Load carrying chinese style

"David Martin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/04/24/daypix/060424_china2.jpg

impressive looking; OTOH it looks like the chap is hauling scrap polystyrene
and paper (perhaps for recycling?) which isn't all *that* heavy a load.
Still a Good Thing though.

Incidentally anyone got any weblinks to designs for building your own
trailers etc?

Alex

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David Martin said:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/04/24/daypix/060424_china2.jpg

This one's quite freightening too:

http://www.amoymagic.com/humor/humorhaul.JPG

JimP

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all. - DNA

Mr R@t (2.30 zulu-india) said:

"David Martin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/04/24/daypix/060424_china2.jpg

impressive looking; OTOH it looks like the chap is hauling scrap polystyrene
and paper (perhaps for recycling?) which isn't all *that* heavy a load.
Still a Good Thing though.

Incidentally anyone got any weblinks to designs for building your own
trailers etc?

Wobbly John has some - xntrick cycles or similar.
And there is my project
http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/~dmamartin/trailer/trailer.html

...d

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Alex

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Ipswich, Suffolk, Untied Kingdom
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Mr R@t (2.30 zulu-india) said:

"David Martin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/04/24/daypix/060424_china2.jpg

impressive looking; OTOH it looks like the chap is hauling scrap
polystyrene and paper (perhaps for recycling?) which isn't all *that*
heavy a load. Still a Good Thing though.

On a still day, it's not that hard. If it's blustery...

Quoted message said:

Incidentally anyone got any weblinks to designs for building your own
trailers etc?

David Martin describe building his in some detail here. I think it only
takes a single bed, though, so it may not be big enough fo the above uses.
--
Ambrose

Jim Price said:

David Martin said:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/04/24/daypix/060424_china2.jpg

This one's quite freightening too:

http://www.amoymagic.com/humor/humorhaul.JPG

I don't know if the "freight" misspelling of fright was intentional,
but it's certainly apt - although strictly speaking he's not cycling ;-)

--
Nobby Anderson

Ambrose Nankivell said:

Mr R@t (2.30 zulu-india) said:

"David Martin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/04/24/daypix/060424_china2.jpg

impressive looking; OTOH it looks like the chap is hauling scrap
polystyrene and paper (perhaps for recycling?) which isn't all *that*
heavy a load. Still a Good Thing though.

On a still day, it's not that hard. If it's blustery...

Should be OK, you've no idea how heavy such a threewheeler is 😉
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Marten Gerritsen

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In article said:

Incidentally anyone got any weblinks to designs for building your own
trailers etc?

http://www.re-cycle.org/trailer/
http://www.carryfreedom.com/bamboo.html
http://www.eland.org.uk/pages/trailer2.html
http://trailers.xntrick.co.uk
http://www.itdg.org/docs/technical_information_service/bicycle_trailers.pdf

David Martin said:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/04/24/daypix/060424_china2.jpg

Fairly typical. On my first visit to Shanghai in 1996 I saw a bike
transporting 12 HP laserjet printers - I wish I'd got a shot of it.
Large tanks of purified drinking water are sold to households by
vendors who travel around yelling from their bikes, carring up to
eight.

On 24/04/2006 15:56, David Martin said,

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Blimey. Makes German cycle tourists look lightly laden :-)

--
Paul Boyd
http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/

David Martin said:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/04/24/daypix/060424_china2.jpg

And I thought lashing 2.1m bamboo canes to my MTB to carry them back
from Homebase was extreme!

peter

"Mr R@t (2.30 zulu-india)" <[email hidden]> wrote

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impressive looking; OTOH it looks like the chap is hauling scrap
polystyrene and paper (perhaps for recycling?) which isn't all *that*
heavy a load.

I did something similar but less extreme with scrap cardboard and plastic
bottles for recycling the other day.
Unfortunately having loaded the bike higher than my head and about four feet
wide I couldn't then get it through the back gate and onto the road so it
all had to come off again and be reloaded. Bah!

naked_draughtsman said:

David Martin said:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2006/04/24/daypix/060424_china2.jpg

And I thought lashing 2.1m bamboo canes to my MTB to carry them back
from Homebase was extreme!

peter

The christmas tree on the triplet was interesting.

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/chrisg?entry=to_henfold_and_a_christmas

They are just not aerodynamic.

--chris