Here are some accessories that either I would be interested in or I think others might be interested in. A couple I mentioned in another thread, but I thought it might be useful to add them here:
Amazing feedback/ideas Jim. THANK YOU!!! One overall point is we want the ADV1 to be a platform that others can build ideas on. I've told a ton of people that have come to me with a accessory that if you want to make—and we think the product is well made, useful, and will not hurt the ADV1 or the owners—we will sell that accessory on our website for you! No need for you to make a website and do all that...we'll just add it to our list of products and sell them for you!
- “Roof top” cargo box. Similar to the roof rack cargo carriers on cars and SUVs but smaller and slimmer. Aerodynamic, light weight, fiberglass, clamshell design. This really opens up the options to take your bike, instead of a car, when you have something longer that you need to bring with you.
This is one I had never thought of. Like the cross bars below, that much weight up high worries me, but some type of shell that was lightweight and would hold be interesting. It would be competing, in my mind, with just a simple dry bag. But it would have some advantages (and disadvantages) over a dry bag.
- Cross bars for the top like a roof rack. I suppose these would be simple enough for any owner to fabricate, but the idea is to have a couple cross bars across the top that you could secure larger items to. They don’t need to be very big to be useful. You may not want to encourage your customers to add bulky, top heavy items to their trailers, but few of us ride bikes because they are the most sensible option.
You hit the nail on the head with my concern: facilitating adding too much weight up high. HOWEVER, I think this could be an amazing idea and already have a basic design in my head of how it might be made. It wouldn't be hard. Super interesting!
- 5 gallon bucket holders on the sides, so they can be used as panniers. I find the standard 5 gallon Home Depot bucket to be amazingly useful. Sturdy weatherproof cargo container. Get a lid shaped to be a seat and you have a sturdy seat at camp. Then add all the useful things you can do with a big bucket to get camp chores done. Consider square buckets as well as round so you can get more use of the space on the side of the trailer.
Another one that I would have never thought of and is so smart and practical! And it'd be pretty easy to do!
- Long cargo baskets. Also on the side, like a long pannier. Similar to what you find on cargo bicycles. They would be a good place to carry your groceries or various other odd shopping items and it could all be quickly secured with a simple bungee net on top.
This one we have thought of. I've had two ideas...one would be almost like a cargo net/hammock for the side that would be super light weight and could hold a huge variety of things. It's be versatile, weigh next to nothing, and be quite inexpensive. The other is to have a full-length or maybe a 3/4-length lockable metal pannier for the side. We intend to adapt the ADV1 for our next model, the CRZ1 (for cruisers/Harleys). We think we could make a metal pannier that would be sleak and make the whole trailer look much more "Harley'esque." And we know who could make them for us almost without thought...the team that make our lockable internal storage box and our fender. They make metal boxes/tool cabinets all day, every day. They could make us a prototype probably within a week. But we have to find the time to design it! I've also thought that we could probably figure out a way to make a 3/4-length soft bag as well.
And I'm thinking 3/4 because if we left just enough room for a shelf, there would still be room for a cooler or a rotopax.
