Ugh. If the new bus terminal is going to look anything like that wavy glass Chang Feng building they did, I'm going to be sad. It looks like a tacky design from a Star Wars prequel.
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Using a bike trailer is a great idea if you’re not carrying much, but most bike frames aren’t built to drag a heavy load. Cargo bike frames are much more heavy duty and are designed for higher weight capacities to handle a load. I’ve never been able to find any manufacturer specs on how much trailer weight their bikes can handle. (I use both trailers and cargo bikes.) #ebike#BikeTooter#BikeTrailer#bicycles#CargoBikehttps://mstdn.social/@resmo/112478205990320053
@rj@SRLevine@bikescape I’ld never put 120kg on what I made - I’m looking at more at under 50kg here.
As with Rik’s experience, my bike’s maker doesn’t list trailer weight or torque limits at all, though they did say to talk with your dealer about trailer options, which at very least says trailers are possible.
But since a rear axle connection wasn’t possible (and looking at it, not a great idea anyway) I designed my hitch adapter with the idea of spreading the forces around as many parts of the built-in cargo frame as seemed reasonable, looking for the areas they clearly built to handle the most torque.
Even given that, of course, a relatively heavy cargo load should involve very prudent braking.
1: the swivel wheel works! and pretty well. It's DEFINITELY VERY NOISY, but not comedically so.
2: the bungee cord solution is both quieter and handles over any weight this thing should be carrying anyway, BUT!
3: if we're in a situation where we need to cargo something actually kinda heavy (like over 40kg/90lbs, which is more than the thing was built to carry anyway), then it's worth having the wheel. Maybe build a reinforcement plate to stick in that'll firm up the cargo bed a bit, since it's just plastic.
But in all other cases, using a bungee cord to transition some of the load to the far side of the cargo structure is a clear winner.
(I found basically this model, and it's rated for up to 40 moving human child pounds, which is to say in more general terms 40 dynamic pounds. You can go a lot higher if the weight involved is static, which this of course would be. 80 static pounds is a guess, but it's not terrible either. Plus, I can obviously can run the safety limits tighter because it's not a child.)
So yeah basically I think that's a wrap for this project? I have a bike cargo carrier now, the best I can do for the time being. It can carry a pretty good load - more than we ever get just stopping by the grocery, and from that first trial we know it's more than enough to use for dedicated grocery runs.
With the either bungee solution or the wheel solution, I'm not putting any visible (and therefore any meaningful) torsion on the frame, which means my hitch adapter works and is safe to use, so I can be pretty confident I'm not doing any harm to my bike with it.
Which was, of course, by far the most important question.
So yeah, I guess it's finished! I've put the third wheel into the bike accessories drawer, I've put the cargo cover I sewed onto the higher-accessibility accessories shelf (first order retrieval is my friend), and ...
yeah! I guess we're done!
(Well... other than maybe sewing a reflector onto the cargo cover. It's pretty damn visible with that safety orange cover, but... just to be sure. xD )
@pokeypoke I do! There are multiple sellers of such things on eBay and Amazon! This one in particular (which is fine so far, I mean, it's just bungee cord) I got with credit union rewards points here: