Burley Trailer Conversion

From free Craigslist kid hauler to backcountry science trailer.

Trial by fire tomorrow.

Old Dogs

Our freaky lab went and saw the vet this week. She's been showing a gimpy left leg for a while now, especially after exercising. Diagnosis was arthritis, which is better than some of the other possibilities. She's 8 years old now, and has definitely slowed down, but she still loves to get outside. I ran across this trailer on craiglist this week.

I have an old burley exactly like the base they used for this set up. I was thinking of doing the conversion to a cargo/dog hauler, and seeing this just sealed the deal.





Hopefully the old girl digs it.

This is Going to be a Game Changer

We got a great deal on a Chariot kids trailer a while back. My wife and I both love to ski, in fact we met skiing, and we've gotten the little man out XC skiing a decent amount in his first winter. We've been holding out for a good deal on the Chariot ski kit, they're sweet, but $250 is not money I spend lightly. Finally scored one this week. We've wasted no time putting it to work.

One happy little skier

Scoping out the ice from the bridge

A bit of overflow icing up the trail

Maybe I Can't Have it All

We had ourselves an excellent holiday season around here.

We had the good fortune to receive Wideloaders for the the Dummy and a bike attachment for a Chariot trailer we picked up a while back.

I put the Wideloaders to use on a grocery run the other night and they didn't disappoint. The next afternoon temps were in the teens so I decided to head out for a ride with the Littlewrider. I figured I'd leave the Wideloaders on and just hook up the trailer rather than take them off and reinstall them later. . . . apparently that isn't an option.

It seems the wideloader and the arm of the trailer need to occupy the same airspace.

Fortunately it took only a moment to remove the wideloader, and we were off for our ride.

Dude sang and babbled in the trailer until he fell asleep. It was nice to ride trails for over an hour with the little man cozy in his little trailer.

Caution: Long Load

FAll! I love fall!

I had a bunch of stuff that friends had left at our house over the past few weeks and I decided that this afternoon it was time to return it. It was me and the little man hanging out all day, so I figured out how to hook the Burley trailer up to the Dummy and we headed out.
It was a beautiful afternoon. Lots of sunshine, and lots of color on the trees. Little dude slept hard in the trailer as we ran around.
Allman caught up with us in the middle of our ride, he was out on his Pugsley pulling a trailer with his recycling on board. At one point the tape measure came out and it turned out that his rig outstretched the Dummy/Burley set up by 9 or 10 inches.Mrs Bike wrider caught up with us just before we got home, so we turned around and rode for a while longer. We finished up by riding a few mellow trails on the way back to the house.