Simply two years in the past, Veolo unveiled a light-weight two-wheeled trailer designed to make each bicycle owner from bikepackers to cargo bike fanatics, rethink if… perhaps a trailer was a greater resolution to hauling extra gear. Now, they’re again with the Veolo Bike Trailer 2.0 – a lighter, lower-profile, faster-rolling, extra secure, and easier-to-use model that builds on every thing that made their first independent-suspension trailer a pleasant resolution for carrying extra by bike. Plus, Veolo now presents extra add-on choices tailor-made to bringing your canine on adventures, hauling a ship or board to the lake, or simply safer methods to hold per week’s procuring or a weekend’s journey gear…
Veolo 2.0 light-weight, suspended efficiency bike trailer
Why load your bike down with top-heavy luggage? Or why would it is advisable to purchase a devoted bike simply to haul 4 luggage of groceries residence from the shop, or to hold one thing even larger? As a substitute, why not maintain your high-performance bike gentle for more often than not. Then, simply hook up a light-weight and fast-rolling trailer for these bike journeys that basically do must haul much more gear.
That’s the idea behind the unique Veolo bike trailer, and it’s nonetheless the core precept behind model 2.0. Solely this time, the brand new trailer does every thing higher, lighter, and is less complicated to stay with everyday.
What’s new?
Lighter weight, narrower type issue, higher weight distribution
Greater than 20% weight discount is fairly strong start line. The unique Veolo trailer was already fairly light-weight at 8.5kg. However now this one is so gentle, if it was a motorbike, the UCI wouldn’t allow you to race it!
Now, simply 6.7kg.
Veolo calls the two.0 the “lightest sprung multi-function trailer” and positively the “lightest sprung canine trailer“, too!
Plus, the brand new trailer is a ~8.5cm narrower total and some centimeters longer form (Veolo calls the body 10cm narrower & 10cm longer), that additionally occurs to sit down your load 2cm decrease. Meaning there’s a bit decrease frontal space to drag by way of the wind. However most likely extra importantly, it provides the Veolo 2.0 trailer a decrease heart of gravity for extra stability over irregular terrain and improved cornering dealing with.
Its narrower design has additionally been optimized to sit down extra centrally in-line behind fashionable 142mm spaced thru-axles bikes.
Extra refined load basket, tires & mounting hitch system
Wanting extra intently, it’s additionally good to see the transfer to a bolstered cloth platform for the primary basket of the trailer vs. the bent aluminum sheet of the unique. The change not solely reduces weight, however signifies that the trailer will compress flat when not in use, taking on much less cupboard space. Simply the peak/thickness of the body, actually.
The brand new cloth basket, with new carbon-composite stiffener crossbars, additionally consists of new magnetic anchor factors that make it straightforward to rapidly clip on the included load straps. However additionally they function attachment factors for a number of of Veolo’s Add-On equipment to tailor your trailer for ‘on a regular basis, water sports activities, canine, and tenting’ actions.
There’s additionally a shift to extra burly & versatile 2″ Kenda Small Block Eight tires. In comparison with the primary technology’s lower-volume 44mm Massive Apples, this could imply much less bouncing round on something past completely easy roads, and it means the trailer can run decrease pressures for a smoother trip for no matter you’re hauling.
The Veolo 2.0 trailer nonetheless makes use of the widespread Chariot/Thule rubber ball hitch commonplace, which is handy. However Veolo created an all-new a lot lighter-weight hitch with a wise, one-handed quick-attach & launch design and an built-in locking mechanism. Saving greater than 100g off the hitch alone is a reasonably large deal, since that can keep on individuals’s bikes successfully completely when you bolt it onto a hitch-ready thru-axle. And the usual forged Thule hitch simply feels unnecessarily heavy!
Tech particulars
light-weight 6061 aluminum-frame bicycle trailer
sturdy & now collapsible cloth load basket, with mesh backside & carbon composite lateral basket stiffeners
40-49cm x 92cm load basket space
twin 20″ wheels with inward-leaning detrimental camber for added cornering stability
45mm of impartial elastomer-damped suspension, with 3 elastomer stiffnesses out there
new Veolo-designed light-weight quick-release ball hitch connector
suitable with bikes with 20-29″ rear wheels
new magnetic Add-On system permits for fast & straightforward tool-free set up and elimination of accent kits
new built-in kickstand of the standard-length & Twin-Mode towbars for secure loading/unloading away from the bike
new driveside deflector to maintain something from going into the rear wheel reverse the tow bar
6.7kg whole trailer weight
max 60kg load hauling capability
made by hand in Leipzig, Germany
Non-compulsory Veolo accent kits
Canine Add-On makes lightest sprung canine trailer at 10.7kg. The washable textile & mesh enclosure is examined secure for canines as much as 45kg. It includes a comfortable washable padded mattress inside, and a separate exterior compartment to your pup’s snacks, water & additional toys.
Touring Bag Add-On is a big 180L detachable duffle bag. The big bag includes a detachable padded liner, adjustable inner dividers, small exterior pockets, and is secured magnetically to the trailer body in seconds.
Cargo Field Add-On is a good larger 220L rectangular comfortable field with an aluminum body. The waterproof Field is constructed to be gentle however sturdy field to haul all forms of groceries and different gear, and consists of with a lockable comfortable lid secured with any versatile lock.
Water Sports activities Add-Ons can be found in two variations. The straightforward double-decker Load Bars help medium-sized masses as much as ~2m lengthy, whereas nonetheless protecting the primary basket out there for smaller gear. Or the Lengthy Load package combines the load bracket mounts with an prolonged Lengthy Drawbar to hold boats, boards and different gadgets as much as 3.5m lengthy.
Twin-Mode drawbar replaces the traditional tow bar with and a extra adjustable possibility. It’s designed to rotate its combo trailer hitch and hand grip so you possibly can extra simply pull the trailer round by hand after the trip, and can also be the best resolution for pulling behind smaller-wheeled 20-24″ bikes because of its choice to be adjusted shorter.
Veolo Trailer 2.0 – Pricing choices & pre-order availability
The brand new Veolo Trailer 2.0 is being crowdfunded in a Kickstarter marketing campaign now, similar to the first-gen was again in late 2023. That’s as a result of Veolo who already makes and sells the profitable 1.0 trailer, merely wants to fulfill a minimal amount threshold earlier than they will afford to replace all their tooling to the brand new technology. Within the first few days of the crowdfunding, they’ve already pulled in additional than 1/3 of the orders they want to enter manufacturing, and can be working the Kickstarter by way of July third.
Marketing campaign pre-order pledges begin at about 660€ (~640 / 550€, earlier than VAT) for Early Chicken backers, plus transport including 18-80€ extra. Apparently, that’s as low cost as the unique from a pair years in the past, and the entry value remains to be fairly a bit lower than the Cargo 1.0 model that Veolo has discounted on their web site at this time. Add-on equipment tack on anyplace from 89-269€ earlier than tax, so ultimate prices can be increased if you’re in search of a specialised setup.
Since it is a crowdfunding pre-order, you will have to attend fairly some time. Veolo anticipates ultimate meeting at their base in Leipzig will occur late this coming autumn. And their life like buyer supply time-frame is slated from January 2027 onward. As they are saying, “effectively forward of the subsequent driving season“.They reiterated to us that some Veolo 1.0 trailers are nonetheless in inventory for anybody needing to haul their gear straight away.
Veolo Bike Trailer 2.0 is now out there for ‘pre-order’ by way of Kickstarter, the place there may be tons extra data out there, particularly about all of the Add-On prospects.
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