MikeyMK

Yeah I first made it for the Avenir Cleveland child's trailer several years ago. Used to take my daughter to nursery, it was too bumpy for her as standard. I made a pair of simple scissor springs out of alloy. You'd think they'd snap but they're still good.

At first this made the trailer far too high, so I had to mount the wheels on drop links. All in alloy..

Before


After


She loved it but got too big for it, so I put her on the back of a mountain bike..



Then I made a SWB tandem, now 8yo she travels on the back of this..



So with no need for it anymore, it came to making the big cargo trailer. I whipped the springs off the little one's frame, added some hefty barrow wheels I'd used briefly on hers, and transferred it all over...





It takes all my bodyweight to get it on the bump stops, then releases back to about 5.5ins.

I painted a sheet of cardboard with fibreglass resin, and that's done as a floor, but it's cracking up after a bit of graft. It needs a proper box really, but I don't have the room to store it unless it's flat.