Build Your Own Tall Bike Without Welding

Step 14 Bike Wagon Made from Elevator Door

My mom's family says "lazy man's load" for a huge load trying to move everything in one trip.
The inherited joke is that laziness often creates more work than it saves.

Anyway, I need to move more stuff than would fit on my bike.
So I scavenged this door from a freight elevator, cut a couple of aluminum signs in half diagonally, bolted some kids bike wheels between them, and made a quick bike trailer.
It was pretty wobbly til I added enough cross sticks and guy wires between the wheels to triangulate it.

As I recall, the trailer hitch is just an eyeoblt with a loop of rope through it.
Or maybe it just goes through a hole in the end of the tailer tongue.
I looped that rope around the frame tube by the rear dropout and pull it tight with a bungy cord or other lashing. It worked pretty well, but later I changed to a higher longer tongue that I innertubed to my seatpost. That let me do tighter turns.

Comments

[IamMcLovin]

Great Instructable, just finished mine last weekend. However for the steering column I used 1/2 steel pipe with a T joint at the top and some 1ft pieces for handle bars. I also bolted the pipe to the top of the fork for steering and it works great.

[ewansud]

Hilarious. Hats off to you bro. This is the answer to high gas price and pollution.