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Bikes-at-Work Trailer

Posts about the modular 8 foot long bike trailer that can carry heavy, wide and long loads.

Carrying a twin size mattress on a bike trailer behind an electric cargo bike.

How to carry a mattress on a bike

A twin-sized mattress can be carried on a bike by using the Bikes-at-Work Trailer. If you need a bike trailer just temporarily, you may get lucky and live a city where one might be rented or borrowed. Call your local bike shop to ask around. In the photo above, I

Couch hunting: A cargo bike sport

Couch hunting: A cargo bike sport

Making sport of cleaning some of the biggest household junk out of our cities and towns. Works best if you have a city dump within biking distance Couch hunting rules 1. Cruise alleyways to find abandoned furniture. 2. Tie down acquired furniture to bike trailer or cargo bike 3. Proceed

A small couch strapped across a cargo bike. Ground is covered by orange leaves.

Hauling couches by bike

Couches are fun to haul by bike. Workcycle's bakfiets, pictured above, is not particularly well-suited for the task, as the couch is much too large to fix in the box. That didn’t stop it from being fun to make it work, anyway. The best choice for hauling

An electric Yuba Mundo cargo bike with a trailer full of e-waste

Hauling 800 lbs of e-waste with an electric cargo bike

I needed to move about 800 lbs of e-waste from a church where I had a project to collect it to a location a mile away where there was an annual RecycleForce e-waste collection drive. The Yuba Mundo is rated to carry over 400 lbs of cargo and the Bikes-at-Work

Picture of a bike towing a 32 foot ladder on a trailer

How to haul a 32 foot ladder

This was Ron’s solution for getting a 32 foot ladder home from the store. The store as only about 2 miles away, and the ladder weighs only about 50 pounds, so using a using 4,000 pound car seems like a particularly inefficient solution. That is, if Ron had

woman rides on full size coach being towed behind a recumbent bicycle

New Bikes-at-Work Trailer

My new eight foot cargo trailer from Bikes at Work. (See more photos on Flickr). It's rated to haul up to 300 lbs, or cargo up to 15' long. These trailers seem to make an appearance in so many bike move videos because of their ability to