New Instructable!
As repeatedly promised, I have finally put up an Instructable for my dorky bicycle trailer! I hope you will find it informative and entertaining.
There are plenty of other great bicycle trailers on Instructables, but I thought I'd post my own. Some of the key points: no welding is required for this trailer, and it is built (mostly) from items from Home Depot and spare bicycle parts.
This trailer was built over time, with a couple of iterations. A few times in this Instructable, I'll use the phrase, "Ask me how I know..." Most of these lessons were discovered during failures of the trailer on the road... these were cases when "the wheels coming off," is more than a figurative phrase.
Considering I started on this project about a year ago, I'm glad I finally got it posted. You can see the multiple iterations that were needed to solve problems. Basically, since I'm done with thesis, this was the next thing on my list.
posted by Bats @ 6:30 PM
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Now the onus is on me not to be a lameass. Man, now that I'm hours away from signing up for a job at the Hancock, I am soo tempted to ride a full fledged dorkmobile there for my commute.
To put this in context, I built this in my grad school days, when the equation was having more free time than money. Nowadays, as a working stiff, I have more money than free time, so I'd probably go and buy one.
If you want to feel moderately hard-core about it, this website has some pretty cool looking trailer kits--I was tempted to go with these, at one point, but was dissuaded by the annoyance of shipping to Canada. Also, there are loads of cool, well-engineered trailers out there--like BOBs.
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