Bike trailer topbox for luggage etc

**tomahawk** · 2021/01/21, 10:18 AM

I have a 2 bike trailer and I am keen to get a big topbox to fit on the load bed rather than buy a new venter trailer. My aim is to be able to pack it like a venter trailer when we go on holiday as the car is getting too full. Is there anybody out there that can make like a fibreglass bin or have a plastic bin that could screw onto the bottom. I have attached an image to show for the size with a bike on top for reference. I am not planning to get it right away but I think sometime this year and I just want to get some ideas and options and find out if it can be done and made up and approx cost. A new trailer is about R13k. i know second hand is much cheaper but I would prefer to have 1 trailer.

**Dirk** · 2021/01/21, 10:22 AM

This might work.

https://www.pioneerplastics.co.za/co...mki-bakkie-box

https://www.pioneerplastics.co.za/co...s/atv-tool-box

https://www.pioneerplastics.co.za/co...cking-tool-box

**ghouwens** · 2021/01/21, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by tomahawk

I have a 2 bike trailer and I am keen to get a big topbox to fit on the load bed rather than buy a new venter trailer. My aim is to be able to pack it like a venter trailer when we go on holiday as the car is getting too full. Is there anybody out there that can make like a fibreglass bin or have a plastic bin that could screw onto the bottom. I have attached an image to show for the size with a bike on top for reference. I am not planning to get it right away but I think sometime this year and I just want to get some ideas and options and find out if it can be done and made up and approx cost. A new trailer is about R13k. i know second hand is much cheaper but I would prefer to have 1 trailer.

I have seen a similar trailer here in PE. All the guy did was fit a solid bottom and sides. He then added the Securi-lid type lockable roll-top cover.

**Dirk** · 2021/01/21, 10:26 AM

I think I misread.

**Dirk** · 2021/01/21, 10:27 AM

Roll top for that size is going to put you back probably R15-20k. It will be a elegant solution though.

**spicydave** · 2021/01/21, 10:31 AM

Why not build a frame with Aluminium and connect-it fittings and cover with checkered plate

**ekkekan** · 2021/01/21, 11:18 AM

What about the extension boxes that fit on a venter trailer?
You get them in 1.5, 1.8, 2.1m long.

**Stranger** · 2021/01/21, 12:26 PM

We did this, worked really well. Had a bag made out of heavy duty tarpaulin to the size of the trailer. At the time I paid about a grand for it. Tall enough for two ammo boxes and it sucked up all the mattresses tents, chairs tables, food, everything.

**Rapapanga** · 2021/01/21, 12:30 PM

I investigated the same thing about a year ago and ended up buying a 2nd hand luggage trailer.

I could not get the cost lower than buying a 2nd hand luggage trailer for what I wanted on my bike trailer

**Steady** · 2021/01/21, 12:38 PM

I had this dilemma. My solution was to buy large plastic boxes which I strapped to the trailer. Worked well. The boxes are strong, nothing like a "Plasticland, big jim made in China box".