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Not quite, but I have made racks both to hold crutches and on a different bike, a pop up (disc) tent which had tyres stored above, but all hinged so the dome tent could be easily removed.
Presuming you won't be taking pillions at the same time, I'd take the wheels off and stick them one side, where panniers/a pillion's legs would be. Then the other side I'd mount the frame, with the bars turned sidways probably.
I've also carried a couple of sets of skis on my bike. Mounted them each side on the panniers I had, so they were outside my legs. But shoudn't need to go that far for a bike.
I'm presuming a car isn't possible for economic reasons. If a car was a possibility, I'd definitely go for that - no getting in to bike clothing while sweaty, etc, for a start. |
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| G wrote: | Have to get a car moved too if you hurt yourself, which may be more hassle than a motorbike. |
Perhaps; depends how you were hurt. Driven back from enough trials, bruised & bleeding, I wouldn't want to be riding a bike back from!
As for getting car home, if I couldn't drive; mobile 'phone has telephone numbers of at least half a dozen people I know have full car licences, and insurance with 'any vehicle with owners concent' extension; dead easy to make a phone call and have my Step-Dad drop my Mum off to drive my car home...
Dont know QUITE as many people with full bike licences, and even fewer I could be sure had insurance cover, to ride bike home.....
Alternative would be to get some-one with car to come out with trailer or rack... or down to calling out recovery.
https://lp1.pinkbike.org/p4pb5963774/p4pb5963774.jpg
(Hint: right click on the mouse over picture; scroll down diaglogue box to 'Copy Image URL', go to your post; click 'paste' then highlight the addy and click 'Img' from the tag buttons, or add {img} only with ] brackets infront, {/img} after)
Think that would be classed as a trailer in the eyes of the plod: would probably mean the 'trailer' had to have speed rated tyres fitted (which puch bike tyres aren't) and towing regs would apply, which may mean it legally has to have trailer lights & number-plate.
I'm not familiar with all the intricacies of the towing laws these days, even less motor-bike towing; but pretty sure you also cant tow anything if you have L-Plates.
https://lp1.pinkbike.org/p4pb4758702/p4pb4758702.jpg
That-one looks like an accident waiting to happen!
https://lp1.pinkbike.org/p4pb5647580/p4pb5647580.jpg
That looks 'reasonable', but I think you 'ought' to have a warning flag or reflector on an 'over hanging load'
G's comment of putting frame on a panier rack one side & wheels on panier rack the other, keeping weight low and overhang to a minimum, sounds most sensible to me...
BUT; 25 miles FFS! That's barely a warm up SURELY! Why not frigging cycle there and back! My 'lads' when they were still at school were doing those kind of miles in two-hour Cross-Country events of an evening!
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Thanks Tef'.
The frame on that Kwak is my preffered option, for obvious reasons.
25miles on a Full-Sus downhill bike is likely to take me best part of 4 hours to do. Being unfit is probably the highest contributing factor for such a travel time.
I'm making a wild assumption that you haven't ridden a bike with 7" suspension travel front and rear, mega knobbly tyres, 9spd close ratio gears and a seat that cant go higher than its lowest point all in addition to wearing/carrying body armour, full-face helmet, tools/spares and a days worth of food and drink rations for any real length... I can vouch as i have done, and it's more knackering than actually riding for fitness!
The bike is designed for going downhill and over jumps, as am I!
25 miles for me is like 100miles for a normal person!
And being totally fucking knackered when i turn up to do a days/evenings riding on dirt isn't going to be ideal 
In addition, I was looking at the possibilities of going over to ride in the evenings, after a day at uni/work. And given then, that cuts my potential riding hours from a realistic 12 hour day, to 4 maximum in the evening.
Would much rather use petrol to get there!
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The last post was made 13 years, 197 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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