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cargo trailers

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designers Timothy Schmidt
date 2021
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Category:Projects

Category:Transportation

Introduction

A bicycle trailer is a motorless wheeled frame with a hitch system for transporting cargo by bicycle. It can greatly increase a bike's cargo capacity, allowing point-to-point haulage of objects up to 4 cubic yards (3 cubic metres) in volume that weigh as much as half a ton.

Challenges

Approaches

Cycle trailer

Cycle cargo trailer

Wheel adapters

Rear wheel mockup

  • bolt-on pneumatic utility tires @ below deck level for true flat bed loading
  • expanded mesh bottom w/ tiled coroplast for all weather drainage and easy strapping
  • plastic fencing + coroplast sides
  • central beam, braces at front, rear, wheels. corner posts w/ pvc flag pole
  • modular totes

Truck trailer

truck_cargo_trailer.jpg

Front spindles

Tractor trailer

References


Original archived page — revision 9646, 2022-07-12T01:15:49+00:00, by Tim.

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