DIY single wheel trailer
06-17-09 | 11:40 AM
#26
Non-Spandex Commuter
Joined: Jul 2008
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From: Olathe, KS
Bikes: Trek Soho S
Thanks for the help! Those other designs are nice, and the seatpost hitch is so tempting, just for simplicity's sake. But I feel that they look somewhat more lumbering and less stylish, so I need to have the hitch lower down, unfortunately. I am currently entertaining the idea of buying my own welding gear, there's some stuff quite cheap around here. Probably for about as much as it would cost me to have someone weld two of these trailers together I could buy my own equipment.
06-17-09 | 12:38 PM
#28
Trailer Nut
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 152
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From: Central Scotland
Bikes: Viking Urban Trail. Schwinn Spoiler
Here ya go Rock_Ten,
This is what I got a mat to weld up for me the other week. It still needs to be tested out but I haven't gotten round to it as iv'e been busy constructing my new BIG trailer plus adding a wooden box etc to a trailer I bought the other week.
Hitch (rose/heim joints) on bike to recieve trailer. One on each side of wheel.
The trailer hitch part I had my mate weld up - (still have to attach frame to it).
Frame will be clamped (until welded) to the white stem that revolves.
Keep yer fingers crossed that itall works this time
Tom
This is what I got a mat to weld up for me the other week. It still needs to be tested out but I haven't gotten round to it as iv'e been busy constructing my new BIG trailer plus adding a wooden box etc to a trailer I bought the other week.
Hitch (rose/heim joints) on bike to recieve trailer. One on each side of wheel.
The trailer hitch part I had my mate weld up - (still have to attach frame to it).
Frame will be clamped (until welded) to the white stem that revolves.
Keep yer fingers crossed that itall works this time
Tom
06-24-09 | 08:06 AM
#29
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Joined: Nov 2007
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I now have a welder (for £20!), and enough scrap metal to make the trailer. Now all I need to do is learn how to weld properly!
Today I picked up four Royal Mail post-bike front baskets, so that's some good tubing to use for the basket of the trailer.
Today I picked up four Royal Mail post-bike front baskets, so that's some good tubing to use for the basket of the trailer.
06-24-09 | 08:45 AM
#30
Trailer Nut
Joined: Oct 2008
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From: Central Scotland
Bikes: Viking Urban Trail. Schwinn Spoiler
Regards
Tom
06-24-09 | 09:08 AM
#31
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Hmm, I've just been outside cutting up the baskets, but I'm not sure what length to make it. Most single-wheel trailers have a cargo area that is between 640mm and 700mm long. I can make this one up to 90cm long quite easily, but I wonder about the handling. Maybe I should go for a smaller size - after all, this trailer is meant to be a small and narrow one, to be honest it's primary purpose is to be eye catching and make me look capable in my role as a cycle courier (the only one in my city). I can always build some bigger two-wheeled trailers in future. I'm just having a look around to see how long people made DIY single-wheeled trailers.
