Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

I think you did, was getting some bar tape for the road bike.

both my partner and I are students and we move house quite often (rent a house/flat from september-june then a bedsit from june-september, changing houses every year). The stuff we have to move isn't particularly large (mostly boxes of books, clothes and kitchen stuff) but it is quite heavy. Taxis and men-with-ven are just as expensive as hiring a van for a couple of hours. Also it'd be useful for shopping and picking stuff up from out-of-town depots - about once a month I have to take a taxi to a depot/workshop/powdercoater in a countryside business park and it's usually a £20 round trip (so if I spend even £50 on making a good trailer it'll save money within three months).

This is what friends and trailer are for.

A forum member was moving flat, admittedly a very short distance from her pervious flat, she borrowed a Surly Big Dummy from work, and I brought my makeshift trailer, she have a lots of stuff, but it only take a couple hours to move it all.

Recently the missus have to packed everything and put them in storage in Wimbledon from Clerkenwell (11 miles), she have a lots of stuff and I mean a lots, so as a solution, I've been using my trailer to carry 100kg worth of stuff to Wimbledon on a regular basis, sometime twice in one day, it was exhausting, but the key point is this; free.

The fact that it's free is worth doing, even if I have to go back and forth 10 time to empty her flat (and that included carrying her desk, wardrobe etc.).

That makeshift trailer is the forum's own (me and clefty donated it), so anyone who need a trailer will able to borrow that trailer, and pass it along etc.