Just bought me a BOB trailer to pull behind my Windsor Tourist. Trailer will be used for heavy commuting as well as my first tour this year. I would like to see some pics of other such arrangements so I have an idea how to load my rig.

Thanks!!

Don't have any pics of the inside loaded, but one advice is be careful with hard things like tent poles, they can rub right through materials if they rub against other hard things due to vibration of the trailer...

I just couldn't resist

Love it!!

Doug, your Christmas tree trailer pic is funny.

I have one just AFTER Christmas. Here's the accumulation of years worth of unused decorations, on top of my weekly trash run to the dumpsters:



Steve, you should be fine with a BOB. I have less than $80 bucks in my single wheel trailer and usually end up with 45-60 pounds of groceries in it once a week. Look on "crazyguy" and do a journal search term for trailer and you will find quite a few pics.

The single wheel can't be loaded like a double wheeler with the weight balanced leaving little weight on the skewer. I've played around with heavy stuff and a scale. Although all of the weight is suspended between the rear bike and trailer wheels THERE IS more weight placed on the trailer wheel if it's placed in the back of the trailer. Side to side balance is far more important.

I've towed some pretty weird things in my trailer, such as bikes. OK, maybe that's not so weird. Here it is towing a desk chair.

My brother in law has an electric motor powered trailer and I have another version of a self powered - a Burley trail a bike but the power source is very unreliable And gets very noisy if it has too much sugar.

This is the BEAST.

I still have some work to do on both trailer and bike... sometime.

But, I also use small battered kid's trailers from time to time, depending on what my expected load is.

The GF pulling my trailer:

Ready for Touring



Bob

I own a Burly Co Op era Flat bed and a Carry Freedom City . Pictures , from web.

https://www.bikesandtrailers.com/Comp.../Flatbed-z.jpg

https://www.adfc.de/files/1/134/144/5...rryFreedom.jpg

Bikes .. https://www.cyclofiend.com/working/20...clark1008.html

https://www.cyclofiend.com/working/20...clark1110.html

Carry Freedom Y-Frame stuck under that.

My BOB trailer on BC's Kettle Valley Rail Trail / TransCanada trail last summer, just north of Coquihalla Canyon.

Instead of using the BOB drybag, I found a 90 litre drybag that fit the trailer perfectly. Even though I didn't pack it that full, it is a real luxury to pack because there is so much easily accessible space. The only other mod was to zip-tie on some water bottles (which was very handy) and to replace the crappy stock tire with a Schwalbe tire that rolls better and has some puncture resistance.



This ended up being a really rough trail for a cx bike and trailer, although the combo works great and dirt roads and fire-road trails, particularly if I want to carry a lot of gear, like on fly fishing trips in the backcountry.

bob+mercian on new zealand (6mos) and oztralia (1 year) tour.

Dogs and groceries!

I like to combine my BOB with front panniers for an even distribution of weight around the bike and for quick daytime access to rain/wind gear, food and tools. I'm carrying no more volume or weight on the trailer than I would be with a pair of Orlieb size panniers on the rear.

TransAm tour 2009, Gibbon's Pass MT alternate....



photo by Carl Pytlinski

Heh, that's the model trailer I have now… alright for groceries, but mine's starting to get a bit on the flimsy side for touring duty.

I just use it for groceries, etc. For touring, I use panniers.