Green Cycle Trailer
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:19 pm
Hi all
I have just finished building a so called Green bike trailer, the concept of this trailer is to push a normal bike along in stead of converting the bike, I got the idear of the internet and as I am a welder and work in aley and stainless. I have always colected lots of junk and as I was thinking what I had in stock, I first fund some aley BMX wheels and tyers and a few difrent electric motors, and a leisure battery from my caravan, I first built a chassie out of some aley section and fitted the wheels, I have then to get a motor that will run on 12 volts so I tried to run a wiper motor but it did not have any speed so then I tried a motor out of an auto washing machein, when I put the power trough the feilds and the armacher it ran so slow it was no use, but when I put the power through the armacher only it runs at a good speed, and is just the right power how this happens to work is a mistery as it is not the norme, but it duse so as long as you pedel away, it gets up more and more speed the only thing I can put it down to is there must be some residual magnaticem in the feilds, that builds up as the power gets going it duse not need any speed control just a on off switch once up speed aply power and it maintains a brisk pace.
I have just finished building a so called Green bike trailer, the concept of this trailer is to push a normal bike along in stead of converting the bike, I got the idear of the internet and as I am a welder and work in aley and stainless. I have always colected lots of junk and as I was thinking what I had in stock, I first fund some aley BMX wheels and tyers and a few difrent electric motors, and a leisure battery from my caravan, I first built a chassie out of some aley section and fitted the wheels, I have then to get a motor that will run on 12 volts so I tried to run a wiper motor but it did not have any speed so then I tried a motor out of an auto washing machein, when I put the power trough the feilds and the armacher it ran so slow it was no use, but when I put the power through the armacher only it runs at a good speed, and is just the right power how this happens to work is a mistery as it is not the norme, but it duse so as long as you pedel away, it gets up more and more speed the only thing I can put it down to is there must be some residual magnaticem in the feilds, that builds up as the power gets going it duse not need any speed control just a on off switch once up speed aply power and it maintains a brisk pace.