What do I need to buy to make something like this
What do I need to buy to make something like this
Author
Discussion

Spare tyre

Original Poster:

12,556 posts

159 months

Friday 14th May 2021
quotequote all
I have an old erde trailer base that I’d like to make the following with

What do I search for on the web for the channels for the tyres to fit in

Also the frame, is there something I can buy for that and bolt together - no welding / special equipment needed.

Any tips or tricks would be appreciated

Would need to be stainless I guess

fttm

4,562 posts

164 months

Friday 14th May 2021
quotequote all
Aluminium would be my choice , HE30 spec . Try a local road sign manufacturer ?

gareth_r

6,741 posts

266 months

Saturday 15th May 2021
quotequote all
You can buy mild steel, stainless steel, or aluminium channel and square tube.

If you buy mild steel and do the cutting yourself (perhaps add a couple of fore and aft diagonal braces) , I would have thought that it wouldn't be too expensive to have it welded. Worth enquiring, anyway.

I've seen clamp together handrails - like smaller diameter scaffold - that might work for the frame.

johnpsanderson

833 posts

229 months

Saturday 15th May 2021
quotequote all
Might be easier to buy some bike racks, as would be used in roof bars, and fasten them on? You could probably do that just by drilling and bolting into the trailer chassis.

What’s in the picture doesn’t seem to have a clamp for the frame/downtube and I would want to have something firmly - but sympathetically - securing the bike,which a ‘proper’ bike rack will have.

biggiles

2,159 posts

254 months

Saturday 15th May 2021
quotequote all
johnpsanderson said:
Might be easier to buy some bike racks, as would be used in roof bars, and fasten them on? You could probably do that just by drilling and bolting into the trailer chassis.

What’s in the picture doesn’t seem to have a clamp for the frame/downtube and I would want to have something firmly - but sympathetically - securing the bike,which a ‘proper’ bike rack will have.
This seems a much better idea. That trailer doesn't look like a great way to transport bikes.

Roof bike mounts would be much easier. If struggling to fit them, then put some basic roof bars across your trailer.

Mr Pointy

13,359 posts

188 months

Saturday 15th May 2021
quotequote all
Just search for "stainless U channel":

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=stainless+u+c...