Conduit Bike Trailer

Step 9 Attach it to da bike

Now, attach the tongue to your bike seat with another inner tube. Lash it tightly.

Comments

[mattbomb]

dude now this is making use of what ya got. this is great man. awesome trailer design

[SpaceRat]

Incredibly ingenius use of an old inner tube. Some folks would have gone to great lengths to come up with a nuts-and-bolts approach to attaching the tongue, whereas you have accomplished it quick, easy, and much faster. Well done!

[sleeping_gecko]

I've not done much with innertube lashing, so I don't know how much friction it would provide for the hole here. I was thinking you might want to drill a hole 6" or so from the end of the wood (6" from the front), and put a nail (with the point filed/ground off) through it. You could bend a rounded 90 degree angle into it, so it could hook around your seatpost a bit. This might be a good idea (especially with heavier loads).

[prank]

I've pulled ~300 pound loads with innertube lashings without a problem. Innertubes have so much friction that they can hold pieces together incredibly well. Just be sure to lash them tightly

[sleeping_gecko]

That's quite a substantial load. I was seriously considering building one of these, but I'm in a dorm building on a college campus, and my spare bike parts are at home, so I don't have them with me and I have no place to store it.

And then, a few months ago, my bike got stolen. It was right after I put on the chrome fenders that I had brought back from the junk bike I bought in Japan when I was there, too. But other than that, it didn't have much worth left to it other than being an abusable college-student bike (front derailer=gone, rear derailer=3 or 4 gears, instead of 5, depending on its mood, rear brake=gone, a spoke or two on the rear wheel=gone, tires and most of the non-painted parts=crapped up and nasty from the better part of a year and a half of sitting outside through rain, snow, freezing cold, boiling heat).

I miss it though. I do a lot of walking now. I loved riding in snow last winter.