Author Topic: I carried this on my bicycle (Read 215394 times)

clarion · « **Reply #125 on:** 21 March, 2012, 08:29:32 pm »

This evening, I saw a chap carrying a McClaren buggy on the top tube, handles sticking out like tri bars.

MattH · « **Reply #126 on:** 21 March, 2012, 08:33:55 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 21 March, 2012, 07:03:18 pm

Bonus points for single speed, even if it was just cardboard.

I'm considering trying out my fixed hack bike with the trailer. My steel audax bike that I have been using to pull it is in bits at the moment whilst I'm sorting out some paint issues, so trailer-based food shopping will have to be done either on the fixed or dig out my MTB. I'm not sure how nice it will be using the fixed though, both from a smoothness point of view and the fact I'm running about 85", which would make accelerating up the (admittedly modest) hill from the supermarket with a loaded trailer something of a challenge. I do have proper brakes on the bike, so wouldn't be trying to use leg braking to slow the rig down.

TimO · « **Reply #127 on:** 21 March, 2012, 08:43:28 pm »

Quote from: MattH on 21 March, 2012, 08:33:55 pm

... and the fact I'm running about 85" ...

I think Vince is about 60", which makes things somewhat easier!

Valiant · « **Reply #128 on:** 23 March, 2012, 02:10:17 am »

Forgot to put this on this thread.

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #129 on:** 23 March, 2012, 06:37:53 am »

I didn't see him riding, but as I got on the Northallerton train last night there was a chap getting off (with a random stranger helping with the bike, and another random stranger passing him a dog bowl out of the door) with a bike, a backpack, and carrying a small terrier-type puppy....

I really wanted to know how he carried that on his bike.

Mr Arch · « **Reply #130 on:** 24 March, 2012, 05:50:47 pm »

I carried this, on Tiddles, to meet Arch at work on Thursday afternoon. Wasn't sure the Brommie block would take the weight but it survived. An educated guess would suggest that Tiddles was carrying about 120-130kg with me on board.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #131 on:** 24 March, 2012, 07:37:45 pm »

Good work! But what is it?

Mr Arch · « **Reply #132 on:** 24 March, 2012, 09:16:35 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 24 March, 2012, 07:37:45 pm

Good work! But what is it?

Bloody heavy, that's what it is!

I'd like to think of it as a Gattling gun, double barreled.

But it is only a scrap built polishing tumbler made with wood, MDF and a stainless steel rotisserie from some sort of commercial roasting/barbequing thing that has a big motor, gearbox and toothed belt drive inside.

In the front bag was all my weekend kit plus laptop, full tool kit in the saddle bag and several kilos of stripped tyres in the rucksack.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #133 on:** 24 March, 2012, 09:30:31 pm »

That's impressive device, and even more impressive is the put-togetherness of it. Plus, it's the only YACF machine that Hillaire Belloc might have rhymed about.

Whatever happens, we have got
The MFWHTBAB gun and they have not

STMS · « **Reply #134 on:** 26 March, 2012, 10:39:06 am »

Quote from: David Martin on 27 January, 2011, 05:05:59 pm

I prefer lying down on the job..

Cycle trailer by davidmamartin, on Flickr

I actually strapped a 2'6 mattress to my back with 16mm cooker wire, i only transported it 1 mile and the wheals under my arms were horrendous with the flapping in the wind. I even got pulled over halfway and the two policemen laughed; but as i was in full control of the bike and on a quieter residential route they let me on my way.

Arch · « **Reply #135 on:** 26 March, 2012, 05:01:18 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 24 March, 2012, 09:30:31 pm

That's impressive device, and even more impressive is the put-togetherness of it. Plus, it's the only YACF machine that Hillaire Belloc might have rhymed about.

Whatever happens, we have got
The MFWHTBAB gun and they have not

Anyone but us would have spent the £40 or so on a cheap tumbler off Ebay. But it wouldn't have been able to take different sizes of container (note the moveable stop to prevent different containers from shifting off the rollers), or contained Lego technic tyres....

tiermat · « **Reply #136 on:** 26 March, 2012, 05:07:51 pm »

Quote from: MFWHTBAB on 24 March, 2012, 09:16:35 pm

You ARE Heath Robinson AICMFP

Mr Arch · « **Reply #137 on:** 26 March, 2012, 10:35:11 pm »

Quote from: Arch on 26 March, 2012, 05:01:18 pm

Anyone but us would have spent the £40 or so on a cheap tumbler off Ebay. But it wouldn't have been able to take different sizes of container (note the moveable stop to prevent different containers from shifting off the rollers), or contained Lego technic tyres....

You found one on Ebay for £40?
Why didn't you say? It would have saved me so much fun!

Pingu · « **Reply #138 on:** 26 March, 2012, 10:43:09 pm »

IMG_5307 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Got plenty of space from the motons

Mr Arch · « **Reply #139 on:** 26 March, 2012, 10:48:00 pm »

Did you have to ride leaning over at that angle too?

Pingu · « **Reply #140 on:** 26 March, 2012, 11:54:14 pm »

More or less

Arch · « **Reply #141 on:** 27 March, 2012, 06:38:00 pm »

Quote from: MFWHTBAB on 26 March, 2012, 10:35:11 pm

Quote from: Arch on 26 March, 2012, 05:01:18 pm
Anyone but us would have spent the £40 or so on a cheap tumbler off Ebay. But it wouldn't have been able to take different sizes of container (note the moveable stop to prevent different containers from shifting off the rollers), or contained Lego technic tyres....
You found one on Ebay for £40?
Why didn't you say? It would have saved me so much fun!

I can't remember now, but there was one, briefly that was cheapish.

I wouldn't want to get in the way of your fun....

Wobbly John · « **Reply #142 on:** 27 March, 2012, 08:58:24 pm »

Quote from: MFWHTBAB on 26 March, 2012, 10:35:11 pm

You found one on Ebay for £40?
Why didn't you say? It would have saved me so much fun!

Pity I live so far away - there's a tumbler with a 1/2 hp motor and two 10" drums in the workshop doing nothing.

Mr Arch · « **Reply #143 on:** 27 March, 2012, 10:40:48 pm »

Quote from: Wobbly John on 27 March, 2012, 08:58:24 pm

Quote from: MFWHTBAB on 26 March, 2012, 10:35:11 pm
You found one on Ebay for £40?
Why didn't you say? It would have saved me so much fun!

Pity I live so far away - there's a tumbler with a 1/2 hp motor and two 10" drums in the workshop doing nothing.

I go past your neck of the woods when I visit my God daughter!

TimO · « **Reply #144 on:** 10 April, 2012, 04:06:28 pm »

Not terribly exotic, but I got all of a well loaded trolley onto the Trailer a short while ago.

Click image for bigness.

Extra bonus points for not using a single throwaway bag. Everything was either just loaded in loose, or in two reusable shopping bags (you can see one orange towards the back of the trailer).

There was a lot of liquid, in various contains, a dozen bottles of beer, 4L of detergent, 26 cans of assorted drinks, 8 bottles of Lassi, a couple of large bottles of Innocent fruit juice, 4 pints of milk etc. This made for an interesting ride, because as you pulled away the liquid resisted, and then as it caught up, it pushed the entire bike forward. Initially I thought there was a fault with the bearings, and it was periodically rubbing, but eventually I realised it was just the mass of liquid, which was probably two thirds of the load. I really wouldn't want to carry a large barrel of liquid on the trailer, it would be a truly odd sensation.

Bodgeit · « **Reply #145 on:** 20 April, 2012, 04:36:26 pm »

My effort. Not a patch on most of these but raised a few smiles

MattH · « **Reply #146 on:** 20 April, 2012, 05:18:02 pm »

Your bike sucks.

Biggsy · « **Reply #147 on:** 20 April, 2012, 06:34:51 pm »

Pingu, what the hell are those things? I'm disturbed!

SteveC · « **Reply #148 on:** 21 April, 2012, 08:26:40 am »

Quote from: Biggsy on 20 April, 2012, 06:34:51 pm

Pingu, what the hell are those things? I'm disturbed!

They look like fat balls for feeding to birds.
(I'm sure I could have put that better)

S

clarion · « **Reply #149 on:** 21 April, 2012, 08:44:07 am »

I thought they were the testicles of the Titan warriors he had defeated, taken home as trophies of battle.

Or else they might be bird food.