I saw it on TED talks so many years back. Finally got off my butt and this is the result. No inheritance in sight
On the on the initial test drive it turned and stopped fine. The only issue was when I applied the brakes during a turn, the hitch spun around the seat post and it was beside the seat post rather than behind it.
11-29-19 | 03:19 PM
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Well I used my kids as guinea pigs and think I solved the trailer hitch problem, but I still don't have a set of cheap wheels! Using fronts off of other bikes
I had a racking issue between the ball and the hitch arm because I need to remove the arm to get from the back yard to the street. I added crush sleeves between the square tubes so I could tighten the snot out of the bolts.
The saggy hitch issue was solved by adding a stout steel bracket below it. I think I can put my rear rack back on now because everything stays where it should.
The hitch swinging around my seat post was solved by making my own adapter with nice ugly teeth that bite into my seat post.
I had a racking issue between the ball and the hitch arm because I need to remove the arm to get from the back yard to the street. I added crush sleeves between the square tubes so I could tighten the snot out of the bolts.
The saggy hitch issue was solved by adding a stout steel bracket below it. I think I can put my rear rack back on now because everything stays where it should.
The hitch swinging around my seat post was solved by making my own adapter with nice ugly teeth that bite into my seat post.
