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I got the mountain bike done a couple of days before Christmas, had to wait to ride it until I got back from volunteering at the L.A. Mission food fest. It is set up with road tires, and is sure a lot nicer ride than the old rigid frame one I still have.
I just got done with the bicycle trailer hitch revise today, and will add the non-skid padding in the bucket sometime this weekend. Haven't pulled it with the mountain bike yet, only the rigid frame/fork older 18 speed bike. This mountain bike is a Specialized, with front and rear suspension, 21 speed, and it rides great, considerig I paid 5 bucks for it, and it had been out in the weather, unprotected, for over 6 years, raiin, snow, sun.
I need to get going on the rest of my weight loss program, still have 15 pounds that refuse to simply get lost, and then, toning up all the muscles I have neglected for the better part of 3-1/2 decades. It is still too cold i my excercise room to get with the treadmill and Total Gym, and still not great for the bike, yet. If I go the shortest way to town, it is 7 miles, longest, 10. I have always liked riding bicycles, and really like it when the temperature outside is 90 + deg/F.
I like your hitch setup, I really enjoy persons that are as crazy/creative as I am, that figure it out, and make it themselves. I am reallly into figuring reasonable, workable, correct, LOW COST to NO COST solutions to complicated problems. I end up fixing all the stupidity done around this area, and where I used to live in So. Cal. Some can really make things seriously complicated, when the "Keep It Simple Solution" would have been leaps and bounds better than what was done to completely sabotage the item in question.
One thing we had here was utter chaos in all 3 of the food distribution programs we have here everh month. No clear cut plan for the peop-le to get their commodities, just like a bunch of crazed wild persons, all piling in over each other, and grabbing any and everything they can, even ut of other people's hands. So, with creativity in hand, I went to the pile of stuff I have pack ratted away for years, found an old race tent frame I built decades ago from round steel tubing, cut it all up, made upright poles, with T top sections, and got some ready set concrete. I then needed some sort of mold for the concrete to form the bases for the oolder tubes. A trip downtown to Dini's Casino Restaurant got me, over a few short weeks, every 3 and 4 pound vegetable and other tin can that they got food in, nicely set outside every day for me, free. When I had enough tins, I made 30 stand alone rope stantions. We now use those stantions and ropes, to giude the recipients through all 3 of the food programs, one at a tme, no more problems. I used them yesterday for the Senior Citizen's Food Bank distribution, and everybody was happy to have them in place, as the chaos was completely stopped. Just a simple solution, that didn't cost much, only for the concrete and ropes, that helped immensely, immediaely. We'll use a different configuration of the same stantions and ropes next Wednesday, for the second food program, in a 2nd local, and then, on the 25th, for the 3rd of the month, in the 3rd location.
My team of 7 lady volunteers I recruited to work the various food programs, ahem...now refered to as "Dave's Harem" (I didn't start calling them that name, THEY DID), will all be there as well. The key to making it all work is what I came up with to fix it all, and especially that I asked EVERYBODY for thier input, ideas, of volunteers, recipients, officials, and we all worked together to get it figured out. IT ALL WORKS, FANTASTICALLY, like your trailer hitch, even when you use that setup as 'The New Titanic', as John posted his picture of you steaming right along the waterways.
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