Giving up the Venture. It's too heavy.

[doc]

That had you worried.

So what do you do as age catches up with you and you just can't hold up a bike as heavy as ours?

www.winglandinggear.com/

Though I do prefer ghost wheels here: www.safetyfeatures.com/ and their "safe stop" system doesn't look like training wheels off a kidy bike then winglanders too.

[winghunter]

:

Was shocked as I was reading your announcement ;D ;D ;D

I know, there was a "Venture kit" available in the past. With that kit you could change a Venture within minutes into a threeweeler.

Or do it in another way : Pump up your muscles ;D ;D ;D

[Falko]

Hey man - dont make such jokes...
i thought.....


but after all - its funny...

[doc]

Well I have been thinking of a trailer, but the problem is they push the bike as you come to a stop and you end up having to walk it a little.

I was thinking about a double bearing type tow hitch that would move freely on the horizontal bearing but had a solinoid to throw in a lock pin on the vertical bearing when comming to a stop.

[bunnie]

I put up a link of a dutch trailer site recently with a dozen types of trailers

[winghunter]

Bunnie, but the looking of most of those trailers

[doc]

bunnie said:

I put up a link of a dutch trailer site recently with a dozen types of trailers

That link helped a lot Bunnie.

Looking at the trailers there I'm in the middle of designing a rotary towing linkage that goes on in place of the hitch, with a disc brake to lock it off as I stop.
Just link that in with a thumb lever and lock the bike upright when stopping or slow manoeuvring.

Some outriggers running out and forward from the same mount and I could make my own version of ghost wheels but interchangeable with the trailer.
People who tow with ghost wheels end up with 6 wheels on the road, I want to keep it down to 4.

[valhalla]

Buy a trike conversion from Colin Appleyard here in the UK