My $3 Seat Post Bike Trailer Hitch 

i am building a bike camper and i had no clue what i was going to do for a hitch but now i have the perfect thing, Thanks!

Thank you! I really needed to fabricate a simple bike trailer hitch ... my garden plot is about two miles away from my house and now I can zip over there without the use of a car!! Thanks again!

That is awesome , thank you so much you just saved me a headache I was trying to figure out how to make a cart seat post from a bicycle, I came across your video👏👏

You, sir, are a freaking genius!

Brilliant. Thanks for the info. I want to build a bike trailer for my mobile bike repair business. This helped a ton. I’m going to watch the other video now. Thank you

Thanks a bunch I'm putting together a trailer and wasn't sure how I would connect it. This is a perfect solution.

wow clever idea! just what I needed, thank you sir!

Great idea you have totally solved my problem with a cheap functional option cheers

perfect example for youtube viewers like me. Thank you :)

I love it.. I will absolutely be playing with this concept soon. You should look into Paul Elkins.

Thank you! And very much enjoy your teaching style

Hey, thanks for the video! I'm missing what the end of the trailer looks like that connects to the thimble with the pin in it. I there a U bolt or something similar at the end of the wood rod? Any chance you could take some close up pictures?

What a great idea! My husband will love this! Thank you for sharing!

Thankyou

Thank you.

A great design. Perfection there. PARTS Question: Where did you call the sleeves? PVC sleeves?

This is great! But I need thatt set up, clamp, saws, drills, etc. I have a drill though!

Great video, thank you. Maybe you could, however, show us how you attach the arm of the trailer to the hitch that you just made.

Nice shop! I'm going to a seat neck hitch design and will use 2 hose clamps on a large oblong chain link. The trailer pin will go through a second link on the Two link chain. MarkMannM2

Great idea mate and thanks for sharing. How does it hold up when stopping abruptly?

You did make me giggle when you said you were using your daughters bike as she wasn't there .... ;D))) I wonder if she knows you take her things apart as soon as she turns her back ;D thank you sir for the tips , I am trying to be more handy with making things from what I have already and recycled materials , it's fun trying to figure it out : )

i am in the process of building a hitch to hook to the Rear Bike Rack, i will be using a Golf bag Cart as a Trailer, the kind with Air Tires.

Brilliant / thanks dude

The long piece that goes to the seat post is made out of wood!

Nice! Thx!

Ok, you showed the seat post kit, but you didn't show the actual mounting on the trailer tongue in the video. Can you explain how that mount to the trailer tongue is supposed to be done. please. I am wondering why just a 1/2" horseshoe was chosen and not a larger one? This is very simplistic in design and that is great, but I wonder how well it holds up over time with the big trailer cart you have in the video. Your tow bar to the actual trailer is a straight piece. Lots of bike trailers use a rounded tow bar that curves up over the rear tire or even a hitch anchored to the bike rear axle. I am in the process of trying to construct a barrel trailer which will be done up like the ones you see pulled by a lawn tractor as cars. It is a total DIY project and every time I view a different video, I seem to get more and more ideas for doing it up. This one may be great, but one issue I can see is that with a suspension seat as my bike has, it would put the seat up higher to add a hitch setup on that post. Ultimately, it defeats the purpose of the suspension seat, as it won't allow the seat to drop down enough. I need a lower seat than what came on my bike, as it sits too high already. My seat also flips up so I can remove my battery from my electric bike. A seat post setup as yours would mean I could not use the seat in the same manner in removal of the battery, as the hitch would then be in the way. No real issue on your bike, but it may be on my own. Can you address this reply with your own thoughts, please? Nice modification and nice video explaining it. I'll have to give it a try and see how it works out. My barrel train car will be done up as an airplane and house my dogs as I ride about my neighborhood. I drove a motorcycle sidecar rig for years and riding with my dogs was a great pleasure, so this bike trailer is something I really want to make for them and me to enjoy. Thanks for the video.

Did i miss what the connection was? What is it connected to?

I like that design can you lay the bike down without the trailer being on its side I'd like to have a good Pivot Point at seatpost 4 up down left right

Awesome mate, cheers for sharing!

Great

the center gravity of the trailer is too high. it will rock to the point flip over. Very danger. Need mount it as low as possible. ----- however, I was wondering if you ha e a diy way tp make seat post from conduit?

Das ist wunderbar.

you must be riding super slow. I made a similar connection 5 years ago like yours from parts directly from the hardware store, but I found a trailer without low center gravity like Burly Bike Trailer, Trailer is not stable, Connector needs to be as low as possible.

What is the pin called that goes into the thimble? I really appreciate this video and your great attitude :-)

I'd be scared a car broadside that thing and it swing around and take my leg off. Looks a bit dangerous.

What are you using on the tongue of the trailer to hook it up to the seat hitch?

You don’t show the pin. And you don’t show how you attach the piece of wood to your device on the seat post… great ideas are only as good as the details that you can share… Respectfully, you’ve left out to the most important parts!!!!!

What was the 3/16 bar stock for?

zipties are cheaper and faster.

Need to show the connection

You missed out the most important bit. How do you connect the trailer to the hitch. If you have to connect it to the pin well that`s not very safe especially if you have your dog in the trailer. We need to see it CLOSE UP while your manouvering the hitch not 10 yards away. So you connected your hitch to the saddle stem and put your pin in to secure it and said "that`s it set to go" OK but what comes next is to know where you connect the trailer to. The only place I see is the circular part of the pin. Come on Backwood show us properly and finish your demo off by connecting the trailer to which part of the hitch CLOSE UP. Why pay more you ask, well to be sure the trailer does rip the pin out of the hitch.

how does it hook to the trailer's tongue ?