A recent post made me want to share and see how other people are carrying and towing voluminous stuff with bicycles. Show us your #carryshitolympics, or just regular hauls.
For example, I live on an archipelago and have a kayak and a SUP that I carry around with bike trailers. Depending on my destination and what I’m carrying, I use an Aosom trailer with a flat bed, but most of the times I can get away with a lighter Burley Travoy. Here are some pictures.
This turned out to be rather unstable, but it was fun for an afternoon.
What kind of instability are we talking here? Was it trying to slither on the pavement?
The second trailer had a poorly implemented hitch design that let it tilt side to side far more than I expected. I didn’t make any consideration for it being single track. In hindsight I should have had the lean angle mimic the first trailer and therefore the bike, but I didn’t have much time and didn’t test any of it before I set out for the afternoon.
The whole thing stayed straight as an arrow, but after twenty metres that seat was repurposed as cargo space for the rest of the ride so nobody got sick from becoming a weeble wobble.
I love this
I love hauling things with my bicycle. I used my bicycle as part of my move over the summer.
We were moving around 2 miles so it was pretty practical
Moving the Christmas trees was sketchy as the trailer wanted to fish tail :)
If one bike is good, two must be better. Right?
Not that voluminous today, but I have XL panniers on about half the time. Here they are on the ice bike:
Hase Pino Tour with the stoker position removed. I put on an Aventon cargo tray that someone abandoned at the LBS. Burley Travoy for additional lightweight capacity. This load was supplies for a Juneteenth cookout party for 20 people.
For very heavy or large loads, I have a Surly Bill trailer.
Carrying a boat of this size on the Surly Bill is strongly contraindicated. :D I had a lot of weight in the stern, but the load shifted and things got squirrelly.
Got a fairly normal real pannier rack with a bag on each side and a small one on top. Plus a backpack but almost never need to use all of those at the same time even for a weeks shopping. Of course bags of carrots, potatoes, oats and rice is pretty high on food density.
Great post, I am pinning this to encourage more comments.
I have a Madsen Bucket Bike, kinda like this but the previous model and not electrified:
My kids are too big for it now (sort of, I can still jam them both in if it’s an emergency) but they used to love riding in it. I keep thinking I’ll sell it but for big grocery runs or errands in the neighborhood where I need more tools than I can carry on a pannier, I still get lots and lots of use out of it.
I find the hard sides and permanent fixture to be really good for hauling lots of stuff, vs soft removable bags that maybe I don’t remember to bring with me or that squash around and make it harder to load. The downside is, it’s a lot to get used to and the fact that the bike itself empty is like 100 pounds makes it a no-go for long trips.
I like that trailer. I do not haul stuff with my bike, mostly because my dog travels with me 99% of the time and I do not have a great way to haul her with me too. She is 8 1/2 and not as quick as she used to be.
I have been looking at building my own trailer like the one in the image I quoted so she can ride in it, or run as she feels fit to do.
