Tiny Bicycle Houses
A tiny house mounted on or pulled behind a bicycle is extremely efficient in that no fossil fuels are needed to move it along. Another added benefit is that towing it is a good workout and lets you enjoy the great outdoors.
But what about long uphills? The perfect addition to your bicycle/tiny house setup would be to make your bicycle have an electric motor kick in when needed. Any bicycle can be converted to a pedal/electric hybrid with a kit such as this one. Or you can purchased a bicycled that’s already electric from the manufacture such as this one (men’s) and this one (women’s).
To inspire you, I’ve prepared a nice list of bicycle/camper setups that I believe you’ll enjoy.
The Camper Bike by Kevin Cyr. You can learn more about it here.
The Little Tag Along. See a full writeup with more photos here.
A fellow named Paul designed this little camper pulled behind his bicycle for housing while hanging out at Burning Man. You can learn more about his little camper here.
Apparently pulling a camper behind your bicycle isn’t an entirely new concept.
“The Caravan” is a luxury bicycle camper with an array of available options like solar roof panels, satellite dish, gaming console, central heating and external luggage rack. Learn more about The Caravan here.
The “Fiets caravan” is designed to be very lightweight and two of them can be placed side by side to make a double bed.
The “Supertramp” is a pull behind bicycle caravan made mostly of fabric. I think it’s great that it even comes with a wood stove! Free heat on the go. You can learn more about the Supertramp here. Photo credits Lehman B.
“The Karavaanari”. Photo credit Tero Tilus.
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It really is! What a neat, cheap way to travel (for a short time though!)
ReplyDeleteNot quite as desperate . . . . yet. Here is an other one.
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Thanks for the link - I guess when you are young and adventurous you have all that energy to expend! Would have to keep to warmer climates & land that is flat. I've seen motorcycles pulling little pop-up trailers. Thanks for stopping by and commenting, and please visit often!
DeleteVery very cool.
ReplyDeleteWonder if you might need trailer plates on it - and tail lights!
ReplyDeleteMaybe a bit to small for me. I'll go for something a bit bigger, but still smallish.
ReplyDeleteThe gypsy caravans are a lot roomier cw, but then I would need a horse to pull it. Hey, not a bad idea!
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