I enjoyed your blog, and thanks for the advice. I have to Burley child trailers that I use for utility purposes (my boys are too big now), but I was considering a Bikes at Work for the big stuff. You inspired me to reconsider.
Best regards, Bob On Jan 27, 9:55 pm, Paul Cooley <pcoo...@cybermesa.com> wrote: > I've been through so many trailers! Now, I use my Xtracycle for most > utility hauling. I have a bicycle-based beekeeping business, and for > that, I use the Bikes-At-Work trailer. My kids ride on the Xtracycle > and I haul all my honey to the Farmer's Market on the trailer. It's a > heavy load, but I have it geared low. I also haul my equipment for > removing honeybee colonies on the Bikes-At-Work trailer. (It's a > little nerve wracking moving colonies of bees at night by bicycle, but > I've certainly proved you can be a small scale beekeeper and not own a > motor vehicle). > > I would disagree with Jim, though, about using it for more normal > utility activities. The hitch for it attaches to the bike via hose > clamps. It's not the nicest looking thing in the world, if aesthetics > are important to you. Mine is mostly hidden by the Xtracycle's > freeloaders. If you don't own a car, and want to haul absurd amounts > of stuff, they're great. If you just want to pick up groceries from > time to time, I would go with something a little smaller. > > Of course, as a parent, I've used both a Burley D'Lite and a Chariot > kid trailer. We wore our first Burley completely out. The Chariot, I > didn't like. There was something weird about the Quick release. I > believe the cam piece fit into a recess in the piece that fit against > the dropout. A few times, I thought I had the Quick release closed, > but it wasn't in its recess, and then the tire shifted over and rubbed > against my frame. I rode for about three miles like that one day, > thinking I was just in terrible shape that day. Consequently, there's > a lot of touchup paint on my Rivendell's chainstay. So, we eventually > replaced it with another Burley D'Lite I found at a thrift store. It > looked like it had never been used, and it was pretty cheap considerin'. > > Because of my fondness for the D'Lite, I do occasionally think about > buying a Burley Nomad. I just can't justify it. > > I also have one of those rubbermaid bins-on-a-frame-with-wheels that > goes along with the Bike Friday. I think it's called Bicycle R > Evolution, or something like that. I didn't like it at first because > it had a tendency to flip over if you caught a curb with it, but over > the years, I've grown to love it. I can lock the Rubbermaid bin. The > hitch is simple, and there's a lot of space in there. The kids and I > haul it on our Bike Friday triple, and I use it to run errands on my > single speed and occasionally on my Rivendell. I wouldn't use it for > careening down mountains, but as a utility trailer, it's pretty good. > > I also had a B.O.B. trailer for a while. I liked it, but I didn't use > it as much as my other trailers and sold it with my recumbent when I > was trying to free up some room in my office. It also wouldn't fit on > my Rivendell with my Expedition rear rack on. Those little > Frankenstein bolts that jut out from the bottom of the Expedition rack > are in the way, and I didn't want to pull my rear rack off every time > I wanted to put the trailer on, so the R Evolution trailer won. > > I still think of the B.O.B. as THE touring trailer though, maybe > because it is pictured in so many of the photos in Adventure Cycling. > Paul B. Cooley > Santa Fe, NMhttp://carfreefamily.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
