Do-it-yourself scooter trailer - a necessary household item
About how I cut down a trailer for a scooter without drawings from my mom and dad and loans from what I had, the simple purpose was to carry anything that didn’t fit on the moped.
in my case, for transporting ferrous metal - you can evaluate what happened. And I made it from what I had and had to buy a little more.
But the wheels from the ant had to be purchased from scrap metal
The design is simple, from a corner I cooked it myself
The body itself was made from boards from an old pallet
The most confusing and complex thing, of course, is the tow hitch; it must be reliable, functional and quickly detachable
I messed around with it but it all worked out
Complete freedom of fastening ensures good connection performance when turning.
and even in unusual situations when a cart or scooter turns over, the connection works as expected
Well, this is what we ended up with - a small trailer for a scooter.
Who is interested in watching the creation process itself, here is the full video
Transportation of ferrous metal. I think the variator will be damned in the future
one large vertical bolt that can be pulled out - unscrew one nut in short
You're a genius BRO. Super badass. Cool.
Metal scrapper 80 lvl!
How and where to buy a trailer
The design of the trailer itself is not distinguished by any special design idea; it is quite simple to assemble and for installation on a moped. You can purchase it at any motorcycle store in the city, or order it online. Well, those who want to save money can assemble such a stroller themselves.
Homemade side trailer
Prices for an Alpha moped already assembled with a side trailer fluctuate around $500-600. Separately, a side trailer will cost from 100 to 150 in the same monetary terms. It is interesting that such a difference in price is not caused by the difference in the models of the trailer stroller, but by a banal markup of the reseller store. Therefore, you should not rush to make a purchase in the first store that comes to hand; it is better to spend a little time and save the same, but 50 dollars. They won't be redundant.
How I made a car trailer with my own hands.
Registration of a self-made passenger trailer with preliminary examination turned out to be a solvable task! A self-made passenger trailer is better than a serial trailer! A video about how, having no money to buy a passenger trailer with a high load capacity, I had to use a creative approach and two months later I became the owner of a trailer that I am 100% confident in. Of course, it was not possible to fit into the budget of 100 bucks, but the trailer turned out to have very serious characteristics and it is worth comparing it rather with car transporter trailers. You must understand that a passenger trailer is just an iron cart! Due to ready-made components (trunnions, springs, bearings, coupling devices, shock absorbers, wheels) and simple tools (welding, grinders, drills), it is much easier to manufacture than its wooden ancestor.
Now there is an idea to make a removable living unit in the Teardrop style. I am engaged in the selection of optimal materials for this task.
Project “Motortrain”, one-wheeled trailer for a motorcycle
It all started when I got tired of going on picnics loaded down like Eeyore. There is enough space under your feet in the scooter, a lot of things can fit in there, but you have to use the techniques of the fascinating Kama Sutra to ride.
It was decided to make a trailer. The two-wheeled option was immediately discarded, because... When traveling over rough terrain, the load on the motorcycle increases; you have to lay two tracks instead of using one.
A version of a one-wheel trailer was put into work; the idea was borrowed from the Internet. Because There was no pipe bender at hand, so the frame was welded from a square twenty pipe. I invented the bicycle myself, so I first cut the fragments according to the developed drawing, so that later a professional would put it all together. As he later explained to me, everything could have been done simpler, but since your hands are itching, why not scratch them.
After the assembly began, the thought came to me that the creation process should be recorded, darting like a hog behind the camera, I managed to photograph most of the stages
The first photos - a set of scrap metal “crazy hands” began to take on the shape of a product.
Then the swivel hitch assembly was welded, we had to cut off the crosspiece with forks from the Kumovsky Zhiguli driveshaft with swearing and singing
Then I thought about it and decided that the pocket did not have enough reserve and the central jumper was pinned into the frame, just in case, for rigidity
Homemade cargo trailer for motorcycle
A trailer can be made even at home with minimal use of metal-cutting machines - if you only have a welding machine, an electric drill and bench tools.
Fig.1. General view of a homemade motorcycle trailer:
1 — ball joint; 2 - drawbar; 3 — reflectors (6 pcs.); 4 — body side (plywood, s 16); 5 — wing (steel 15, s2); 6 — FP-132 flashlight; 7 — bracket (StZ, rod 010); 8 — wheel (3.5×18″); 9 — front support mounting bracket (StZ, sheet s5); 10 — front support (steel 15, pipe 20x20x2.5); 11 — electrical connector ONTs-VN; 12 — safety chain; 13 — wing mounting bracket (StZ, strip 40×5); 14 — mudguard; 15 — torsion bar units.
We had to abandon the balancer wheel suspension and use a torsion bar one. It is difficult to make a torsion bar with your own hands, so I took two such units from old BP-65 motorcycle side trailers. I dismantled the collet attachment points to the stroller frame and put plugs in their place, and connected the bodies together with six jumpers. Moreover, the distance of 168 mm between the axes of the torsion bars and the corresponding wheels was found purely geometrically: a perpendicular lowered from the coupling point to the line connecting the points of contact of the wheels of the road surface (with a combined track of the trailer and the tractor) divides it in half; track width is 1100 mm; the displacement of the hitch assembly relative to the trailer axis is 225 mm, and the distance between the center of the hitch assembly and the axis of the left wheel is 1560 mm. It turned out to be a good rigid bridge.
Fig.2. Diagram for finding the distance between the axles of the trailer wheels.
The welded frame of the trailer, made mainly of rectangular steel pipes, consists of the actual frame of the cargo platform with side posts, a drawbar with a strut and supports to which the bridge is welded, also reinforced with struts. The length of the front and rear struts depends on the side of the trailer - left or right.
Fig.3. Modified torsion bar assembly of the BP-65 trailer:
1 — torsion shaft coupling; 2 — torsion shaft; 3 — connecting rod axis; 4 — flange bushing; 5 - oil seal; 6 — connecting rod; 7 - buffer; 8 — flange bushing, small; 9 — body; 10 — adjusting bolt (3 pcs.); 11 — plug (StZ, sheet s5); 12 — shaft support bushing; 13 — thrust washer; 14 — retaining ring; 15 - oiler.
The body is made of multilayer plywood. Its front and side sides are attached to the racks of the cargo platform with bolts and screws, and the rear (reclining) side is attached to four hinged hinges. Homemade trailer wings are welded from sheet steel and fixed to the frame with three brackets each.
Fig.4. Homemade motorcycle trailer frame:
1 — drawbar (steel 15, pipe 40×4); 2 — scarves (StZ, strip 40×5); 3 — drawbar strut (steel 15, pipe 20x20x2.5); 4 - transverse beams (steel 15, pipe 20x20x2.5); 5 — spar (steel 15, pipe 20x20x2.5); 6 — tailgate hinges; 7 — torsion bar jumpers (StZ, sheet s5, 6 pcs.); 8 — torsion units; 9.13 — support struts (steel 15, pipe 20x20x2.5); 10 — connecting rod of the wheel suspension; 11 — wheel axle; 12 — support post (steel 15, pipe 40x20x2.5); 14 — side posts (steel 15, pipe 20x20x2.5).
The wheels are the same as those of a towing motorcycle, equipped with drum brakes actuated by the foot brake pedal using cable wiring.
The coupling device showed its good side - it is very reliable even when driving on a dirt road with a slightly overloaded trailer.
Making a trailer for a moped is as easy as shelling pears
Owners of mopeds need to remember that traffic regulations prohibit attaching a trailer to their vehicle. But outside the city limits, people often break the rules and hitch trailers, because it is very convenient for transporting vegetables, construction materials and other luggage. At first it will be a little inconvenient to drive with a homemade trailer, but then everything will fall into place.
Materials and tools for homemade work: • medium-sized cart. It should have wheels of about 8 inches and a trailing clearance of 30 cm; • welding machine; • saw; • jigsaw; • paint, • hammer.
Moped trailer manufacturing process:
When all the necessary devices have been assembled, we proceed directly to making the homemade product.
Step 1. Preparing the base
The cart capacity needs to be removed. Then you need to weld a frame from a pipe and a metal corner and attach it to the cart. The pipe will be the trailer's drawbar, and the frame will be a regular square-shaped frame with recesses for the wheels.
Step 3. Selecting and installing wheels
If you have a small budget, you can use the wheels that were on the construction cart. It is only necessary to strengthen the rims and replace the standard bearings with better ones. In practice, such wheels have proven themselves quite well, however, there have often been cases where the tire burst along the tread.
If financial capabilities allow, then it is best to purchase tubeless moped wheels. It’s best to install them right away; sooner or later the cart wheels will become unusable, but these ones will last much longer.
How to make a scooter trailer with your own hands
Dear visitors to the “ Samadekin Friend ” website, today we will look at detailed instructions on how to make a scooter trailer with your own hands. This scooter trailer is made of aluminum profile, namely its frame and coupling device, an aluminum box with a capacity of 100 liters is used as the body, the total weight of the trailer with payload is about 75 kg, has a registration number plate, backlight, brake light and turn signals . The design is a one-wheel trailer with a rotating coupling device.
Traveling on a scooter is very good; at its low speed you can clearly see the surrounding landscape and fully enjoy the beauty of nature, but the problem is that it is impossible to take a lot of payload with you, but only a backpack on your back. For this reason, it was decided to make a compact and lightweight aluminum TRAILER .
The frame is argon welded from an aluminum profile, a front wheel from a scooter is installed, and an aluminum box is used as a body. The swivel hitch is made from a wheel stand from a grocery shopping cart.
Materials
- aluminum profile
- scooter front wheel
- aluminum box with a capacity of 100 l
- brake light and turn signals
- swivel stand with wheel from a grocery cart
Tools
- argon arc welding
- corner
- hacksaw for metal
- ruler
- marker
- set of wrenches
- screwdriver
Sidecar trailer for Alpha moped
Let's start our publication with a photo report on how to make a sidecar on the Alfa moto . To save money, the moped trailer is made from scraps of pipes and profiles, and if desired, it can be made more neat and practical. The hub for the one-wheel trailer was taken from a VAZ car and welded with reinforced gussets. As you can see, the wheel is also Zhiguli. The side wheelchair trailer for the Alpha moped itself is simple in design and making it with your own hands will not be particularly difficult. There will be more problems with where to attach this stroller to the moped.
In this version, a reinforcing frame is welded to the Alpha frame (see photo).
This frame is attached at three points:
- Under the fuel tank where the bars are attached from the factory.
- At the bottom of the moped, where the central stand is installed. To attach the trailer, you need to remove the step and weld a plate, and a piece of pipe to the plate.
- We screw the stroller to the shock absorber mounting location.
To prevent the steering wheel from moving, homemade rods were made from tubes. M12 nuts are welded into them for screwing in the rod studs. By turning the studs you can adjust the moped trailer.
This side trailer for the Alfa was made in a hurry and will undoubtedly be improved over time. It can carry cargo up to 500 kg. To transport small-sized cargo, it is possible to make a wooden box (as in the example of a homemade wheelchair trailer).
Delivery of materials for a homemade stroller can be carried out by Avtotrans.
DIY motorcycle trailer
A video review of a self-made trailer for a scooter or motorcycle, which is made from a garden cart, has appeared on the nespokoyniy channel.
There was a single-axle garden cart, I bought a second wheel, made an axle, two wheels, because it was impossible to carry on one. There was originally an axle, and there was a wheel. There was a one-wheeled car.
I secured the axle in a simple way - I welded the corners from the supports from the place where the axle was, and moved it 20 cm under the cart so that the load was more evenly distributed on the moped and on the load itself, which is on the cart. I made the hitch this way - the moped already had three attachment points. The bolts are inside, the arc comes out here. This is a standard bolt - this is all standard. I welded a triangular structure - shank, shank, and support. A hole, and just a nut, a cotter pin. It's better to put a pin here, of course. The rod bent with the thread was already a strong, hardened rod, so it would not straighten out even under a heavy load.
It turned out to be three degrees of freedom - the axis when you turn left and right, up and down. When the cart is tilted in different planes relative to the moped. It turns out three - let's move it and see what happens. Here it is, free, no distortions, nothing jams.
Initially, when I tried to carry 100 kg, the motorcycle did not feel the weight and rode easily. Two people on a moped are much heavier than carrying 100 on a trailer. There was an ordinary handle, made of two horns - I just welded the handle to the pipe and put it on the bolts. At first I thought when to carry it - to remove it, but it turns out that you can carry it around by unhooking it from the motorcycle. We carry it like a simple two-wheeled wheelbarrow. So I adapted a cart in which soil and other things can be transported.
Trailer device
The standard side trailer of an Alfa moped consists of just a few simple components:
- welded frame;
- pendulum suspension;
- wheel on disk;
- ball joints;
- adjusting rods.
Side trailer for Alpha moped
The structure itself is rigid, since the manufacturer does not install any shock absorbers or other dampers on it. Although, if you wish, all this is very easy to do yourself.
The side trailer on the Alpha moped, according to the manufacturer’s documentation, is designed for transportation weighing one hundred kilograms. These limitations are not due to the fact that the power of the moped engine does not allow it to transport more, but to the fact that the standard fasteners to which the adjusting rods are attached are very weak. If you load the trailer more than expected, you can simply break off the fastenings . But this is the case if the trailer or moped together with the trailer was purchased with installation from the manufacturer. By assembling the cradle for the moped with your own hands, all this can be taken into account and improved.
Side trailer design
Multi-Task Motorcycle Trailer
A long time ago, my brother wanted an efficient way to deliver newspapers along the road route and maybe also a way to get his two beagles to the dog park on his motorcycle. Side hacks and trailers were discussed, and finally we chose a trailer that fit the bill.
While exploring, we came across a one-wheel trailer. Several of them were for scooters and motorcycles. Lots of good ideas here, some of which were incorporated into my trailer design.
I thought something like this would be great for carrying things while traveling. Now that I'm retired, I seem to have the free time to take longer trips. So, after some thought, some sketching, and some specifications in mind, I contracted with a welder to build my trailer.
Close the hitch point. This high hitch height presented some problems. But I managed with what I had, and there are other trailers that are being lifted successfully. I may have installed the hitch lower after some time. It will take some time to figure out how to fit the hitch attachment into the available space without cutting holes in the plastic. This hitch has been slightly modified since this picture appeared. Some reinforcement was added to prevent the rear fender mounted tongue from bending, and closer tolerance bolts were used to remove any loose play in the fittings. This would allow for some pretty severe trailer wobble without these fixes. But now everything is fine.
