Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater
Mon, 22 Sep 2008
I made it as far as work with the trailer, without any problems to speak of. I tried to keep the speed under 15 MPH, and was mostly successful (the computer recorded a max of 19.8 MPH, so I broke my self-imposed speed limit at some point).
The tongue is clearly too heavily loaded, but that's just a matter of shifting things around a little bit. The biggest indication was a wallowing feeling when going over bumps, which I think came from the tongue pressing too heavily on the rear of the Xtracycle frame.
The only other indication of trouble was going down the hill on Fremont Ave: I had to ride the brakes the whole way down to keep from going too fast, and the front brake was making an intermittent noise like I might have warped the disc. Certainly a distinct possibility, although it didn't seem to continue after the bottom of the hill, so perhaps it didn't set in a warp.
I took the promised posterity/insurance pictures (click for the gallery):
Posted at 10:22 permanent link category: /bicycle
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater