Re: Rocky Mountains

Hi Ernest,

My DIY two wheel trailer has two tracks.  That's right.
My trailers right wheel follows the the bicycle track
while going straight.  So its not really to bad.

For a change I'd like to try staying clean.  Wash every
two or three days.  After two or three weeks I get pretty
rank.

I don't know if I have enough strength and wind to climb
the hills in the Rockies but I'm willing to try.  I use
to read about mountain men when I was a kid.  Great stuff.

-Mark Hoagy


On 2/9/2011 4:37 PM, ernest breakfield wrote:
> while i admire the enthusiasm, i don't think i'd want to be counting on
> pushing a bike with a trailer uphill in the dirt,... especially if your
> trailer is the 2-wheeled type, as it might not even be possible to get both
> hands on the bars and stretch out to push since your feet might be
> interfering with the trailer wheels.
>
> having played a bunch on dirt (J**ps, bikes, and motorcycles), i think that
> the idea of trying to maintain traction with your feet while pushing your
> rig on a dirt road that's too steep to ride with your set-up probably isn't
> the best. if it's too steep to ride, something's wrong; you're overloaded,
> underpowered, under-geared, in the wrong place, or some combination of those
> factors (and possibly others).
>
> going back to the trailer, the idea of taking a 2-wheeled trailer on a dirt
> road doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun to me, either. at the best, the
> trailer wheels are going to be tracking 2 completely different lines than
> the bicycle wheels, meaning you'd be having to watch not one or 2 lines, but
> at least 3 and sometimes 4. (even in the J**p i typically only have to watch
> 2 wheel-tracks most of the time,...)
>
> frankly, i'm with Steve on this; i don't find it fun to travel by bicycle
> with very much weight. if i had so much stuff that i needed to pull a
> trailer, i'd probably already be over the line towards a miserable
> experience, but especially wouldn't attempt it in the dirt with any trailer
> that had more than one wheel. (i've dragged a Bob/Yak trailer around and
> it's do-able, but whether or not it's "fun" is arguable.)
>
>
> cheers!
> e