{"id":7,"date":"2003-08-06T12:37:43","date_gmt":"2003-08-06T17:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bikeforest.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2008-03-02T15:36:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T20:36:49","slug":"canoe-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Canoe Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple of days have been a little stressful.\u00a0 I built my canoe trailer in Ontario without having seen either the canoe or the tandem bike we planned to hitch the trailer to.\u00a0 I&#8217;d designed a custom BOB trailer style hitch to hook onto a standard BOB quick release skewer.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t realize until I arrived in Calgary that our tandem had an internal hub.\u00a0 BOB makes special nuts for use with internal hubs, but we couldn&#8217;t source any in Calgary.\u00a0 In the end, we resorted to mounting a stem on the stoker&#8217;s seatpost and sliding our BOB quickrelease through a cut down handlebar.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not\u00a0elegant, but it seems to work.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/canoe\/canoe_tow_modification.jpg\" alt=\"Modified canoe trailer hitch\" title=\"Modified canoe trailer hitch\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We took the trailer out for a test ride up and down a local section of the Bow River and all systems are a go.\u00a0 We should be good to leave tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/canoe\/canoe_test_trip.jpg\" alt=\"Canoe trailer test run\" title=\"Canoe trailer test run\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple of days have been a little stressful.\u00a0 I built my canoe trailer in Ontario without having seen either the canoe or the tandem bike we planned to hitch the trailer to.\u00a0 I&#8217;d designed a custom BOB trailer style hitch to hook onto a standard BOB quick release skewer.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t realize until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}