Ouch, with that seat angle.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showpost.p...3&postcount=34 :D

lol ok. Have you at least tried a level seat?

Of course. That's where I started. I feel like I'm sliding off the saddle when it's that way, and I put excessive pressure on my arms and shoulders trying to "hold myself on". If it makes you feel any better, I'm not the only chick I know who uses this same solution to the same problem.

Hey I can't quite tell, is that a Brooks?

Simple, cheap, and effective ... nothing wrong with that! :D

Yes, a B-67.

That is one classy rig you've got there! Yeah, I've heard the Brooks can be tilted back a bit
and still be comfortable. Kind of like a butt-hammock! :D

Butt hammock or nut cracker? Lol

I'm torn about what trailer to get. First I was going to build one but I have changed my mind. Now I'm down to the burley flatbed, the Carry Freedom lg y-frame and maybe the Wicycle DIY kit to make the small flatbed. I can't find much about the Wicycle. I have one friend with a Burley flatbed and one with a y-frame and both swear by them. Each of them critcises the other one but I see good in both. I don't know that I need the size of the burley and I really like the way the y-frame comes apart. I could easily store it in my office. Any one have any strong feelings about these trailers. Of course money is the next big hitch...the Y-frame is so expensive that it keeps making me go back to the other two. I could build the little wicycle kit trailer for about $100 but I just don't know anything about it.

Well, I ruled out the Wike trailer because it won't work with my bike's frame/hub combination, and it looks like that Carry Freedom hitch would have the same problem for me. The Burley Flatbed cost me $100 because I share it with my brother. He only lives about 5 miles from me, so that works out well. It's been great.

The Wike seems very economical and I like the simplicity of the Carry Freedom design. I think you'll be happy with whichever of the 3 you end up choosing. It looks like you've narrowed it down to 3 very high quality trailers. :)

This didn't work well at all.
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ordered the Carry Freedom
 

After much deliberation I ordered the Carry Freedom. I really like the simplicity and sturdiness of the design. My friend that owns the Burley flatbed also is part owner of a Bikes at Work trailer. Those things are amazing but I don't need anything that major. My other friend owns a Carry Freedom Y-trailer and it is amazingly easy to use and I like the way it folds up. I want to be able to store it in my office because a lot of the use will be on campus for my job. Anyway...I'll let you know how I like it in a few days. I should get it by the end of the week and I plan to immediately put it to use by transporting a bunch of my supplies from the Vet School to the Med School next week for some research we are doing.

That last set of picture (from diff_lock2) is similar in concept to the hitch assembly I built back in the 70's
on mine I had the same framework on the bike (metal, with a brace to seat post though) and used a CV joint instead of the hinge and angle plate shown. which gave a nice tight 'ball and socket' joint at the hitch. advantage there was that the trailer was free to move up/down left/right but didn't have any tendancy to wander while providing a pretty tight turning radious, and keeping hitch weight low.

Ken.

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...UNP0013-12.jpg

A little something I have been working on.

Some good ideas going on there. Although I need a 2 wheeler, I just hauled home a old Huffy 10 speed thats only good for parts. I like the hitch idea. Maybe incorporate a U-Joint from the steering shaft of a car....Hmmmmmmm.

I didn't really like how the single wheel affected the handling of the bike so I added another. The only modification I had to do is remove the hitch shem so the trailer does not lean with the bike anymore. It may have problems with tipping since it is thin but I could always cold set it wider since it is cheap steel.
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i like the look of the one wheel..........maybe you can move the packs more twards the front and down some?............try to lower the center of gravity..........a one wheel trailer feels wierd and takes some gettin used to........especially once you load it

FWIW, I'm a dude (and have been told that I'm NOT small by any means) and I ride with my saddle adjusted somewhat up. No pain whatsoever. And, I've run two saddles, an unknown big huge cushy one with springs, and a moderately padded Bell saddle with a built-in blinky at the same position.

Anyway, this thread is giving me tons of ideas... maybe I WON'T do an Xtracycle...

Here is My Burley Flatbed. I am extremely satisfied with it.

The orange Edger weighs about 75-80 Pounds and is atleast 30-40 years old just got it fixed
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This is a broken Hitch mount bicycle rack, it is bent from being overloaded and will soon be replaced. I will take it to be scrapped tommorow
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Groceries
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This old Western FLyer Cruiser Frame from the 50's
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A shop-Vac
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Empty
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I can haul a second bike at last.
 

Been thinking about this for a while. Sometimes I want to bring a bike to work (I work at a bike shop) and do some serious work to it, but have to bike home. This new setup allows me to get the repair bike to work and tackle the job over a few days if necessary.

I ride fast and make sharp turns and never came close to flipping the trailer. Yet.

The trailer is by Bikes At Work and cost a bunch. But it is awesome! See it loaded with RubberMade tubs filled with pine straw on the first page of this thread.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...1&d=1191555081

Carry Freedom trailer
 

Here's a photo of my Carry Freedom trailer with my bike. I've got a small tub attached but can easily use a much larger tub if I need to haul more.

Very nice, mupedalpusher. That's an awesome looking trailer.

I agree with Dana, good looking trailer

I built this from the remains of a kiddie trailer and the bottom of a wooden crate. I figured out 2 things already: use carriage bolts to attach the hitch to the trailer (done), and move the axle to the middle of the flatbed. To do the 2nd, I need another brace, which I'll try to acquire today.

Any other thoughts? Some close-ups of the trailer are on http://www.kemenel.org/melalvai/journal/.

http://www.kemenel.org/gallery/main....serialNumber=1

Homemade bicycle trailer
 

I posted this originally in the 'Utility bike' thread, but perhaps I should've put it here.

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I've attached a photo of my lovingly made bicycle trailer that I built over a few weekends. A few bits are recycled; the wire mesh bed and the golf-cart universal joint. It is used primarily for shopping, although when I'm convinced it's sufficiently durable I may take it on a tour.

I also made a short film to demonstrate to my friends that it works.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaQJIdpVRYc
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Usually my constructions fall a little short of my expectations, but for some reason this worked out perfectly. If you remove the wheelguards it even runs upside down, which, of course, is very useful. The universal joint has three mututally orthogonal rotation axes which allows the trailer to adopt any orientation. As a result you never really feel the trailer since, apart from its inertia, it doesn't apply any stresses on the bicycle. I've carried over 100lbs on it, but I don't think I'd do that again, 60lbs is probably its ideal carrying capacity.

More recently I've added two dynamos, rectified, smoothed and regulated to produce a total of 18volts and 1amp. This drives some surprisingly bright 10mm LED arrays I put together (even at 5mph), or a small bank of electronics which supplies regulated USB power and firewire for charging ipods etc, diode-protected NiMH cells. It also takes power in from a nice 8.1volt solar panel I found on ebay, which may prove useful on a tour.

Well, I think that covers everything.

Since it has been such a boon to my life, I may eventually make a follow-up video more concisely following the trailer's development. I wish there were more homemade bicycle trailer videos on youtube.

vey nice astronomerroyal

I never tire of seeing your bike & trailer, it's just such a pretty looking combo.... it looks girlie (in a good way :o ) maybe that's also because you take such good photos. Do you have any pics of you riding it?

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Very nice trailer 'astronomeroyal' :D

I'm like you. I'm having so much fun with my own recently built trailer, I want to build another one, more along the lines like yours, out of square tubing.