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A few weeks ago I ran across an article with an intriguing title: 101 Uses For A Bike Trailer. I was disappointed to find that the article didn’t really list the 101 uses. In fact, it just listed five uses for their bike trailer.
I’ve got a bike trailer and I was pretty sure it wouldn’t take very long for me to come up with 101 uses for it. Well guess what? 101 is a LOT. So forget that, I’m stopping at 36. The specific uses aren’t important unto themselves. The point is to think in new ways about reasonable transportation. This list is really a kind of oblique strategies approach to using your bike trailer. Enjoy hauling stuff around!
- haul your kid(s) around
- pick up a dead raccoon to satisfy your child’s “mountain man” phase (long story)
- get some topsoil for your garden
- take your dog to the vet
- give a hitchhiker a lift
- take your kids’ bike over to the neighbor’s house
- take your Christmas tree to the dump
- use it for a resistance trainer and gradually add weight
- help your neighbor move
- carry camping gear
- get the soccer balls to the game
- haul away your grandma’s old computer
- entice people to ask asinine questions
- carry your suit for this afternoon’s meeting
- take tools to fix your friend’s bike
- haul kegs of homebrew
- bring home tasty produce from your local CSA
- use it as a base for a human powered parade float
- carry your backpack with something other than your back
- bring the Costco booty back to the office
- pick up the U-Bake-It pizza
- haul your dead CFLs and empty paint cans to the hazardous waste place
- bring home construction site remnants for crafts
- give new meanings to “road warrior” and “mobile professional”
- take your recyclable cans and bottles to the store for cash
- transport houseplants
- take your old stuff to Goodwill
- haul remodeling leftovers to the Habitat ReStore
- load a freezer with ice cream treats and travel the neighborhood making kids happy
- take your laundry to the laundromat or dry cleaner (and home!)
- cause motorists to treat you with more respect (thinking there are kids in there)
- haul your foraged mushrooms
- deliver newspapers
- start a local grocery delivery service
- haul goodies home from garage sales
- fetch that bag of hair from your local barber so you can ugly your bike
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5 comments for this entry ↓
1 tp // Feb 13, 2008 at 10:21 pm
37. Put trailer behind road bike. Put mountain bike on trailer. Ride to an MTB event. Park nest to an SUV. Bask in the glory that is your unbeatable awesomeness.
2 Ryan // Feb 14, 2008 at 4:22 am
38. Attach modified leaf blower and clear leaves from local greenway trails.
(#2 is awesome. I wouldn’t take my bike to the part of town I’d need to go to for #32. “Foraged”, is that what the hip kids are calling it these days?)
3 Matt // Feb 14, 2008 at 6:31 am
Don’t tease us! What is the long story?
4 Bren // Feb 14, 2008 at 8:08 am
Short version of the long story behind #2: I had went through a mountain man phase, where all I wanted to do was live off the land in the mountains (coming down to surf occasionally). I wanted to trap animals and skin them. I skinned a couple of field mice and gophers and used the skins for bookmarks, but wanted a bigger challenge. So my mom actually started picking up roadkill for me to skin.
She probably thought she was saving the neighborhood cats…
5 mattsmad // Aug 16, 2008 at 7:09 am
39. use it as a camera tripod thig strap you tripod to the trailer so then you can film bike walking, chase or running seen.
(i have tryed this and it does work)
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