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You ride a bike.

But you want to bring stuff.

So you could sling a bag over your shoulder for the light loads. Or for a two day Polaris or weekend away you could stuff all you need to live for two days into a rucksack. But you'll only tell yourself at the end of two days that there must be a better way. (Speaking from bitter experience here).

Or say you want to carry more than you can fit into a rucksack.

So you try panniers. Which are fine in their way. Which are fine so long as you can remember which pannier you put anything in, and nothing is too awkward to fit. Like a tent. (Can you tell that we've experienced this too?)

There has got to be a better way. Well there is. Consider the following:

Would you like the convenience of loading or unloading your bike in under 30 seconds?

Would you like to be able to go on a picnic on your bike? Taking a cool box full of beer and a proper barbecue?

Would you as a keen green cyclist like to use your bike instead of your car for carrying anything too large for panniers/rucksacks?

Would you like a single solution that can satisfy all of the above?

There's a peculiarly British thing which in the summer months sees sporty little two seater cars towing large trailers in an attempt to be practical. Well you can do the same.

Sling a trailer on your bike and your laughing.

There are a large variety of trailers out there but right now we're going to state our loyalties to a single brand. What you really need is a BOB trailer. Yes we know it's a shameless plug but having experienced other trailers which didn't mount so well and toppled over we're not going to endorse anything else.

BOB trailers attach to you bike via bobbins on the end of your rear skewer. So installing a BOB trailer consists of merely changing your skewer. How simple is that? Fitting the BOB itself is then a matter of hooking the BOB trailer fork onto the skewer and fitting a couple of 'grenade pins' to stop it lifting off. It's the fastest and most convenient method we've ever seen of hooking a trailer onto a bike.

This fork is the really clever bit. It allows the BOB trailer to articulate vertically over bumps, and horizontally as you go round corners. But it doesn't allow twist, so even with a single wheel the trailer can't topple over unless the bike does.

BOBs have another advantage over other trailers. They weights the rear wheel of the bike which actually helps braking. That's neat. You're carrying extra weight so you need extra brakes. And that's just what you get.

They work on hardtails or softails, tandems or solos, with gears or without.