StuInTokyo
Maximum Pace
- Dec 3, 2010
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Last year, 2010, in early March, actually March 16th, >> I posted up on another forum << (I did not know that this place existed) on building a trailer to haul my beer deliveries around. I was badly out of shape, at 301 lbs or 136kg, and I thought that getting back on the bike, even in a small way would be good.
A couple of minor and major revisions and now I'm ready for a Ver. 3.0
Basically, the problem is that we took on a new customer, a good customer, should be worth some serious coin to the business. They order a lot of stuff six days a week, one of which is a 20 litre keg of beer. Most every day they order a 20L keg, a case of large bottles of beer, and 6 large bottle or sake/shochu mixed. I cannot easily fit that on the trailer without some stacking, which is not the best idea, as all of this stuff is heavy.
You can see the problem, the trailer is too narrow by about 10 cm
I also wanted to deal with my ground clearance problem, the tail end hits the ground on several places around my deliveries going over curbs and such, I figure another inch or so will give me more than enough clearance, but not compromise my low slung stability.
cont....
A couple of minor and major revisions and now I'm ready for a Ver. 3.0
Basically, the problem is that we took on a new customer, a good customer, should be worth some serious coin to the business. They order a lot of stuff six days a week, one of which is a 20 litre keg of beer. Most every day they order a 20L keg, a case of large bottles of beer, and 6 large bottle or sake/shochu mixed. I cannot easily fit that on the trailer without some stacking, which is not the best idea, as all of this stuff is heavy.
You can see the problem, the trailer is too narrow by about 10 cm
I also wanted to deal with my ground clearance problem, the tail end hits the ground on several places around my deliveries going over curbs and such, I figure another inch or so will give me more than enough clearance, but not compromise my low slung stability.
cont....