Bike Trailers
Touring Trailers & Bike Campers
Cycle Touring
EcoRoamer: a touring trailer takes the load off the bike for bicycle camping (Photo: dionhinchcliffe on flickr)
Often one-wheeled in design, touring trailers put the emphasis on lightweight, all-weather (waterproof) materials.
If a touring trailer is attached to the back of the bike, there is probably also a GPS unit attached to the handlebars up front.
Single-wheel Trailers
These type of trailers are almost exclusively used for touring, providing greater comfort and stability on rough, unpaved roads and track.
Loaded Koga Miyata Chela single wheel trailer (Photo: the manufacturer)
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2-wheel Trailers
Two-wheeled trailers resemble cargo trailers but are tuned to heavy-duty touring including additional carrying racks, weatherproofing and shock absorbers on some models.
Burley Nomad touring trailer with rack (Photo: the manufacturer)
Bike Camper Trailers
Off the Ground: the Australian-designed Midget Solo Bushtrekka camper trailer (Photos: the manufacturer)
The Midget Solo Bushtrekka is a bicycle camper including tent and storage space made to order in Australia. The elevated construction keeps you off any cold, damp ground. To be launched mid-2008 in North America.
Wild West: Gunter Lorenz' DIY chuckwagon-style trailer for bicycle camping (Photo: w44.de)
An avid touring cyclist, Guenther Lorenz of Germany, developed a chuckwagon pulled by a bicycle that comfortably sleeps one person. Soonafter, this inspired Andre Mantz, also in Germany, to build his own fold-down chuckwagon with changes to reduce overal weight. Both parties used their chuckwagons extensively during extended bicycle tours through neighbouring regions and around the country.
A Finnish designer, Sakari Holma, built an minimalist looking bike camper that sacrifices space for less wind resistance.
Ground Effect: the Finnish designer Sakari Holma's Karavaari bike camper trailer (Photos: saholm on flickr)
After photos of a few home-built DIY bicycle campers were well received by online communities for bicycle touring, the lightweight team at a German commercial manufacturer developed a bike camper trailer prototype perhaps to study the market potential for such trailers.
Market Study: the 80kg Dethleffs Biker camper prototype includes a kitchen area (Photo: media4u.net)
Not a bike trailer per say, but of interest the touring cyclist or cyclotourist, is a unique approach to using your bicycle in pitching a tent.
Topeak Bikamper (Photo: the manufacturer)
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