Biking Bison

An xtracycle is a really cool design for biking that extends the frame length of your bike, so that your cargo capacity greatly increases, while the mobility and agility of the bike remains pretty consistent. www.xtracycle.com I have been wanting one of these for quite some time, but the high price tag is pretty steep when I already have 5-6 bikes in the garage. After searching around some internet forums, I discovered a growing population of DIYers who are creating their own versions of this bike design. Here is my attempt at documenting my steps in creating my own.

Making an Xtracycle fit on a standard bike rack is nearly impossible. Look at the length of this thing. A putting it on a roof rack? Forget about it!

Today I will be modifying an older DIY bike rack I made to mount on the receiver hitch.

notice the grooves built into the watertight toolboxes I found. Its like they were meant to be a wheel tray.

My 1st attempt at a mounting location is off. The front sprocket is interfered by the toolbox

This was the first mounting location for the fork mount

While the sprockets sits on the top of the tool box, the forks cannot reach far enough down to the fork mount.

here is the final location for the mount. I wish It could be on the side rather than the cover of the box for improved stability, but the sprocket height over the box wouldn't allow for it.

Even now, there is barely enough clearance.