Skateboard Bike Rack Hack

Last week I think I witnessed a first on bike hacks - the incorporation of a skateboard for cargo/passenger transport. The electric assist bike we featured had a skateboard fastened to the rear of the bike, meant for someone to sit on.  I am not sure how comfortable that might be without padding, but it still was a pretty ingenious idea.  As a kid I both pulled and was pulled by a bike while riding a skateboard with a rope - an entirely different and often unsafe mode of cargo transport that resulted in a few scars I carry with me to this day. 

I bumped into a second instance of a skateboard rack while trawling the blog of a reader, Old Fool.  The gentleman in charge has been cobbling together a cargo bike and it looks like a pretty formidable cargo transport machine.  The full write up is here and all pictures below are credited to Old Fool.

On the rear it is easy to spot the repurposing of a skateboard.

From the looks of it, a few animals must be quite grateful for this extreme sport bike hack.  Have you merged two forms of transport?  Let us know.

 

Comments

[Garth]

Oh, god, skitching off a bike. Never the most painful crashes, but they're all up there in the most humiliating.

When I first saw an Xtracycle I thought it was just a tandem with a skateboard jimmied on top. I know better now, but I can imagine the designers being inspired by hacks such as Old Fool's. It looks super solid.

[Oldfool]

Thanks Matt, The bike is still in use but not so much this winter. I find I am not tolerating the cold and wind so much these days, age I guess. The Puppy chewed the back corner out of the starboard saddlebag but that don't hurt nuthin'.
My grandson skateboards so it is a source of material.

[The Disabled Cyslist]

Nice recycling of a board :D

The DC

[sinful bikini]

I usually like wind.
This idiom refers to something that floats lightly in the wind like the smell of freshly baked bread.
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[Beth]

haha, this is a nice idea, you have a good imagination