I had to temporarily move out. It took a few trips to move all my belongings.

No electric, so rather slow speed, but thankfully very little traffic here.

In front of a stone house with a blue door. The trailers hold bin bags and green crates with another bicycle laid on top

The bike train on a road, carrying rather tall stacks of green crates, as well as other miscellaneous items

2 trailers connected to the bike. The front trailer has a stack of bicycles on it, and the rear trailer has green crates on top of which sits a cat. Another cat walks towards the camera

#CarryShitOlympics

  • Poop@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    4 months ago

    I love the cat just chilling up there loving life!

    How did you connect this train to your bike?

    • 56!@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      The first one is more of a garden cart rather than a bike trailer. It’s connected onto the side of the rear rack with some bits of driftwood screwed together :) The rest are just trailer connectors attached somewhere on the previous trailer.

      • Poop@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        That’s perfect! I thought it was attached to the rack there, but I couldn’t tell what the bracket part was. I love that it’s driftwood, that is great.

        Thanks for sharing, your bicycle cat train is bad ass!

    • 56!@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      Yes, that’s true… There’s only one small hill I had to go up. With low enough gears though, much steeper hills should be possible.

  • xavier_berthiaume@jlai.luEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    Dude this is so freaking cool. I love the setup! How difficult is it to make turns with the 3 trailers attached?

    • 56!@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Thanks! Bike trailers are great at corners. You can easily do a u-turn with one. The way the second trailer is connected to the front hand cart though, limits it to about 45°. While cycling though, there are no issues, just cycle maybe a metre from the edge of the road.

    • 56!@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      I find the best way to get free things is to let people know you’re interested in those things. I recently took over the local bike hire, and now everyone knows I enjoy repairing bicycles. I’ve had multiple people approach me to get rid of their old bicycles. That’s how I got 2 of the trailers. This presumably works best in places with stronger community.

      Otherwise, I think keeping an eye on local buy/sell websites (eg facebook/gumtree/freecycle). I think you’re likely to find an old child trailer, which you can remove the cover and sides from to get a trailer base. Maybe try putting “wanted” posts on these websites as well, as people might not realise a torn or rusty child trailer is worth anything.

      Theoretically they should be rather easy to make from scratch, though I’ve not done this yet. They are really just a frame with small bike wheels and a hitch.

  • plactagonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    I towed with 2 other people bike trailer up to 2500m mountain pass few months ago. Basically the reverse of your carry shit Olympics.

    So 3 trailers on flat is quite impressive achievement.

  • Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pubEnglish
    1·
    17 days ago

    Could you tag the original post as # CarryShitOlympics ? (Without the space after #)

    It definitely deserves the viewers that would gain it!

    • 56!@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      1·
      17 days ago

      I’ve put it in there, but I’m not sure if it’s even possible to create tags like that from lemmy.

      • Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pubEnglish
        1·
        17 days ago

        Hm, ok, true. It doesn’t show in the hashtag search on Mastodon :( It does work just fine from PieFed, although there they have a specific field for writing tags. This one doesn’t get found with #carryshitolympics (now, this comment, however, should!)

        Also, I guess it should work even from Lemmy if the hashtag is in the title because that becomes text in the Mastodon post? Probably?

        But whatever. Life is. :)
        Still, if anyone is posting such images from PieFed, it would be cool to tag them with that to spread the good word!