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Bike trailer question
You know those large shopping baskets with wheels you can use in Lidl? Like a very deep basket with a long extendable handle you pull as you walk? This article has a picture of one:
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/secrets-tips-tricks-...
Is there a bicycle trailer that performs an identical function, with larger wheels? Something I can attach to the seatpost, get to the supermarket, detach and take in with me?
I want to fill the cargo trailer with shopping, unload at the till, put it all back in and then shuffle off home. No bags, no messing around.
Any ideas? Bike will be a classic old English roadster (I'm currently restoring).
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Bad idea.
I borrowed one from Waitrose once.
There was so much flex, it acted as a brake. Also a bit bumpy
Something like this instead https://www.burley.com/product/flatbed/
It's nice but I want to be able to take it around the supermarket, like a regular basket with wheels.
There used to be a place in Lewes that did those and you could get a handle for it or get a fitting to swivel it.
Not sure if the Lewes place is still going.
I used the ones Waitrose would lend you a while back, made by BikeHod, but a quick look seems they don't make them anymore. More like a "grannies" shopping trolley (though I do have a very good Rosler).
Strangely, from the side bar on here, ManoMano showed me some very cheap cycle trailers, shockingly so, don't know if they would last long.
I do enjoy their hole making machine advery.
At some point I will be investing in a Surly Ted with hitch, which seems so well built I will be able to make it a family heirloom. Enjoy grand-nephews and neices.
Is this any good?
https://youtu.be/hAcbzbDVl8w
Thanks but there's no rack on the bike, it has to be pulled behind. And that box is too small for shopping - I regularly carry 2l bottles of pop etc.
Looks like an interesting device, but I suspect only for slow travel on immaculate roads when you look at the tiny wheels. When the roads are like cart tracks, and the drivers are crazed cyclist haters like they are here, I think a Bob Yak with a high flag on the back and a plastic box may have the edge
Ah, found one that looks the part:
https://www.rosebikes.co.uk/bikcarry-one-shopping-cargo-bike-trailer-267...