Good idea on the using of a bike to move a heavy load.

Where I live there are many Forest Access Roads that are closed to motorized travel. These are good gravel roads that access terrific remote country and the use of bikes and carts (even horses) are permitted on most of them. A group of my neighbours uses a homemade rickshaw(sp) type cart with 4 tandem bike wheels to move their entire fall hunting tent camp 8 kilometers into a remote forest cutover. The cart is pulled by 2 men on flat ground and 4 men when going uphill. The real work begins after their hunt is successful, carting a bull moose out to the gate where their vehicles are parked.

We also used to access a remote Lake Trout lake beside an abandoned railway line by putting our canoe (with all the camping gear in it) in a homemade wheeled cart. This cart used 2 mountain bike type wheels, mounted in homemade welded forks connected by a crossbar at the axles. Two 3 foot pieces of 2x4 were bolted to the crossbeam and the canoe sat on these. It was hard on fiberglass or kevlar canoes, but aluminum or plastic (Coleman) canoes had no trouble with it.

Mike