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Off on vacation - with the bike caravan!

As we all know, everything is a little different in the Corona summer of 2020. Cycling is all the rage, and so are vacations in Switzerland. Why not combine sporty transportation with comfort that goes beyond that of camping? The bike caravan offers just that. The most sophisticated of the bike caravans are light enough to be towed without an electric motor, provided the path does not climb.

Every now and then, a DIY enthusiast tries their hand at a caravan that can be pulled by bike. Some look like an attempt, others are extremely clever space or at least weight wonders. In contrast to the B-Turtle already presented here, these caravans are not tents on wheels, but solid, single-axle sleeping boxes, some high enough for you to sit in. Worth mentioning are the mobile dwellings of American Paul Elkins. He claims that his first book is suitable for the post-apocalypse. At least he has survived two editions of the Burning Man festival with it. For a further development of it, he sells the blueprint for 150 dollars. A few are available on the market, such as the rather elegant Danish Wide Path Camper or the Swiss Campolino. You can rent a real gem of a bike caravan in the Netherlands. A particularly motivated bio-caravanist pedaled it over the 2100-metre-high Jaufen Pass. This blog post and the YouTube video above show other examples of the bicycle caravan genre (and some already mentioned).


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