Modern Vespa

I am an avid mnt. biker and hate having to take my car whenever I want to ride. I do it just because it is easy to slap the bike up on top, but I've been trying to find a way to use my scooter to transport my bike, and could never think of a way to transport it. I did not want to carry it sideways across the back, because I feel it it sketchy.

But I think I might have solved the problem today, while I was riding at a nearby park I saw one of these bike trailers...
http://images.chron.com/blogs/momhouston/bike%20trailer%202.jpg


And I thought maybe by taking the front wheel off my bike and attaching it to a fork receiver mounted on the rear rack with U-bolts, I could drag it behind me like that little bike.

This is the fork receiver...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41egFo0gnsL._SL500_AA280_.jpg


I don't know if it will work, and I will have to buy a rear rack first, but... what do you think?

Are there any others who have had the same bike woes?

you could try to use this system:

http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=trailgatorattached.jpg

this way you don't have to remove the front wheel

Would the bike be able to handle the stress of traveling the same speed as the scooter for long periods of time? And would the trailer keep it stable enough? Would dragging something behind your scooter make it unstable as well? These would all be concerns of mine. However, if you can make it work, it would be pretty cool!

I have seen people with surfboard carriers on the side of their scooters. I wonder if you could rig one of those up to hold a bicycle.

This thread shows a bicycle mounted on a Vespa, might be helpful to take a look at:
I got broad sided this morning

Updated to include a photo


Regards
Harvey

OK, first things first, your cycle's tires aren't rated to go 50 mph like your scoot's tires. Secondly, whats to stop your bike from bouncing all over the place if you hit a bump or pothole? Unless you plan on riding at 25 mph the whole way, I don't see this as a viable option.

Here's a link to something you might find interesting though:
http://forums.stellaspeed.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4084&hilit=bicycle+rack

Edit: You have to be registered to view that link, but here are a few pics to wet your appetite until you decide to register to learn how to do this:

That is pretty much what I was picturing happening. I think it would bounce all over the place. Which would in turn make the scooter really unstable and probably destroy the hitch mechanism pretty quickly as well. Bicycles are incredibly light with no rider. I can throw mine over shoulder and carry it easily and it's a big old beach cruiser.

You might be able to rig something up to attach your bike to your scooter.

But I'm wondering with this free-wheeling method if sustained rolling behind your scooter at 50-60MPH speeds might not do damage to the rear bicycle wheel? Also it didn't look to me like that trailer had any built-in leaning adjustment capacity, so what happens when you're leaning your scoot into a turn?
If that bicycle tire blows while your trailering it you'd then be dragging the bicycle on it's rear rim, which could maybe destroy the bicycle's wheel and chain and might even put enough drag on the scooter to cause it to mishandle, and possibly go down?

I though I saw somewhere on MV where someone had mounted a bicycle up onto the back of his scooter. Have you tried a search here yet?

Another:



This one is the best though i think:
http://forums.stellaspeed.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4111&hilit=bicycle+rack

After some searching I found a picture of something similar to what I was thinking about... Although it looks like he has an extension so it is more like a suspended trailer than attached directly to the rack.

I didn't really think about this, I wouldn't want it to pop up and hit me in the back, thats for sure. I really like this!

Just don't turn right.

Don't mount a bike in this manner. It is unsafe to mount loads very far beyond your rear axle, and although a bike is "light" that design couldn't be a worse way of distributing the load... you see they have taken the "light" bicycle and given it a TON of leverage on the the rear axle... if you were going to do this you should also mount one in the same manner off the front to keep the front wheel safely planted

Remember that your front wheel provides the majority of your braking power and is responsible for your steering... you want the puppy planted

I don't like the the ones where the bike sits up high hanging over the rear of the bike the weight that far back looks like it must be unsafe. Weight to high up and far back.

I like the idea of putting the fork mount onto a rear rack and then tie the front wheel to your mounting bike so you are towing you bike. When you're riding your mounting bike the scoot is left looking like a scooter so little fuss to put on and off.
I have a mounting bike that I tow one of my sons on one of them 'bike trailers that don't have a front wheel'. It does not bounce around, but I have my son on it. The only time it seems unstable is when he starts peddling like mad and he wobbles from side to side. We've never gone down and we've been full speed down a hill, and off roading loads of times on it.
It's only going to cost you the cost of the mount and a spare rear rack if you want to keep the original.
As for bike tyre loads, check with a good bike shop but I'm sure you could get a bike tyre that would be safe up to 40mph, which I think would be quick enough. You have to remember how much longer your combo is when going round a bend.
Or you could put the rear bike wheel on a wheel trolly dolly type thing so that the bike wheel is of the road.

Good luck with which ever way you go... Photos please if you get a system that you go with....

awsome!!! i have't seen those until now.

I actually was able to mount my Saris Bones bike rack on my GT 250 and it worked but wasn't as functional as the Thule tray thing.