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Originally Posted by 2airishuman you might also notice a few other features...
like the small bolted on rear outriggers for the fenders...
'bicycle rack worthy?' i don' think so....
also notice the cables running from each hub/wheel to the center/front of the axle...
and then forward as a single cable.
this is (i think) the cable actuated hand/parking brake....
just like a typical bicycle brake design only the cable is just a tad larger...
and here is a view of the hand lever on the tongue for this brake...
and another handle for the coupler mechanism...
cool.
cheers
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2Air,
thanks for this thread, it is really great!
The Cables running from the hubs to the center are not only for the hand/parking brakes, they are also for the surgebrakes.
The levers on pic two are... The black one is for the anti-sway friction coupler which is a sort of two in one lever from Westfalia (FYI there is an other system on the european market with two levers - one for the anti-sway pads, second one for the coupling to the ball - that system is from Al-Ko). The hand-lever for the hand/parking brake is not very good to see on the pic, but it is the one with the yellow wrap on it - this is also automatically pulled by a second wire, that is connected to the car hitch, in case of emergency e.g. when the coupler jumps of the ball. This happends not very often, but it is mandatory over here and happend to me once in my time pulling trailers (16 years now), when a guy connected the trailer and I didn´t check it!! So, yes - my foult!!!!
Keep on posting in this thread...
BJoern