About Patience (My bike trailer)
Sep. 30th, 2005 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urbpanIt's been asked before, and it was just asked recently, and I'm happy to let you know:
I got my bike trailer from a Eugene Oregon company called BicycleRevolution. They have in recent years become affiliated with a folding-bike company called Bike Friday. The model I purchased is called "The Shopper", and is still listed as costing 200 dollars on the website, which is how much I paid for it several years ago. That's less expensive than any other commercially available cargo bicycle trailer I've seen. There may be one-wheel trailers that are a little cheaper, but they have no lid, and don't hold as much. My trailer holds four bags of groceries (and then some--I often bungee a bundle of tp or a bag of pet food to the lid after filling the insides) and closes up to be water tight. Its rated to carry 100 lbs, and I've gone over that amount before. It pulls uphill without any difficulty, and tracks well behind the bike. The only hassle is that a sharp left turn at a high speed, or a big bump that hits only one wheel will turn it on its side.
Having the bike trailer allows me to shop for relatively large objects, or a lot of groceries or othe items (a couple cases of beer, for example) without needing a car. I named my trailer "Patience," because I reasoned that if I'm going to put another thing on the road, it should be patience. My goal now is to get a bike trailer that acts as a tow truck, to pull a disabled bike. I may have to build one, using Patience' frame and some wood. When people behind me see "patience" displayed on the back of it, I believe they actually think for a moment, and slow down a little. Or maybe I'm kidding myself.
But since I put the name on the trailer, I get honked at less.
I got my bike trailer from a Eugene Oregon company called BicycleRevolution. They have in recent years become affiliated with a folding-bike company called Bike Friday. The model I purchased is called "The Shopper", and is still listed as costing 200 dollars on the website, which is how much I paid for it several years ago. That's less expensive than any other commercially available cargo bicycle trailer I've seen. There may be one-wheel trailers that are a little cheaper, but they have no lid, and don't hold as much. My trailer holds four bags of groceries (and then some--I often bungee a bundle of tp or a bag of pet food to the lid after filling the insides) and closes up to be water tight. Its rated to carry 100 lbs, and I've gone over that amount before. It pulls uphill without any difficulty, and tracks well behind the bike. The only hassle is that a sharp left turn at a high speed, or a big bump that hits only one wheel will turn it on its side.
Having the bike trailer allows me to shop for relatively large objects, or a lot of groceries or othe items (a couple cases of beer, for example) without needing a car. I named my trailer "Patience," because I reasoned that if I'm going to put another thing on the road, it should be patience. My goal now is to get a bike trailer that acts as a tow truck, to pull a disabled bike. I may have to build one, using Patience' frame and some wood. When people behind me see "patience" displayed on the back of it, I believe they actually think for a moment, and slow down a little. Or maybe I'm kidding myself.
But since I put the name on the trailer, I get honked at less.
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Date: 2005-09-30 02:40 pm (UTC)I always wondered how non-car people handled the transport of big bags of pet food.
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Date: 2005-09-30 03:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-30 06:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-01 01:05 am (UTC)A downfall of this kind of trailer is that there's no place to put a bumpersticker...