Fun with Bike Trailers

On the 9th and 10th of June, Greener Leith held a Bike Trailer Workshop for 11 local volunteers recruited from the Greener Leith Social in the marvelous workshop at the Duncan Place Resource Centre. Working incredibly hard, in just six hours we managed to put together 10 simple bike trailers capable of carrying almost anything. Why? Well, in our travel surveys we noticed that lots of Leithers mainly use their car to for leisure and shopping purposes, so we thought we'd do something to demonstrate that you can carry almost anything on a bike with a little imagination - as the short film clip below demonstrates! 

Look out for these trailers in the Leith Festival Parade tomorrow. You'll also be able to try one out at our stall at the gala day. We have a couple of spare trailers left over from the workshop. We plan to auction them off to raise funds for Greener Leith, so if you want one - please do keep an eye on this blog for more information.

Nick Lobnitz, inventor of the carry freedom bike trailer, and all round Bike design guru, led the workshop and filled our brains with all sorts of load carrying facts as we worked. He's agreed to write a guest post for the Greener Leith blog that will provide the design and instructions for building the same trailer that we made in our workshop soon. In the meantime, you can listen to an audio interview with him conducted at the end of our workshop below:

There are more photos from the course in the Greener Leith photo pool on Flickr.com