Single Wheeled Bike Trailer

Step 2 Hitch Mechanism

Now for the hitch. I picked up some ideas from other trailer designs I found on the web and hoped my conduit would hold up. It seems to work fine. Here's the details: I used a 3/4" piece of steel plumbing pipe and 2 caps to join everything together. It was great, no excess wobble in the collar or up and down motion. Whisper quiet. The hitch resembles a triangle shape which is very ridged. 1/4" bolts everywhere. The sectioned where cut, flattened and bent in my bench vise. The edges were ground to look nice. I had to estimate the space needed for the tire and distance to the trailer.

Comments

[jamar3030]

It looks like you used a head tube (instead of steel plumbing pipe) from a bicycle here as your horizontal pivot and welded it to the trailer. Is the steel pipe inside the head tube?

[rangeside]

yeah it does look like a headtube

[pteranosaur]

...it is...but it's vertical,not horiz...