Love of cars puts brakes on bike culture

wrote in message
oups.com...

Terry Collins wrote:
wrote:

Bicycle cart of course
http://www.bikesandtrailers.com/bike...ers/index.html

Sadly, no weight ratings.
My 2c says that none on them look up to the job.

I think you're right. I should have checked that link.

This one from Bikes at Work may be better but I must admitt I don't
know what a 44 gal drum of cooking oil would weight. It might come in
around 300 lb? I estimate a drum of water at about 200lb.
http://www.bikesatwork.com/


But I did get some ideas for yet another style to build aka, a trailer
that looks like a suitcase to State Rail.

Now that is a good idea.


Well 44 gallons is about 168 litres, which, in water, is of course 168kg
(~370lb) plus whatever the drum itself weighs...about 10kg? Maybe 20kg? Oil
is less dense than water (one site about biodiesel quotes a specific density
of .910, which sounds about right) so that gives us a weight of about 153kg
(336lb) plus the weight of the drum. You'd need a hefty trailer and good
brakes

" wrote
in oups.com:


Terry Collins wrote:
wrote:

Bicycle cart of course
http://www.bikesandtrailers.com/bike...ers/index.html

Sadly, no weight ratings.
My 2c says that none on them look up to the job.

I think you're right. I should have checked that link.

This one from Bikes at Work may be better but I must admitt I don't
know what a 44 gal drum of cooking oil would weight. It might come in
around 300 lb? I estimate a drum of water at about 200lb.
http://www.bikesatwork.com/


But I did get some ideas for yet another style to build aka, a
trailer
that looks like a suitcase to State Rail.

Now that is a good idea.


I was going to challange the maths and provide a more accurate answer or
some such sh*t. Instead I checked out the link in the post. Really
interesting stuff - thanks for that.

Cheers
BrettM