For plans visit:http://electricbicycletrailer.com/

No reason what so ever as it turns out. I just ordered the plans for the above Bicycle Cargo Push Trailer. (Yes that mean’s I’m planing to build one.) The links have video so I didn’t waste your time putting one here. I’ve been really psyched about buying or building a powered push trailer ever since I saw my first one a few years ago. Since then I have come across quite a few websites for powered push trailers and plans for building them. I’ve seen YouTube videos and PDF schematics for everything from professional looking blue prints to plans for modifying a Garden Way Cart. (Hey, I got one of those) The one I choose appears to be professionally built, well-engineered and complete. “Complete” being the operative word here. Actually the Bicycle Cargo Push Trailer is the only one I can say that about. It’s designed to be powered by an off-the-shelf hub-motor drive system so outside of the steel, hardware and misc. fasteners everything else can be readily purchased from a **** local bike shop or on-line. Now I know from first hand experience that what ever price I initially put into my labor cost for a project I should just go ahead and double it. So I did and with that in mind I hope to build a finished product that looks and performs as well as Dave’s Trailer does & still sell it at a profit. I’m at least a year away from building this thing let alone selling it but I’ll do my best to keep you posted.

In the mean time if your interested in electric trailers I have included a resource list for websites that I found exceptionally useful. The Electric Push Trailer Plans I purchased are available at http://electricbicycletrailer.com/. unfortunately I could only find three sources for a “complete”, pre-built and ready-to-go powered push trailer. I included those in my resource list. When I first decided to post this article I had hoped to include a more comprehensive list, but the bottom line is there’s just not a lot out there. As I mentioned earlier, there are a lot of links to explore but if you’re looking for a finished product you probably won’t find much more than I did. Whatever you do find however please leave us a comment or send us an email. I’ll continue to update this list as I find new sources.

As a final note there is a third and possibly the better way to get a powered trailer for your bike. Modify one! There is a ton of good bike trailers on the market today. New & used. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination or an engineering degree to envision retro-fitting one of these with a hub-motor drive system. With today’s newer lighter weight geared hub motors & LiFePo4 batteries these trailers could still maintain much of their capacity & portability. I regularly review bike trailers on this website and for everyone I review there is ten more I havent. Some of these are better suited for modification than others. I personally would suggest buying a used one if at all possible. You can pick them up for 50% to 90% off the new price. I’ve even picked one up for free last year.

Well anyway now you have something else to think about. Here’s my list starting with the “complete” e-powered bike trailers.

Resource List

E-powered bike trailers:

• Ridekick @ http://www.ridekick.com/
• Lightfoot Cycles @ http://www.lightfootcycles.com/powerpusher.php
• Moto Bob by Electric Cyclery @ http://www.greenspeed.us/electric_moto-bob.htm

Batteries and controllers:

• http://www.pingbattery.com/
• http://www.batteryspace.com/

E-bike components:

• http://www.bicycle-power.com/diykits.html
• http://www.goldenmotor.com/
• http://www.ebikes.ca/
• http://www.electric-bikes.com/
• http://www.crystalyte.com/