Towing a trailer with a handcycle.
05-23-11, 07:56 AM
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Towing a trailer with a handcycle.
Due to our van suffering a fatal engine failure, we will be car-free for the foreseeable future.
I plan to get a cargo trailer but the only hitch options are seatpost or rear axle/seatstay.
I ride a handcycle(delta trike) and neither option exists.
Money is limited and I can't afford to have a custom hitch made.
I plan to get a cargo trailer but the only hitch options are seatpost or rear axle/seatstay.
I ride a handcycle(delta trike) and neither option exists.
Money is limited and I can't afford to have a custom hitch made.
05-23-11, 01:27 PM
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Runner Pat,
It would help if you said what make/model trike you have...and better yet, to post pictures of it and a "good one of the rear end."
I think it was Peter C, or Peter_C, something like that, that has a Sun delta recumbent trike over on BROL that has a trailer on it. He had to do a little mod to hook it up. I seem to recall he posted pictures and explained what he had to get/do to mod it...and it wasn't real involved. Do a search over there in the “TRIKE” area for Sun trike mod, trailer, etc. https://www.bentrideronline.com/messageboard/index.php
I also have a Sun delta and I've been thinking a Bob Trailer. The way the Suns rear end is it should be pretty easy to mod something up.
Bob
It would help if you said what make/model trike you have...and better yet, to post pictures of it and a "good one of the rear end."
I think it was Peter C, or Peter_C, something like that, that has a Sun delta recumbent trike over on BROL that has a trailer on it. He had to do a little mod to hook it up. I seem to recall he posted pictures and explained what he had to get/do to mod it...and it wasn't real involved. Do a search over there in the “TRIKE” area for Sun trike mod, trailer, etc. https://www.bentrideronline.com/messageboard/index.php
I also have a Sun delta and I've been thinking a Bob Trailer. The way the Suns rear end is it should be pretty easy to mod something up.
Bob
05-23-11, 02:08 PM
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Thanks, Mr Gnome, for the photo suggestion. 
*smacks forehead*
https://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...lerearview.jpg
https://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...rticalview.jpg
It's a Invacare Pro XLT handcycle.
I'll hold off on registering over at BentRider unless I have to. I prefer to get advice, if possible, "at home".
*smacks forehead*https://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...lerearview.jpg
https://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w...rticalview.jpg
It's a Invacare Pro XLT handcycle.
I'll hold off on registering over at BentRider unless I have to. I prefer to get advice, if possible, "at home".
05-24-11, 04:13 AM
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Runner Pat,
When I said some good pics, I didn't mean advertisement quality.
Good photos!
I'd think you could just use some hose clamps, or lock collars, or "U" bolts to clamp a bracket to the frame. It would be bent up on the ends with holes drilled through them to run a skewer through. (Myself, I'd go for the lock collars for the looks.) Then use tubing as a long spacer between the brackets to run the skewer through.
I could be wrong, but I'd think that would work just like it was hooked to the rear of a two wheeled bike like it was designed to.
I know some of the trailer tongue are off set, so maybe you'd have to go with a Bob trailer which is straight so it would clear the rear wheels. Talk about that, there could be some wheel clearing issues anyway, so you'd have to make sure your bracket was long enough so it didn't. Then depending on how long, I'd also add some cross bracing.
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BTW, I'm now retired and living in Florida. I was born and raised in Vallejo, Ca. Lived there all of my life other than 10 years I moved with my job to Sacramento, Ca. Then moved back to Vallejo with it when the Sacramento plant closed. Oh yeah, it was driving big rig for 26 years for Colombo French Bread and had a number of runs that went by Turlock, Ca. over the years. Now I'm thinking about moving back to the SF bay area, but it will probably be in Petaluma, Ca.
It's 6 AM and wife and I are off to take the dog out on his bike run.
Bob
When I said some good pics, I didn't mean advertisement quality.
Good photos!I'd think you could just use some hose clamps, or lock collars, or "U" bolts to clamp a bracket to the frame. It would be bent up on the ends with holes drilled through them to run a skewer through. (Myself, I'd go for the lock collars for the looks.) Then use tubing as a long spacer between the brackets to run the skewer through.
I could be wrong, but I'd think that would work just like it was hooked to the rear of a two wheeled bike like it was designed to.
I know some of the trailer tongue are off set, so maybe you'd have to go with a Bob trailer which is straight so it would clear the rear wheels. Talk about that, there could be some wheel clearing issues anyway, so you'd have to make sure your bracket was long enough so it didn't. Then depending on how long, I'd also add some cross bracing.
Do you follow me at all here?
BTW, I'm now retired and living in Florida. I was born and raised in Vallejo, Ca. Lived there all of my life other than 10 years I moved with my job to Sacramento, Ca. Then moved back to Vallejo with it when the Sacramento plant closed. Oh yeah, it was driving big rig for 26 years for Colombo French Bread and had a number of runs that went by Turlock, Ca. over the years. Now I'm thinking about moving back to the SF bay area, but it will probably be in Petaluma, Ca.
It's 6 AM and wife and I are off to take the dog out on his bike run.
Bob
05-24-11, 07:11 AM
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Thanks, that gives me some ideas.
Have to run down to the local OSH/Home Depot/Lowe's and see what they have.
Have to run down to the local OSH/Home Depot/Lowe's and see what they have.
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trailer for handcycle
I work at a handcycle company. we had a guy come in not too long ago asking about trailers for handcycles. now there was one trailer that I have heard of but not had much luck finding. it is called an S cargo. from what i was told it is a folding trailer with two arms attaching to the rear of the bike rather than just one. maybe you will have more luck finding it
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07-01-11, 01:11 PM
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I'll bet it wouldn't be much trouble to attach it using pvc irrigation fittings. I've seen a lot of things made out of them and have done an attachment or two for a rear rack on a tadpole trike and for holding front lights on a trike. I recently did one for a Catrike Pocket so that a regular rack could be attached to the seat frame. Even if the trailer has two attachment points it would be simple enough to run a piece of irrigation pipe between the two sides and then attach it to the back of your Invicare cycle frame with hose clamps. Just put a piece of rubber tube between the frame and the hose clamp to protect the paint.
