This has two advantages – it means you can still use the luggage rack on the back of your bike, and any rear mounted bike light is not obscured by the the trailer.

For more than a decade I regularly blogged about UK and EU politics, and Brexit – that blog has been moved to euroblog. This safe and comfy safety seat does come with slots and makes fastening the seat with the allocated straps super-easy. If you are hauling large or uneven cargo, you just need to unclip the cover from the trailer, load, secure your items, and you're ready to roll — you'll still have plenty of room for larger or longer items to stick out of the back of the trailer. Pet bike carrier: this dog bicycle trailer is ideal for getting small dogs and pets who find it hard to walk out and about, easily attaches to your bike.Most of the time the trailer is just collecting dust, but it provides a lot of the freedom commonly ascribed to cars. For intermittent use like that I think it makes more sense than a cargo bicycle (and definitely cheaper).

This means you can have your product delivered to family, friends or the office if you are not at home in the daytime. From there, loading is easy (aided by a kickstand), and a stretchy cargo net helps keep everything safely secured. When the coupling is attached to the bicycle, you can hang the Roland trailer behind the bicycle without tools. OK down side the hubs are steel and started to rust after 18 months and I keep in in the garage and has never been wet, but with a quick clean up and some black paint job sorted, other than that it does a find job.The rugged construction, stretchy cargo net, kickstand, and one-handed hitching make most applications easy. With some bicycle trailers, like the Roland Big-Boy with its 90-liter capacity, you can remove the transport container, making the folding process a lot easier. You can use a prominent U-lock for this purpose, in addition to threading a cable lock through the wheels and frame and tethering it to your bicycle or a fixed object. If your dog is larger and heavier than a Labrador, like a Great Dane for example, the Kid’s Touring Doggy Tourer XL might be a better pick. Brian is a mountain athlete for all seasons and can be found on everything from alpine ridge climbs to ski tours to bike-packing ultra races.

The largest dog bicycle trailer in our range is the Kid’s Touring Doggy Tourer XL, which weighs 17 kg, while the Doggy Ride Mini (ideal for smaller dogs) weighs only 9.The impressive Aosom Wanderer offers the highest stated weight-bearing capacity of all trailers we tested — 110 pounds.