SOLD ¡Rad! Child's tagalong, 700c compact custom rack Dave Yates, fillet + bilaminate, ages 5-11

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For Sale Dave Yates / M Steel child's trailer-bike. Steel is real right? M Steel even more so. You know it makes sense. Why entrust your child's early experiences of pedalling onto a lesser made-of-cheese floppy BSO tagalong?

This bike is nicely painted, it's tatty now but I never wanted to change its awesome colourscheme. High viz bikes rule. Bought on the Bay a good while back, replaced wheel at some point. Now is a well-running DeepV (I think) on one of those generic high flange sealed SS/track hubs. Fixed/single, will leave cogs on if you require. Tyre is not included, just showing spacing - 700x28 Pasela folder in there.

Child's size steel cranks, perhaps 5" or so, have had no gyp with BB since I packed them quite a while back, but would benefit from a fresh set of bearings. Cotters have been rock solid.

Rack attaches to fairly old-school geo frames well, would need some clever work (some good chunky steel attaching shizzle) to get it fitting well to a really compact geo frame, but I doubt it would be impossible on many bikes. It looks like it was made to attach to rack eyes at the seat cluster, however I did P-clip it up top on a bike without rack eyes and it was fine. The bottom stays go onto your axle, so supporting that a proper burly rear hub recommended - I preferred a nutted hub.

Fixed handlebar sliding vertical stem thing allows for growth of nipper's reach. A fine bit of framebuilding that, despite the paint suffering under it.

Steering column attached over a sort of collared joint with massive steel push pin, with a very snug reassuring fit and locking bolt. Easy to separate just carrying a single allen. Trailer handles extremely well at a pace and moderate speed.

Collection SE4 preferred. Can negotiate transport given some time to sort it. A12 corridor, M1 corridor, M4 corridor all pretty easy for me in near future.

This thing was So Much Fun for us. Controls well as long as you're well over your bars/steerer. Town and suburbs trips felt easy and safe. Toured a tiny bit on it (full bags etc), used the rack as my rear pannier support as well, without issue. You could do a lot more.

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Ghost rider....

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This is amazing; just wish I had a child (baby on the way but this is probably a bit early!)

Glws, hope someone buys this and has loads of amazing family cycle times

Thanks blud!

That’s fully feckin amazing. Would be a perfect partner for my ‘95 M Steel tourer if I had the wherewithal or grandchildren :)

I've been holding onto it for aaages thinking I was going to build some weird rack things to turn it into a trailer. Meh.

So much rad

My kid LOVED it whilst it fitted.

That. Is. Amazing.

I love this thing. I think Loic should attach it to the Varonha...

Wow, that really tickles my fancy! Question is do I have the space to store it for the next 4 years until the youngest fits it?!?

I would be so happy if it went to you or another of the foruminati vintage brigade.

Just been reminded by better half that my lad rode this from age 4.

tfw someone's 4 year old kid rides a nicer bike than I have in my 25 miserable years on this earth

Lad’s three years off but sooo tempted. Proper job that

So incredibly rad. If I had the money etc.

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Always loved that. Someone buy it.

Ubgh......

That looks like it can be converted to a normal bike too right? New forks, unclamp top tube bars.?

I see what you mean. Headtube is rather close to vertical, top tube is very long. So a short-legged long armed very skilled rad-kunst rider may be able to do something with that.

But no.

It's a really good tagalong. You can find decent bikes easily, you can't find these easily.

I'm trying to justify the purchase,when I don't have space, and thinking of alternative selling points.

I have no idea where I'd put this or how much use it would get.

It is very rad though.

You have two kids. One can tow the other along, you can stay in bed with a cuppa.

Booom.