Burley Bike Trailer Instructions

Burley bike trailers are fairly easy to attach to your bike: all you need is a bike with a quick-release rear wheel and a Burley trailer. All Burley trailers have the same attachment system, so it doesn't matter what model you have--these instructions work on all of them. Of course, if your bike doesn't have a quick-release rear wheel, you can always bring it to your local bike shop and ask them to switch out your axle for one with a quick-release.

Instructions

    • 1

      Verify that your rear wheel has a quick-release skewer. If it does, there will be a skewer lever on the left, non-drive side of the wheel. There will also be a simple nut on the drive side. If you don't have a quick-release wheel, you'll have two nuts, one on each side of the wheel's axle, so you'll need to take your bike to a bike shop and have the axle replaced with one that accommodates a quick-release.

    • 2

      Open the quick-release and remove the skewer by unthreading it entirely from the nut and pulling the skewer out. Leave the wheel in place and make sure not to lose either of the springs on the skewer.

    • 3

      Thread the Burley trailer hitch onto the lever side of the skewer. Keep the spring on the frame side of the hitch, between the wheel and the hitch. The two tabs on the hitch that will attach to the trailer arm should face away from the wheel.

    • 4

      Replace the skewer in the wheel. The springs should be oriented with the small end of the cone facing the wheel and the wide end facing the lever or the nut of the skewer. Tighten the skewer down completely, making sure that the wheel is all the way at the back of the dropouts.

    • 5

      Remove the pin from the trailer arm and slide the arm into the hitch so that the holes line up. Replace the pin and slide the locking pin out so that the trailer doesn't work its way out.

    • 6

      Wrap the safety strap around the chain-stay of your bicycle and clip it back onto the D-ring on the trailer arm.