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The Y-Frame
This adaptable trailer can carry anything, anywhere. Simple, light and strong the Y-frame combines innovative design with sturdy construction to produce one of the most versatile bike trailers you can buy.
Facts:
Y-frame large: 20” wheels, 700x500mm load bed, 90kg capacity, 7.5kg weight
Y-frame small: 16” wheels, 580x380mm load bed, 45kg capacity, 6kg weight
The trailer
The simple aluminium frame, although very light is incredibly strong, while many luggage options can fix to the plywood load base. Add to this the benefits of easy storage (the wheels and handle ‘quick-release’ in seconds), and what you have is one of the most affordable, versatile trailers on the market today. The simple but efficient hitch allows fast and secure attachment to and release from your bike.
Choose a top
Use the trailer as standard with its tie down straps and load bed, or fit a bag or box to suit your purpose. 100’s of commercially available bags and boxes will bolt or strap onto the trailer, we have selected the following for their quality:
Uses
Commute with a change of clothes in the rack pack bag, carry your groceries with the fold flat box, tour the world with the lockable
aluminium box, or transport precious equipment with the Explorer case. The Y-frame lends itself to functions limited only by your
imagination. Whether carrying everyday loads or planning something unique, we can help.
Accessories
We can supply an adaptor allowing you make a 4 wheel trailer by linking two Y-frames one behind the other. Our hand cart adaptor allows you to walk the trailer with minimal effort. Extra hitches can be fitted to your other bikes them all enabling you to fit your trailer
to all.
Custom build
The basic Y-frame can be stretched widened or made fourwheeler to suit whatever task you need it for. Past customers have bought bicycle hearses, trailers for taxiing microlites, transporting yachts, and for moving house.
To discuss options contact us at:
email: custom@carryfreedom.com or
phone: 0845 456 0928
Construction
The finish is excellent; anodised 6064T6 aluminium welded to the highest quality standards by our ISO 9000 factory. Quality tyres run on lightweight 20 spoke wheels fitted with sealed cartridge bearings. These wheels are attached by sturdy button release 12mm wheelchair
stub axles.
Carry Freedom and USED
The Y-frame trailer is just one model in the all new Carryfreedom trailer range, developed by NickLobnitz in collaboration with BIKEBOX
of Canada. Carry Freedom is just that, we create innovative high quality solutions tailored for people living in the real world.
USED is CarryFreedom‘s distributor in Europe and it‘s philosophy is very clear: The only good product, is a product that is being USED. Everything else is a waste of resources, time and of course money. We want to sell products that people need. “If you don‘t need it, don‘t buy it.” That‘s the message.
Carry Freedom, our wonderful trailer line, has been climbing the Himalayas. Cass Gilbert from the English bike magazine Cycling Plus took a Y-Frame to the top of the world. Check out what kind of impression the world's most versatile trailer made on the children of the Indian Himalayas. Cass took the Y-Frame without the load base to save weight and went to a local blacksmith to get a load base made, the cost was just a couple of euros. Anyway the Y-Frame mastered the ordeal with distinction, and what's good for the Himalayas should be good enough for the rest of us....!
Four and a half years on the road from Germany through Russia and China to Birma with two Riese und Müller Delite-Bikes and two Carry Freedom Y-Frame trailer. Denis and Tanja Katzer are used to such travels. They even walked through Australia! This journey to Birma is part of a 30 years expedition which Denis and Tanja plan for their lifetime.
These two Y-Frames are loaded differently. Denis has a Zargesbox with a lot of technology: satellite telephone, notebook, camera, video equipment ect. These things get charged with a solar cell on the top of the box. Tanja rides her Y-Frame large with a Rack-Pack from Ortlieb and has solar cells on it too. You can read about their trip on the internet. Its getting updated once a week.
On this trip Denis and Tanjas want to overwinter in Sibiria, to dwell with the reindeers in Russia and to ride the elephants in Birma. This trip will take 4 to 5 years and the USED website will report once in a while. We wish them a safe return and a lot of fun with our products. These two guys have earned our respect!
After 75 days on their journey at the 7th of october they reached Belgrad. They left 2145 kilometers behind them and now they are on the way to Bukarest.
These boxes are perfect for the Y-Frame. It is easy to mount and you can transport almost everything.
Zargesbox details:
Eurobox details:
Find the Zarges boxes in our webshop: here
a journey of 30 years, project of a lifetime
A journey of 30 years - the longest expedition ever documented in human history - that's the aim of Denis and Katja Katzer. Using Carry Freedom Trailers they are currently on their trans-east-expedition from Germany to Burma. It's all here.....more