Thanks @chaadster!

Yes, I agree, it would add a little more function to have the box on the front. But with the way the frame was configured, it worked out better to attach it the rear tube and the cross tube. It was hard to find a container that was the exact width of the frame so that I could easily anchor it to the sides. Plus then the webbing would have been interrupted down the middle by the cross tube, and would have been less effective.

I'm pretty happy with the webbing so far. It definitely helped to keep it light. I should probably credit warmachine though, I got the idea for the webbing from him.

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Got it painted and a deck today. Think I need to strength it a bit. Have various containers depending on purpose. Not sure what to do on wheels yet.

Aosom Elite II cargo trailer. Assembles quick and easy, and holds a good amount of stuff and weight.

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My Tourist pulling the BOB home from work.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ih...fJqWJUPsc4L7YQ
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I need to drill some holes to put a cob tail light on back, and get a cargo bungee net or fasten the lid. And probably recycle and junk. Wasn't sure for maiden voyage. May or may not need to add side ties, I am trusting at moment it wont move side to side on bars, time will tell.

Here's my trailer I built last december. I used it to haul 3 loads up to 250# or more, up to around 45-50mph, along with several lighter loads at those speeds. Man do I wish I had trailer brakes.

Tires are 26x1.95"... The bed is 48"x19", overall width is 32" to fit in the back gate. The main frame rails are 1.5" square tubing, side and cross rails 1.25" square tubing, and the tongue is mostly 1" tubing. The hitch end of the tongue is 1.25" square tubing with spacers welded on the inside to have a near zero play connection to the hitch pin.

The corners of the trailer have short sections of corners of 4x4 box tubing, that I used to screw the pegboard and wood to. Overall this is a very solid trailer.

Here it is all painted for the rain season, cuz it lives outside. Rubber undercoat, bedliner bed and some frame, etc.

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/651/3...148f9f80_z.jpgIMG_2897 by Tony K

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/697/3...d0f075ff_z.jpgIMG_2871 by Tony K

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/451/3...38a31a32_z.jpgIMG_2856 by Tony K

I like a pin with a spring loaded ball on the bottom end. Hooking up takes about 10 seconds, put pin in and connect 12V hot wire.

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That frame is long gone, long story but I had braced the rear end with C-channel and box tubing, and doubled up the left side gusset for the trailer hitch. It was replaced with a frame stretched in a similar way but no trailer hitch, so I haven't used the trailer since winter. My new frame however, is going to have a quarter inch thick left side gusset and has .100" wall 7/8" tubing in the rear end, so we won't be seeing any issues!

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/661/3...2e69e6af_z.jpgFlux core welds

I lost the trailer once on a left turn when it was fully loaded, and the tongue snapped in the middle. it started rolling into the oncoming lane where there was a car coming... almost hit a corolla.... :innocent: I fixed it out on the road with a "splint" of wrenches and gorilla tape that took me 30 minutes to make, and 30 minutes to remove :D

I want to take this bike on a lengthy road trip however, I probably won't be taking this trailer. It is just too heavy and massive. I'm trying to decide between a monowheel trailer or a leaning sidecar... one more wheel only.

Here is my beach trailer. I ride it to the beach, the drag it across the soft sand, and tow it on the firm sand to where I want to set up.

An old Schwinn kid trailer, stripped, with wood floor.

The first iteration was nearly impossible to drag on deep, soft sand with the 20 x 1.75 tires.

I replaced the tires with 20 x 4 1/4" rear tires from a Schwinn OCC Sting Ray. I just forced the large tires onto the small rims. Used the original small tubes, there was no way I could get the fat tubes in there. I don't think the tubes are doing much, just a little bit of support for the tire bead, at best. I had one tire in my parts pile, and had to buy a 2nd one. I lost quite a bit of width squeezing those tires onto the narrow rims.

Much better with the new tires. Only bogs down in the ruts left by Jeeps and pickups.

The floor is thin pallet wood. The sides are incomplete, still using the kid trailer sides. I made the sides removable, attached with pins, instead of bolted in in, for quick disassembly.

Here is the trailer I purchased last January and have since modded, a Cycle Force Trail-Monster cargo trailer.
I bought this because it has a 300 pound hauling limit having complete, long welds rather than just spot welds.
The first thing I got rid of were the wheels because I didn't need 20" wheels with balloon tires that were quick release. The wheels that came with it were really junk so I replaced them with the 16" Tuff Wheels used by Bikes at Work that roll beautifully and the load is more stable being lower to the ground. I ultimately took off all of the railings and saved 10 pounds or 25% of the trailer weight and then used an under-bed storage unit that fit perfectly on the floor of the trailer and was just higher than the wheels and just used bungie straps to hold it down. This way I could use the trailer for small things or take off the lid if I hauled something higher than the top and it works well and rides quiet. Then I found the sides from a crib and used one to put on top of the under-bed storage unit and it gives me an additional 6" on the sides and a foot in length for when I need to haul bigger things.
I have no car, so my bike along with this cargo trailer is how I get around and haul everything I need to haul.
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You put smaller wheels on it? Doesn't that make it tilt backwards while hauling it? I know my trailer is like that with 16" wheels. I'd rather have 20" wheels for it, with a full-width solid axle.

There was a patch of broken glass in the bike lane for like 3 weeks, city wouldn't do anything about it. So I hitched up the trailer and went out there with my broom and cleaned it up. :)

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I put smaller wheels on the trailer to make it more stable because it would more easily flip with the 20" balloon tires on it, a complaint made by many who bought the trailer. The 16" wheels are exactly the same that are used by Bikes at Work on their heavy duty trailers.
https://www.bikesatwork.com/bike-trailers/features
https://www.bikesatwork.com/static/i...eel-detail.jpg"The nylon-composite Skyway Tuffwheels® used on our trailers are extra-strong and never require truing. They use standard 16" bicycle tires and tubes, and roll on precision replaceable sealed cartridge ball bearings."

My trailer is not perfectly level, but when I checked it this morning with a level, half of the bubble is between the lines and that's plenty good enough for me. The trailer pulls nicely and just hums along and is very stable (I often pull tall loads). Plus, I would have to pay more than twice as much to get a trailer with a 300 pound weight limit. So I am very happy with this trailer now and it suits my needs nicely.

I've done that. I've noticed glass being broken specifically where bikes ride and where it cannot easily be seen.
We have a place where a MUP goes under a highway and on one end there is a sharp turn off the street into the underpass and then a slope where you would coast. This past summer somebody dumped glass there, not a broken bottle but glass that had been deliberately broken up, and on a bike you would have never seen it until you were in the midst of it. Fortunately I came from the other end with my trailer and a guy was sweeping it up.
It's sad when somebody is so mean spirited to do that.

Yeah my trailer's wheels (InStep kid trailer) are similar to those. I rigged up an extension off my bike's left dropout to lower the hitch down, which levels out my trailer even with the 16 inch wheels.

I'm thinking of having a solid steel bar machined with notches to make it fit into the QR latches, and then attach the wheels to those, which should increase the trailer's weight capacity.

In Portugal there is a funeral directors that offer a bicycle trailer hearse to see you off in.

Stopped to fix a flat about 10 miles out on a 70 mile trip.

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Odd that they got Benjamin Netanyahu to ride the bike in that pic? :twitchy:

Perfect for bike-camping and taking my Macaw for a ride around the neighborhood.

What's the strap around the top of the thermos for?

Raleigh Folder with my pup trailer...
 

Converted a kid carrier into a pup trailer. His favorite thing in the world!! Pack the cooler and head to the beach!https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...bcf3a658c4.jpg

My working BOB trailer and big bin
 

I use my BOB trailer and large bin to do landscape gardening work in my community, which is very hilly. I have a small electric assist to get me up the steepest hills with all the weight in my bin. https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...864fe80ce6.jpg

The two kickstands really help for stability, and I also have a Flash Flag which sticks out into traffic to keep the vehicles at bay. It works very well.

My Bamboo Cargo Trailer
 

I also have a bamboo cargo trailer, which I had made for me in Portland, Oregon by Adam George: https://boundbikes.wordpress.com/bamboo-trailers/ I fell in love with the light and strong bamboo trailers after using my landlord's trailer, also made by Adam. So when I settled down again on Vashon Island, Washington, near Seattle, I decided I had to have one. I have used it only a few times, most notably to carry my groom and myself from the wedding to our home, being pulled by 3 cyclists, while we sat in state on a loveseat on the trailer. But now, I find I am not able to use it safely in my new home, as I would need to take it along a highway with a 50mph speed limit, and the shoulder is just not quite wide enough for me to feel safe with the cargo trailer. So I have listed it for sale in the Marketplace forum on this site.https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...b97e4a2286.jpg

And here is a photo of it being used for our wedding:
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Safety first! Getting ready to head home on the bike trailer after our wedding.




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Three cyclists were hooked up to the trailer through the use of bicycle tubes. It worked a treat!

Nice setup. I just picked up a BOB from Craigslist, and am now working on fitting an electric assist on the front end of my recumbent. Where did you mount your battery?

I mounted the battery in the front basket. You can see it in the photo. It isn't large, because I wanted to keep the bike (sans trailer) light enough to hoist onto the bike racks on the local buses here. That has helped me extend my cycling range immensely. It was a kit from Hill Topper: https://www.electric-bike-kit.com/hill-topper.aspx

I pulled my girl around for years. She loved it as well. Go for a ride? I'd ask her and she lit up and smiled big time! Never had any issues but after she passed I was reading how someone was talking of a friend whose pup got so e crud in her eyes and it got nasty and VERY expensive. Crud can fly off that rear wheel.

Alright, I said it and that's all.

take alot of pics so you can look back on them. They get so happy it's great. Having a trailer for my dog was one of the best things I ever did. Enjoy!

Some nice trailers on here! giving me some ideas for my build!

Started this the other day. Tore up an old rusted out wagon and framing it out from some scrap 2x4s. It's roughly 5ft x 2ft. I'm setting it up to cary around my pool cleaning supplies and tree trimming/landscaping tools. I'll finish it up in the next few days and snap some more photos.
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Looks Like it will be a heavy duty one...how did you make out? What did you do for attaching to your bicycle?

Here is my child carrier conversion for a grocery, camping firewood, beer & ice, and beach runner.
I am going to be staining it tomorrow, I fit it and removed the deck for staining.
I made it from a free pallet, hardware, stain and clear coat I already have and the frame comes from the child carrier we had for my boys...they have been riding for years now.

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My goal(s)

1. (Very) Lightweight
2. Keep it simple and low profile
3. Build with materials I already have on hand

Here's mine I built on an old Pacific Cycles Kid trailer (now InStep) we purchased from a thrift store nearly 18 years ago. I used the kid carrier as a beach/fishing cart after my 3 children were to big to be carried in it. About three years ago the fabric was frayed and brittle and the cruddy 16 inch tires had seen better days. I took the trailer apart and saved all the misc nuts and bolts along with the frame. Repurposed a platform I made out of Meranti plywood to carry snow ski's on top of our Traverse; cut it down to fit the PC frame, added sides and built two wheels using the 26"tire/rim sets off an old Mtn bike and 2 Maillard rear hubs I had lying around. I also added rod carriers and a flag mount. Tow bike is a Raleigh Technium 440 I converted to a single speed last year. Enjoy the pics!

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Started the cargo box; checking for fit before bolting on and painting the frame
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rebuilt the tonge
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Day before we left for the Gulf

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Maillard hub
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section of frame from a old Hobie Fish Cat
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Cart on the beach at Fort Pickens Gulf Islands National Seashore
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Two of my sons holding the fully loaded rig before heading back to camp at Fort Pickens


Best regards

Rod

How I roll
 

Bike and Trailer https://imgur.com/a/DKpcF0a

https://imgur.com/a/zXXlyuv

https://imgur.com/a/3w6izz7

Check out 70 miles w/front panniers & trailer on Relive!https://www.relive.cc/view/g37290970278

How I roll
 

Bike and Trailer https://imgur.com/a/DKpcF0a

https://imgur.com/a/zXXlyuv

https://imgur.com/a/3w6izz7

Check out 70 miles w/front panniers & trailer on Relive!https://www.relive.cc/view/g37290970278