Bikes Across Borders 2010 Kitchen Trailer

You know you are a freak when there is a normal house's kitchen 5 feet away yet you still decide to prepare dinner for 34 hippies out in the cold, dark night on the kitchen trailer.
The guys in these pics truly are awesome individuals. The one on the left especially. (Roy Coon, http://www.winovino.com/bio/)

Implied: you are off-center if you are riding a bicycle to Monterrey Mexico with 34 people.

Stomping on the basic frame for fun, attempting to balance on it.

Super hardcore adventure. Cargo bike maxed out. You'll notice my back tire is flat, as a group of 34 people were getting a flat once a minute because the roads were littered with little pieces of invisible tire-poking wire. We suspect that the creepy government/mafia/drug-lord secret society was planting the pieces of wire in the road to slow us down for who knows what...

New sport idea: "dicycle", (or "die"-cycle). A bicycle type vehicle with two wheels parallel to each other in separate planes. (not co-linear like normal bike). balance on it like a skateboard and get really wicked at balance and learning how to fall, using abdominal muscles.

Skeleton Kitchen trailer in use. Snacks!

Safety orange.

Trailer's table top definitely worth its weight [in plywood?] no, in dinner. Picture taken in south Texas, San Miguel, very close to US/Mex border. Note the cut-off crutch legs that are being used as stabilizers for the portable kitchen cart so it could stand alone.

Also note the roller bar in the back (to the left, partially visible). For lack of appropriate materials, I made it out of a broken bicycle pump and a steel wheel hub complete with axle and bearings, etc... The pump's steel chamber served as the roller's main body. I cut the hub (including axle) in half and brazed the flanges to the ends of the chamber tube. They matched up pretty good and eye-balling it centered was good enough. The pieces of the axle got mounted to each side of the trailer, and the cones got locked in the appropriate spots once I managed to get it all set up. I'm not sure if it would be possible to easily service the bearings but it would be possible to uneasily service them.

It made it possible for people to come up behind the trailer (when it was being pulled down the road) and push the trailer with the front wheel of their bike. This wasn't the safest thing in the world, and you had to practice it and have good balance.
Witnesses can attest to its functionality and danger. Double edged sword.

Test ride in the beginning