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Melalvai
10-19-2007, 05:51 AM
Lawn chair trailer
Tri Girl
10-19-2007, 06:20 AM
Notice SHE'S doing the pulling? Ummm hmmmm....:rolleyes:
Melalvai
10-19-2007, 07:10 AM
All he needs is a beer, huh?
My 12 yr old daughter pulled me around the block on it.
csr1210
10-19-2007, 07:26 AM
Love this!!! Now if I can just figure out how to convince my husband that pulling me around is a great training technique.....:rolleyes:
SouthernBelle
10-19-2007, 07:27 AM
Love this!!! Now if I can just figure out how to convince my husband that pulling me around is a great training technique.....:rolleyes:

Oh, but if he bails on a hill, where would you be? :eek:
Trek420
10-19-2007, 08:00 AM
All he needs is a beer, huh?


and the remote :rolleyes: ;) :p
sgtiger
10-19-2007, 09:01 AM
Actually, I think the remote comes with this bike:

http://www.bikeforest.com/cb/drive_thru_couch1.jpg
Zen
10-19-2007, 09:51 AM
Mel, did he build that?
What's the story here?
sundial
10-19-2007, 11:03 AM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
smilingcat
10-19-2007, 06:56 PM
Drive thru??
ibcycling
10-19-2007, 09:08 PM
OMG! That is just tooo funny!

Lora
Mr. Bloom
10-20-2007, 02:26 AM
Where are their helmets?:eek:
Melalvai
10-20-2007, 10:10 AM
Mel, did he build that?
What's the story here?
The story is, I bought a kid's trailer off of craigslist for $20 several months ago. It was the plastic kind and I never put the top back on it, partly because I couldn't figure out how to and partly because I just set the plastic tub inside it to get my groceries.

I used it for groceries and for a camping trip all summer. The camping trip really loaded it down and I'm certain was well beyond the approved weight limit, not to mention the plastic part of the trailer had clearly been through a few kids before I bought it.

A couple grocery trips after camping, and the plastic cracked. The last grocery trip home was 5 mph, dragging the whole way.

Not having the funds for a new trailer (hence the $20 craigslist trailer in the first place) I was inspired to build a new one out of the parts of the old grocery trailer. It wasn't hard at all. Disassembly was the most laborious. A lab across campus had a wooden crate to get rid of, and I used the bottom of it for the flatbed.

The new trailer performed admirably on its first grocery trip, and we've had fun with the lawn chair. My 12 yr old daughter pulled me around the block on the lawn chair too. She thinks she might have a money making scheme here.

I am going to tinker with it a little bit more. The bottom of the wooden crate had 2 braces. I attached the axle to one brace and the hitch to the other. Now I want to move the back brace to the center of the platform because I read the axle should be centered. Cost so far: $2 for a 3rd brace to make the hitch fit, $4 for carriage bolts to attach the hitch.
Melalvai
10-20-2007, 10:13 AM
Where are their helmets?
The couch bike is featured on Bike Forest, a little custom bike shop with hilarious bikes, including the hula bike and the treadmill bike. I love their website and blog.

I spent one afternoon reading the very long journal of the couch bike. They were pulled over repeatedly and the cops just scratched their heads, tried to figure out what law they were breaking, and kept sending them on their way with "You should have helmets". So finally they bought a couple helmets.

I SO want my own couch bike. I wonder if I could get a recliner on my trailer...
Mr. Bloom
10-20-2007, 02:21 PM
the cops just scratched their heads, tried to figure out what law they were breaking,

Well, in Indiana, you can ride two abreast...so it's legal here;)