Moving a bed

Danny Colyer said:

I've just joined the ranks of those who've moved heavy or bulky items of
furniture by bike. We enlisted a friend, then he and Catherine held the
bed (in bits) on the kids' trailer (/sans/ kids) while I pushed the bike.

And to think Catherine didn't believe it would work!

Putting the bed on castors / skates and towing it with 2 riders at the
front would have been more fun if the route was quite flat!

peter

naked_draughtsman said:

Putting the bed on castors / skates and towing it with 2 riders at the
front would have been more fun if the route was quite flat!

and even more fun if it was downhill...

regards, Ian SMith
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Ian Smith said:

naked_draughtsman said:

Putting the bed on castors / skates and towing it with 2 riders at the
front would have been more fun if the route was quite flat!

and even more fun if it was downhill...

Could this be achieved safely by attaching a bike front and rear? The
front bike would 'steer' the bed and the rear bike would act as the
brakes, preventing the bed from overtaking the front bike.

naked_draughtsman said:

Putting the bed on castors / skates and towing it with 2 riders at the
front would have been more fun if the route was quite flat!

Last weekend I spotted a couple of kids who had acquired an armchair
from somewhere, had put a micro-scooter under it and were trying to ride
the chair on the scooter. As I passed I heard one of them say that they
needed something bigger, like a skateboard.

When I walked past again an hour or so later, they had two scooters, a
skateboard and the armchair and were still experimenting with different
combinations. It was good to see that at least some kids still do that
sort of thing.

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| I've just joined the ranks of those who've moved heavy or bulky items of
| furniture by bike. ...

About a fortnight ago I wombled ten nine-foot lengths of slightly used
two-by-four (or whatever the metric equivalent is) from a skip in the
University Science Area and towed them home propped up in the Burley
Bee (sans passenger). Despite putting bricks in the front of the trailer,
the trailing four or five feet of two-by-four made the back wheel of the
bike a little light on the ground, and I felt I had to dismount to get
over the Science Area speed humps. (Does anyone still call them sleeping
policemen?) As I was negotiating the cattle grid and the last of the
barriers at the home end of the bit of NCN51 that crosses the University
Parks I was met by a bicycling family with a German accent and a child
sitting up in a cargo trailer. Something of the irony of the situation
was lost in the (presumed) father's remark that that was "very practical".
I have been worried since that there is some sense of "praktisch" which
has previously eluded me, and means something like ludicrously impractical.

Danny Colyer said:

I've just joined the ranks of those who've moved heavy or bulky items of
furniture by bike. We enlisted a friend, then he and Catherine held the
bed (in bits) on the kids' trailer (/sans/ kids) while I pushed the bike.

Yesterday I caught up with a friend whom I haven't seen for some years.
She was telling me about her brother-in-law who went to the West Country
last year for a scything (sp?) festival . He took his bike to Devon on
the train, and camped at the festival.

At the festival he bought a hand-made scythe, and managed to fasten it
to the bike frame for the journey home. He arrived at the station for an
early morning train and got there just as the station attendant was
opening up. He was somewhat alarmed to see the scythe on the bike, but
did allow him onto the train with it.

naked_draughtsman said:

Putting the bed on castors / skates and towing it with 2 riders at the
front would have been more fun if the route was quite flat!

Castors shatter on anything but the smoothest of surfaces at anything
above a very slow walking speed. :-(

R.

Danny Colyer said:

I've just joined the ranks of those who've moved heavy or bulky items of
furniture by bike. We enlisted a friend, then he and Catherine held the
bed (in bits) on the kids' trailer (/sans/ kids) while I pushed the bike.

And to think Catherine didn't believe it would work!

You obvoiusly need a cargo trailer like this:
http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/~dmamartin/picture071.jpg

Forget a new bike, a new trailer is really what you want.
Mine now has two 20" wheels, but of different sizes (one is 206, the
other 240). Judicious use of tyre pressures keeps the trailer rolling
straight. (Took an old fridge to the dump at the weekend).

...d

David Martin said:

Danny Colyer said:

I've just joined the ranks of those who've moved heavy or bulky items of
furniture by bike. We enlisted a friend, then he and Catherine held the
bed (in bits) on the kids' trailer (/sans/ kids) while I pushed the bike.

And to think Catherine didn't believe it would work!

You obvoiusly need a cargo trailer like this:
http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/~dmamartin/picture071.jpg

.... or like one of these ...

http://www.bikesatwork.com/

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Don Whybrow

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Question _your own_ authority.

David Martin said:

You obvoiusly need a cargo trailer like this:
http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/~dmamartin/picture071.jpg

You're absolutely right, though I'd have nowhere to keep it. At some
point I must widen my garden gate (which will mean destroying part of a
wall), so that I can get a two-wheeled trailer through it, then build a
brick shed in the back garden.

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