It's cute, I give it that. But my free advice is: Don't waste your money; especially if you have ideas of towing that in the US. Last week here in NJ, we had consistent winds at 30, gusting to near 50. MPH, not KMH; as the storm line that caused so much devastation and death in a 250 mile swath in our country's mid-section, headed east into Kentucky. That front, after crossing the eastern continental divide, still had a strong punch when it traveled over NY, PA and NJ.
Prevailing northwest winds blowing down from Arctic Canada from November till Spring. That arctic jet stream takes up the entire midwest, down into Texas and on into the entire east coast from which then we transition into tornado season... Once the spring tornadoes peter out; the east coast moves into Hurricane season. Oh, almost forgot. The east coast is susceptible to N'oreasters; which are basically baby versions of an Atlantic Hurricane. If you are in the wrong place at the wrong time in regards to these storms.......
Did I mention the prevailing winds that blow directly east come summertime in the Plains States???? Cross country cyclists always but always mention how that prevailing wind beats them down, mentally and physically.
This german trailer has a bed in it.
It has huge sides and the frontal cross-section .
That is a very smart thing you have questioned... Hmmm
Talking to people here has been so helpful. Having a bunch of solar panels on it, definitely would cause a lot of troubles with wind. So we gave up on that idea. Having this kind of a design like that German fella in the video, is also a problem because he basically is wasting valuable weight on having a bed and wooden door and walls. We will not do any of that now that we did some calculations, we realize how silly it all was in the beginning what we imagined and how little we knew about this stuff. We will not jump to any conclusions, we will of course do testings , and slowly decide how and where we go. Please understand this thread I made was exactly made for this reason to get criticism and so we can modify and change our plans and ideas. It is a speculative discussion that has helped us a lot actually.
So...
Since I planned to go out in Siberia with it and cycle through the U.S. I definitely would not make a trailer like that man. I just shared it because it was interesting.
Since we are making it with stars and stripes anyway, we might consider a full metal jacket kind of trailer. What else can penetrate through the entire Russian Siberia? Full metal jacket with stars and stripes on it
No air inside and just cargo and batteries (both the bike and the trailer should use the same batteries) and a more powerful engine. The surface area is very small and it should be elongated to reduce the air resistance because of the the frontal cross-section.
Further more, a such shape should allow it to be pulled as a sledge if one gets stuck in deep snow or mud. (the metal jacket will be below it, and on the top, a very very thin layer of metal or maybe some other lighter material. ) Since the "full metal jacket" trailer will be packed with cargo and batteries and have 0 cm3 of air in it... It will have low surface, high weight and will be more resistant to the winds.
We realized that sleeping in the trailer will make it very very hard to tow, this will be attached to the trailer on it's lateral side:
Also I contacted one lawyer and he told me the following:
1. you can install any kind of an engine in your bike and make it as powerful as you want, what matters is what you programmed and how it was running when it was on the street. HE also said about meeting some "heat" release standards idk
He told me these kinds of things are very important especially if one gets into an accident, he could get into a whole lot of trouble if the bike was using more W than allowed or drove faster than allowed.
2. He said that any engine can be programmed to pull more Watts so just an engine on its own cannot be judged whether it is legal or not.
3. He told me that having a 2000W engine programmed to use less W and to stop support at 25 kmph is legal in Germany. Because it does not matter how many Watts an engine can POTENTIALLY go up and how fast it can potentially reach. What matters is how much it was actually doing and if it was programmed to worked that way. He also said an excellent example are cars that have been reprogrammed and can provide you more horse power, even though you register them with less horse power. He says that kind of stuff is illegal but it serves to show that what an engine "can do" is not what cops, insurance and the state sees as what an engine is "actually doing" .
this what he said is about Germany. I will definitely keep doing some research on this topic.
