Micro-Airstream

Are you going to insulate and finish off the inside walls? Wonderful workmanship.

ChucksKLRST said:

Are you going to insulate and finish off the inside walls?

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It needs that green protective coating first... ;-)

With easy access to the nice superthin plywood, I would think you would want to finish in the classic airstream wood interior.
Get some 3mm baltic birch.

It is a good looking trailer... er... work of art.

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Tom

Look good!:bow1:

Do you work on aircraft? This looks like a airplane construction to me.

Today I hooked it to my bike and made a one hour test ride over narrow mountain streets, high speed autobahn with strong winds and passing trucks.

The trailer follows very fine, I reduced trailer tire pressure a bit to reduce the clonks when I pass a bridge.

Tested up to 130 km/h and felt only a small swinging when reducing speed from 130 !
Perfect between 80 and 100 km/h.

Trailer weight is now 128 kg (282 lb) and five more kg adding the spare wheel.









Back at home I separated the sleeping box from the base camp to install the final connections between both parts in the evening.

Weight of the cabin is exact 50 kg (110 lb) !





And no, I do not work on aircraft - sit all the day on my butt and work as system administrator - a typical nerd

Tom

PanEuropean said:

And no, I do not work on aircraft - sit all the day on my butt and work as system administrator - a typical nerd

Tom

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Mellow,,,you qualify! When are you going to build one too?

:bow1::bow1::bow1: Tom, that is absolutely beautiful. I will not hound you to finish the inside,,why add the weight? My 2cents worth.

Looks like you have a bunch of bare space for stickers! Judging by the looks of your top case you collect lots of them.

That's beautiful work. I'm pretty sure you could give up your desk job and start a manufacturing company.
Mike

It's great to see it hooked to the bike and out on the road. Great project! Awesome job! I hope you enjoy it now that all the hard work is done.

With the trailer hooked to the bike, have you gotten inside toward the rear to see if it will lift the bike off the rear wheel? That could be a really bad things.

That is just totally awesome! Congrats on a job well done!

Absolutely astounding workmanship!

I think the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th picture in this series would be great calendar shots...

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Tom

Very, very well done!

PanEuropean said:

Finished





Tom

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Really nice work!! I've been following this and never realized how small it is. So cool...

very nice trailer.
if you need to do some wind testing.
use dabs of grease. old school technology.
ouch at the thought of putting grease on that beautifully done trailer.

Tomorrow morning heading to Gibraltar !

8000 km test ride

Tom