Bicycle - the oldest invention of mankind itselfby itself is a unique device. In order to expand its functionality, people began to use additional designs, and bicycle trailers belong to them. Bicycle trailer helps to solve some problems during transportation.
What is the use of the bike trailer?
- The trailer can significantly increase the quantity and weight of the transported cargo, while the bike does not cause any damage while moving, because the whole weight is redistributed to the trailer itself.
- Very comfortable trailers for transporting children, the journey will seem comfortable and easy.
- Overall loads can also be easily moved if the bike is equipped with a trailer.
A touring one-wheeled bicycle trailer makes it easy to carry cargo when traveling even along narrow lanes, and it’s easy and simple to move along rough terrain with it.
Bike trailer for a child hasdesign requirements are stricter than just transportation of any goods. Such trailers should be equipped with seat belts, shock absorbers. Anyone who constructs a structure independently should remember this. The industrial children's trailer for a bicycle must pass a tough test that is not inferior in importance to a car.
Kinds
The most commonly used two-wheeled trailers, usually the design for the transport of children or cargo.
One-wheel models are flexiblea tandem, so to speak, is an additional seat, which has an independent drive, a chain drive on the hitched wheel. Such a trailer moves obediently enough along a straight part of the way, but when cornering, difficulties arise: the rear wheel begins to drag, rather than roll.
Another model that is much less common iswhen the trailer is attached to the front. The bicycle does not drag a trailer, but rather pushes it. This design is the most complicated, and it is not easy to manage.
How to make a trailer for a bicycle
In the summer, many people are replacing the stuffyuncomfortable transport on a light and easy to manage bike. Many people use the trailer for transportation to make the trip exciting not only for adults, but also for children. Buying a design costs money, so many craftsmen invent it in their own way. So how can you assemble a bike trailer with your own hands? We describe the easiest way.
What basic materials will be required for work?
- Three tubes with a diameter of 2 cm, each with a length of three meters.
- Bushings.
- Copper basket or MDF sheet (from which you can build a basket).
- Two lock nuts.
- Thread chaser.
- Wheels.
- Shock absorbers.
- Seat belts.
Sequencing
When the material is prepared, you can safely, notdoubting success, get down to work. The basis of the trailer will serve as a frame. To create it, you just need to prepare a drawing in advance. On it the pipe will be curved. Take a large sheet, draw on it the shape of the future frame, it is better if it is an oval. On the drawn lines bend the pipe.
Одна такая изогнутая трубка послужит дном для trailer, from the other bend back like a sled. These two elements need to be soldered together. Solder the sleeves on the edges of the frame in places where the wheels will be mounted. Install the wheels themselves.
The next step is to install the bottom.Now you need a copper basket. Instead, you can take a thick sheet of MDF, but the disadvantage of this material is that it quickly gets wet. For the bottom it is better to use moisture-proof materials, suitable, for example, laminated plywood. The side walls can be made of thick tarpaulin or thin wood panels.
If the trailer is used to transport children, install shock absorbers. Equip comfortable seats with seat belts.
Bike connection
Припаяйте к прицепу металлическую трубку, при whose construction will be fastened with a bicycle. In addition to the trailed construction itself, it is necessary to make a knot connecting the trailer with the bicycle, the so-called drawbar. You can make it from an inch pipe and metal plates. Pipe to bend in the L-shaped form. Solder the metal plates in place of the corner, insert a bolt between them, which will play the role of a yoke. Install the lower bolt perpendicular to the upper one; it must cross the hole in the pipe and join the lower clamp.
Do not forget the hitch. On the bike must be present trunk. Install one hinge part on the drawbar and the other on the trunk.
In such a simple way is built a bicycle trailer with his own hands. He will be able to serve you on family trips for transporting children or for moving small loads.
Exploitation
Прицеп для велосипеда совсем не сложен в operation. Anyone who has tried to use it can confirm this. When riding on a horizontal surface, a trailer filled with children is not felt at all. It does not hinder movement, does not interfere with the management, maneuverability.
Только следует помнить о том, что сам прицеп wider than a bicycle, so do not forget to leave more space when turning or when driving in narrow places (between trees, along the paths). Keep in mind that when turning the trailer for a bicycle moves along the inner arc. At the exit from the hill, it is the trailer that accelerates the bicycle, but this problem is easily solved by proper braking.
There are problems when driving on loose soil oruphill. Of course, this is due to the weight of the trailer, because it weighs with the load, whatever one may say, no less than 50 kg. And yet with the trailer to go a little easier than if you carry the same weight on the trunk.
Безусловно, передвигаться по асфальту с прицепом much simpler, but we can safely say that the cycle trailer is also convenient for driving on dense dirt roads, cobblestones, grass. With such a design, you can even overcome shallow ruts, because the gap between the bottom and the road is not so small. There is no risk of overturning, even if on a rough road in places one wheel will be higher than the other.
Проблему для передвижения создают сыпучие подъемы.The bike along with the trailer too quickly buries them. It is difficult to overcome any obstacles with a trailer, be it logs or ditches. Riding along narrow paths is also extremely inconvenient, the bike hardly fits in turns and touches everything that sticks around.
In general, a bicycle trailer is a great help. Having thought out the route in advance, you can have fun and easily go on an interesting journey with the whole family.
