Glen, one of our readers brought this cycle trailer from the 1940s to my attention as well as this cool blog that is called Modern Mechanix – Yesterday’s Tomorrow Today.
This page is dedicated to trailers and has many cool ideas from the good old days that we can apply to our thinking today.
Photo and verbiage courtesy of Modern Mechanix.
Cyclist Takes Bed Along in Homemade Trailer
Towing his sleeping quarters behind him in a compact trailer, an eighteen-year-old cyclist of Menominee, Michigan, recently traveled nearly 1,200 miles to Boston, Massachusetts, economically and comfortably. Post cards that he sold to curious spectators paid for his supplies during the fourteen-day journey. Streamline in shape, the sturdy trailer is a homemade product of his own design. He is shown above demonstrating his sleeping quarters to an admiring hotel doorman.
Neat little trailer for a bike…probably pretty claustrophobia inducing but a lot like a teardrop…check out that bike…a single speed…probably a pretty rough 1200 miles over some hills and rises….great article….thanks
And, it says he made the trip in 14 days! With 2 rest days, that’s 100 miles a day!!!!!
Great website and some wonderful designs. The bed trailer for the bike would be perfect for Burning Man. 🙂
Seen Brian Campbell’s RV bike? http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/bike-trailer-homes.php
Yes Gregg, I reported on it in an earlier blog post, you can view it here: http://tinyhouseblog.com/tiny-house/brians-bike-motorhome/
Thanks for the heads up though as I did not realize treehugger had grabbed the story too.
What a kid. He was only 18 and he did it on a single speed bike. Today he would have been robbed and beaten. That was a great generation back then. Good article
one of my friends made his way from Portland to Madison WI in 26 days on a fixed gear. didn’t get robbed or beaten. Times haven’t changed at all. only the medium for communication. T.V. and internet make the world much smaller, and the shootings and robberies seam much closer to your front door.