Last major initial test for the Innergy - can I deliver herbs on it? Not so much a test for the bike, but for the whole concept - can we can the car?
Herbs are fragile, our road is rough, Australia can be hot, and my buyer wants fresh herbs - not pesto.
The morning was cold. My hands froze as we picked the rocket and dill. But the temperature was in the high teens by the time I hit the road. We packed the herbs in buckets and then put them in the coolbox on the croozer trailer.
Six kms of bumpy lumpy dirt later and I opened the box. Riding the road had rattled me but the herbs looked fine. A few bruised leaves where they rubbed the bucket edges but otherwise undamaged.
The remaining 24 km was sealed. The herbs were just as fresh when I reached the delivery point. Total trip time was an hour and a half (I stopped to pick up some raspberry canes at the garden centre).
More important - I was still fresh. I had the energy to attend a two hour workshop before cycling the 30 km home.
The only drama was a loose nut holding the trailer mounting bracket. I had to stop and loan a spanner off someone to tighten it. I will monitor that.
I reckon I will be able to transport about 100+ bunches of herbs in one layer in my current cool box - or about 10 kg. With the trailer and cool box that would be a total load of around 30 kg. I already know I can comfortably pull 50 kg on the Innergy. With a longer trailer and coolbox I suspect I could more than double the herb payload.
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI recently bought a Gazelle Innergy, it is the Orange pure model. I am looking to do a trailer hookup to it with an existing trailer that I own and I am wondering how you were able to accomplish the attachment of your trailer. It looks like you have it mounted via the hub bolt on the back of the wheel.
I live in Portland, Oregon and the shop I bought my bike at, Clever Cycles told me that there is a special washer that sits between the red-tipped nut that fastens to the hub bolt that is designed to immobilize the bolt from rotating within the hub and that it is not advisable to remove it in order to accommodate any additional hardware, such as a trailer hitch. Perhaps this is the cause of your loose nut that you experienced.
Anyway, I was just curious if you tried attaching your trailer via the hub bolt by unscrewing the red-tipped nut and placing the hitch on the bolt, then refastening the nut again. Looks from the picture that this is how you attached it.
Thanks for any feedback.
Erik
Portland, OR
Hi Erik - please see my most recent post regarding the use of the trailer. I attached mine exactly as you indicated in your last paragraph
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