Pulling a trailer with your unicycle?

I put a little kid bike trailor on my uni once, but i did ride far with
it. It worked ok, it was a little weird at first but not too bad, It
wasn't very practical for me cause I didn't need to cary anything, It
was just an experiment.

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well for one, you can have a nice big hydration pack that you can keep
food, water, bandaids, more food, extra clothes and other necesseties
in. then, you can strap a sleeping bag under your seat or behind your
seat if you have the 'T7 handle.'
(http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=973)

I think thats all you would want, but I'm not sure.

I think a wagon type thing would be a pretty bad Idea, because it would
be heavy, and it would be really awkward to pull it because you would
have to lean forward alot. I think it could possibly flip over on turns
too.

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mscalisi said:

wait...invisible AND pink?

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Thanks for the welcoming!

The idea is that the trailer removes the need to carry a heavy
backpack.

I´m talking about bringing a tent, sleeping bag, sleeping pad, and
general camping stuff, so you wouldn´t fit it in a backpack. Not one
you would be comfortable riding with anyway.

More ideas?

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well if you had that much stuff in a trailor, it would end up being
around 35 pounds(including trailor) which would mean it would be hard
to pull(I think)

also, you would probably want big wheels so that it would go over bumps
better, but those would add even more weight.

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ivan said:

I believe in the Invisible Pink Unicorn.

mscalisi said:

wait...invisible AND pink?

'please... help save flightline'
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u cant attach a bike trailer to a unicycle(ive tried)ud have to make a
new like hitch on it

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skianduniaddict said:

in order to pull a bike trailer with a uni, you would need to devlop
some sort of hitch for your uni

fixed🙂
he said he didnt want to hear what cant be done.

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Hand truck?
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Mail supplies ahead of time to the post offices on your route?

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Sounds like an excellent project, I wish you luck with it!

I know UL is the way to go, but I still think there could be a way to
do it "slow and heavy" too 😉

I don´t really have a specifik project in mind, as much as I am trying
to find out if pulling a trailer with your uni is really feasible.

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i disagree with skianduni, it is absolutely possible to pull (certain)
bike trailers behind a unicycle, as smcmorrow and I have done so this
year (there are pictures of his sister riding it in his gallery i
think)

Unfortunately, Ive never tried riding for any distance on it, and can't
attest to whether it would be practical or not.

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I was wrong, the image wasn't in smcmorrow's gallery, but i know i've
seen it somewhere...i'll try to find it

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Here's my version of a trailer unicycle. Enjoy 😄 😄 😄

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Trailers are horrible on bikes, let alone unicycles.

If you really wanna carry all that gear, strap the sleeping bag to the
back of your seat, lightweight tent is 2 or 3 lbs so can go in a
daysack on your back, use a lightweight sleeping bag. sleeping mat
straps to the outside of your bag if you really want one.

Most people take way more stuff than they need camping. If you have
lightweight gear it needn't make your bag super heavy.

Personally I've done some 150 mile rides just with a big camelbak,
sleeping bag attached to the uni, and a bivvi bag inside the camelbak.

The big problem with taking loads of gear and going slow, is that you
inevitably half the speed you can go, so for a given distance it ends
up costing more.

Joe

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I'm so tempted to try my unicycle trailer idea hahaha 😄 😄 😄 and see
if i can adjust/modify it to meet my specification. Which is preety
much running errands, you know shopping etc. 😄 😄

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joemarshall said:

Most people take way more stuff than they need camping.

You didn't say that when you were staying in a tent you could stand up
in, lying on an airbed and placing ornaments on the shelving units up
in Yorkshire earlier this year 😉

I agree with BluntRM though. If you know your itinary for a long
journey then posting supplies to each stop off is by far the easiest.
You still need to carry emergency tools as well as a days worth of
food, drink, clothing and maps, but that is quite easy to get in to a
smallish pack.

As an aside, I was staying with friends over xmas, and unicycled the 6
miles or so to their house with a back pack full of 7 litres of beer,
many presents and changes of clotes etc. The beer was all packed low
down, and I was surprised as to how well the uni handled.

STM

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Ok, so no trailer then.

But I guess you could still fit quite a lot of stuff in front of, and
behind the seat, as long as you distribute the weight properly?

I never have a ready itenary. Takes all the fun out of it. But it also
means you have to carry more stuff, sadly.

I´m trying to tell myself I don´t need a Coker right away. Only been
unicycling for 6 days after all. But it´s no use. I know I would never
be happy with anything less.

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I´m not really ready to give up on this idea.

Pulling a trailer with a unicycle may not be very practical, but then
again practicality isn´t really why we ride unicycles anyway, is it?

I have som ideas about a project. It involves ski mountaineering
equipment, and my Coker. A trailer would be essential.

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muni-sailor said:

I´m not really ready to give up on this idea.

Pulling a trailer with a unicycle may not be very practical, but then
again practicality isn´t really why we ride unicycles anyway, is it?

I have som ideas about a project. It involves ski mountaineering
equipment, and my Coker. A trailer would be essential.

Rather than a bike style trailer, I wonder if there'd be some way to
pull a hand cart of some kind, ie. attached to you rather than to the
cycle?

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I've ridden with a bike trailer. I didn't attach it to the unicycle
though. It was the kind with a tongue that comes up and attaches to the
seat. I just held the tongue in my hand. I found that it works much
better pushing it in front than pulling it behind. You constantly have
to correct it though cause it likes to veer off your intended route. If
you wanted to get something a few blocks it might be worthwhile, but
for distance it would just wipe you out.

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Just throw everything in a shopping cart, and push it in front of you!

A shopping cart will make a much better handle than a T7!

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