Cargo trailer for shopping

[DavidW1001]

Can anyone suggest a bike trailer that has a lockable container fitted to the trailer? I want to be able to shop, put stuff in the trailer, lock the container, and go off for more shopping.

This also means the trailer itself needs to be lockable so the whole trailer can’t be stolen.

In a perfect world I’d be able to detach the bike quickly and go off leaving the trailer and box both locked up.

Not for very long distances but local road surfaces are poor so wheels shouldn’t be very small.

Thanks for reading.

[Jdsk]

Welcome.

How about breaking the problem into two parts: choosing a flat-bed trailer and finding a lockable box that will fit in it?

There's a lot in the archives on the first of those. Can you find a type that looks right for you?

Jonathan

[Carlton green]

JDSK beat me to the suggestion of a box or case bolted onto a conventional flat bed trailer. One guy on here went from Land’s End to John o’ Groats with a small trailer onto which a suitcase was attached. A motor cycle top box might work well on a trailer too. Obviously both are lockable.

As for searching the archives I’m not sure what terms to put in, but some suggestions will doubtless follow from other folk.

If what you really want to be able to do is move shopping about then there are many alternatives available. I’ve used a large back pack with success and have a large open box on my rack (if necessary then bags could be lifted out and taken with me into further shops that I visit).

[rjb]

Like Mick's,

An aluminium box on a carry freedom trailer.

[DavidW1001]

Like Mick's,

An aluminium box on a carry freedom trailer.

That looks really interesting. Can you post more details about the set-up please if you have time.

[Outlaw13]

Maybe look at the Burley Travoy trailer and use it like a shopping trolley and take it into the shops with you?

[Mick F]

Hi, it's me!

I bought a Carry Freedom tailer quite some years ago. I did LEJOG and back and a couple of other tours with it but with an orange suitcase strapped down on the load-bed.

I made a wooden box for it as a utility thingy. Not waterproof!

Eventually, I bought the aluminium box. Sorry, can't remember which website I bought it from. It has two catches and they will take a padlock. I had to make another load-bed so I could drill and screw the box down. I used tap washers to make the holes waterproof.

Here it is again at JOG with my Raleigh Chopper.

[Jdsk]

This was my first thought and led to my suggestion.

Let's see if the OP returns,

Jonathan

[mjr]

Why flat bed? Any trailer would work with a box that fitted in the frame.

[DavidW1001]

Hi, it's me!

I bought a Carry Freedom tailer quite some years ago. I did LEJOG and back and a couple of other tours with it but with an orange suitcase strapped down on the load-bed.

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I made a wooden box for it as a utility thingy. Not waterproof!
Wooden Box.JPG

Eventually, I bought the aluminium box. Sorry, can't remember which website I bought it from. It has two catches and they will take a padlock. I had to make another load-bed so I could drill and screw the box down. I used tap washers to make the holes waterproof.

Alu .

Here it is again at JOG with my Raleigh Chopper.JOG.jpg

Many thanks Mick. Much appreciated and well done.

[Tigerbiten]

I've also bolted an aluminium cargo box to a carry freedom trailer.
Works well and I've done multi-thousand miles tours with it.
Downside it almost doubles the price of the trailer.
The large carry freedom trailer is now £470 and box that fits is around £400, so not cheap.

Do you need an aluminium box ??
I'd just get a second hand kiddy trailer, take the seat out and put a solid base in it.
Then just close the front when you have shopping in it.
Unless your in a very iffy area that should work if you cannot see what's in the trailer.

Luck ....

[Carlton green]

I've also bolted an aluminium cargo box to a carry freedom trailer.
Works well and I've done multi-thousand miles tours with it.
Downside it almost doubles the price of the trailer.
The large carry freedom trailer is now £470 and box that fits is around £400, so not cheap.

Do you need an aluminium box ??
I'd just get a second hand kiddy trailer, take the seat out and put a solid base in it.
Then just close the front when you have shopping in it.
Unless your in a very iffy area that should work if you cannot see what's in the trailer.

Luck ....

I like the ideas and philosophy, thank you.

To my mind the first rule of security is don’t have anything that looks worth stealing and the second rule is let whatever you have be unobtrusively sheltered in some way (so unnoticed or hidden in full sight). Theft happens and folk are opportunistic, some folk are much much more ‘light fingered’ than others so be selective about where you leave stuff. An unattended big shiny box with big padlocks on it screams ‘there’s some valuable in me’ …

[Mick F]

Why flat bed? Any trailer would work with a box that fitted in the frame.

With the CF trailer, all it is a sort of "crucifix" as a chassis.
I used a piece of plywood drilled to fit the chassis, and then I drilled and screwed my box to it. The plywood fitted inside the bottom lip of the box as a nice secure way of doing it.

The CF trailer comes with a load-bed so you can put anything on it ................... even two concrete blocks for training value!

[Mick F]

PS:
I started a blog about trailers, but gave up on it.

http://trailer-man.blogspot.com

[thirdcrank]