I'm liking bicycle trailers more and more. I lugged my kids around in a Burley d'Lite 'til they outgrew it. I sold it, then turned around a year later and bought a used Yakima single-wheel trailer for touring and errands — mainly grocery shopping.
Now I see that a bicycle trailer manufacturer is offering free plans on how to build a bamboo trailer.
UK-based Carry Freedom sells several styles of trailers — including a dog kennel trailer and a folding trailer. The owners figure that cycling makes the world a better place and trailers make it easier to carry stuff by bike.
They also say, rightly, that the people who need a bicycle trailer the most are the ones who have to least ability to buy or build one.
So Carry Freedom is offering do-it-yourself plans for what it calls the “bamboo trailer,” although it can be built from just about anything. The designers are happy to pass the plans along to hobbyists, as long as they share pictures of how the trailers were adapted and any improvements they made.
The real purpose of the project is to get plans for these trailers out to Third World, where they can be used for hauling cargo, crops, or other materials. They can even be used as ambulances.
World Bicycle Relief — whose mission is to provide access to independence and livelihood through the power of bicycles — wants to provide a set of plans with each bicycle is distributes.
Plans for other free trailer designs are also available at the Carry Freedom website. Also, check out the Free Your Bike blog which shows some DIY trailer uses — such as a rolling camp bed for Burning Man.
And by all means, if you have any ideas for improvements, please contact them.
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