Instead of bungees, use either heavy rope or nylon straps. It won't be perfect, but it should be more stable.

Cool!

This is what I do, sorry for c/p what I put on the flickr page.


Click on the image to see more pics of it.

This is my lil' brother posing in a glorious way to better show the hitch I just finished making to carry bikes around with my bike on my trailer!

He was courageous enough to lend his bike to the first try. He tried to do some dangerous moves, but it was holding pretty tight.

Basically it's a recycled piece of wood that I attached a car bike mount to. To anyone interested, MEC carries it for about 16$CAD.

Wow!
Definately cool.
I've been trying to think of something like that, but got mentally stuck on having to use my Burley Flatbed trailer. Shows ya' how bright I am.

But I have two bikes with racks that, that would probably work on.

Today I took four bike frames with zero wheels down to the local bike co-op, 15 minutes of slow, careful riding away from home. Carried them in my trailer which is a metal frame built around a 45-gallon plastic bin.

My neighbor and I (mostly my neighbor) are continually acquiring used bikes that can be stripped of their useful parts in order to keep slightly better bikes running. These ones had very few parts that would be of interest to anyone, so I suspect the bike co-op will bring them to the metal recyclers.

just get a quick release and mount it on the rack.

^ this is how baby bikes are made.


hawt...

don't know about towing. But once saw some real pro type, hooking up another bike in tow with a heavy looking rider. The rider on the second bike was barely pedaling. The first rider was doing all the work for two. Can not a similiar workout be done on a tandem without the rear rider barely exerting him/herself.

That's Ok because then you get even MORE bicycles

Used to have a trailer on a bike back in the 70's, homebuilt hitch constructed back before trailers were very common, but I built the hitch similar to some of the motorcycle hitches that placed the attachment point for the trailer behind the rear wheel and slightly below the axle, used an automotive style CV joint from an old FWD car, (I was a mechanic, what else would I use?) worked great as a trailer hitch, even if it was a bit heavy.
relation here is that I had to 'tow' a friends bike home for him after he trashed the front rim, and it worked out that the forks matched up perfect with the crossbolt on the hitch I made so I was able to loosen it up, slip the forks in and tighten it together.

also, a couple weeks ago, my son, two son-in-laws, and I road out to Campau lake while the girls all drove to spend the day swimming etc, on the way home my son in law had a blow out on the rear that split the tube and ripped the tire bead so there was no patching it.

since everyone we could call was still at the lake or on the way home, we ended up taking the front tire/tube off the bike installing it on the rear rim, then slipping the forks over the rear axle of the other bike so they could ride it as a three wheeled tandem, son and son-in-law rode it 12 miles home, was the funniest sight to watch them get used to it. They got it under control in the first couple miles, and it tended to erode the funny factor so the rest of the trip was pretty much a normal ride.

Ken.

Yeah, but there's no way that towing another bike is going to be faster or easier than simply riding the bike that you are towing directly. It is one thing if you really need to have two bikes - for example, if you plan on loaning one of the bikes to someone else. But the original author of the post was going to ride the towed mountain bike himself. Surely you aren't saying that you can go faster towing a mountain bike on a road bike than merely riding the mountain bike directly? It's true that on the road bike you would have the benefit of slick tires, but I wouldn't think that that would make up for the extra weight of two bikes plus the trailer.

I don't know about that. With my xtracycle I can throw a bike upside down in a freeloader with the handlebars hanging over the ground and strap the front wheel in the opposite side, it really isn't much slower than riding unloaded and I am guessing that once I put an 8 speed internal on the back and have more than one gear option I will be able to ride just as fast.

That being said, towing a bike with one wheel tracking behind sure is slow.

Ok... It was requested that I put these pictures in this post, too, so here ya go!

Towed my wife's new bike home... 20 miles!





got lots of looks, comments, double takes, pointing, etc...

Even someone calling me a jerk for hogging two bikes and not giving him one! *laughs*

I use bailing wire to attach a hub to the rack... I think it would have worked better with my other rack, as it had more tie-down points... I used two cargo straps to the handle bars to stabilize it some more and keep some stress off the bailing wire. The front tire is strapped to the side of the towed bike using my bike lock. Also put a loop of tie wire around the tire and pedal to keep the pedal from rotating and hitting my back tire.

It handled fairly well, but let the bike move a little too much side to side, so after 20 miles I was pretty tired... I think it would have been better to tie the hub down to a section of 2x4 and tie that down to the rack. But all-in-all it worked very well, including dropping off a couple curbs and cutting across the grass in a couple places.

Now that's just crazy talk right there!

Definitely thinking outside the square.
How many car drivers ran off the road trying to get a second look?