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d’LITE
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LADY BUG
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SOLO
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ENCORE
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CUB
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BEE
Owner’s Instruction and Safety Manual
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Congratulations! Introduction ® Your Burley trailer is the leading choice of discriminating bicycle trailer Your Burley is shipped 95% factory-assembled. You need only to mount the owners worldwide. Every effort has been made to ensure your purchase is reflectors, install the tongue, attach the wheels, handle, brake, and safety of top quality and proven design, ready to provide you with many years and flag, and snap the cover into place. Once you’ve read the safety guidelines, miles of happy,
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Starting and Stopping Wear Helmets Because of the trailer’s additional weight, a bicycle pulling a trailer will be Numerous studies have shown that head injury is the leading cause of bi- slower to start and stop, and because of its length, requires more time to cycling fatalities. Helmets prevent or reduce bicyclists’ head injuries; it is cross streets or paths. Your entire vehicle is heavier and less responsive. essential that both cyclist and passengers use approved bicycling helmets Thin
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Hardware Bag Contents and Tool List Unfolding Your Burley Trailer To unfold your trailer, rotate the front tube upward and the rear tube back until they meet on the two plastic saddles. Then rotate the two frame locks IMPORTANT: Please verify that you have received all of the contents to snap onto the rear tube. The frame locks should connect adjacent to, and listed. Do not proceed with assembly if any parts are missing; contact to the outside of, the two plastic saddles. Burley immedia
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Mounting the Reflectors Attaching the Wheels ™ ™ First, verify that the tires are inflated to 30-35 P.S.I. Tip the trailer frame Cub : Factory-installed Bee : Rear Reflectors Only onto its rear end. With the quick-release lever in the “OPEN” position, insert All other models: the wheel axle assembly completely into the hollow trailer axle, making sure FRONT: Clear front reflectors are mounted horizontally to both sides of the that the horizontal shaft goes all the way into the axle. Tig
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Retaining Pin Installing and Operating the Tongue ™ ™ ™ ™ d’Lite , Encore , Solo , Lady Bug Tip the trailer onto its rear end. Slide the tongue through the LEFT front tongue receptacle. Depress the safety button to allow it to slide back through Pin in the rear tongue receptacle. Line up the rear hole on the tongue with the locked OPEN CLOSED position hole in the rear tongue receptacle. Insert the pin through both holes. Once inserted, rotate the pin’s spring clip to engage the pin undernea
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™ Attaching the Handle Installing the Cub Parking Brake ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ The trailer should be fully unfolded and the tongue removed. d’Lite , Encore , Solo , Lady Bug , Cub ™ (Bee : no handle) 1. Put the trailer on its nose on the floor with the roll cage leaning against a wall or table. Sort the contents of the hardware bag. Your trailer comes with a handle which allows for easier maneuvering of the 2. Facing the underside of the bucket, locate the rear row of six molded trailer when it’s not attac
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™ Cub : Using the Parking Brake Snap the two front snap buttons ™ For All Trailers Except the Bee to the two snap studs under the Engage the parking brake by pushing the handle to the right. This pushes front rim corners. Attach the male the brake arms outward so that the tip of each brake engages the inside of buckles on the rear cover corners to each tire. Exercise caution when disengaging the brake, as it may spring to the female buckles below the side the left. windows. To disengage
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Padded Seat & Shoulder Harness, Child Seat Using the Seat Harness Recliner, and Recessed Helmet Pocket IMPORTANT: ™ ™ ™ ™ Only passengers who are able to wear a helmet and sit (d’Lite , Solo , Lady Bug , Cub ) upright, unassisted should ride in a child trailer. Adequate neck strength is required by passengers to hold their heads upright while trailering. A To Install Seat Pad: physician should evaluate anyone who is of questionable developmental Attach the seat pad Velcro hook strips to the
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™ Two Passengers, All Models (Except Solo ): Hitching your Burley to Your Bicycle For two children, use both shoulder harnesses and two outer crotch straps. The Burley standard trailer hitch was designed to quickly and safely attach to virtually all types of bicycles. It is attached to the left rear dropout (the 1. If your trailer was set up for single-child use, reverse the process above in non-chainring side) of your bicycle. the Single Passenger section. Set up the restraint system for two
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Safety Checklists Maintenance and Storage Before Each Ride: o Wheels tightly attached WARNING o Tire pressure at 30–35 P.S.I. Do not use or store trailer at temperatures below 2˚F (0 C), as hitch o Hitch properly secured with safety strap in place rubber flex connector can become brittle and possibly break, causing o Locked retaining pins for tongue and roll bar accident resulting in serious injury. o Maximum load 100 lbs. (40 kg. in Europe) Hitch and Tongue Maintenance o Bicycle safety che
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Parts List & Diagram ™ ™ ™ ™ d’Lite , Ladybug , Encore , Solo 1 Note: Contact Burley about parts not listed. 1. Safety flag 2. Handlebar 2 3. Plastic handlebar mount, inner right 4. Plastic handlebar mount, inner left 5. Plastic handlebar mount, outer 6. Knob 7. Roll bar (European trailers only) 8. Brake 9. Wheel 10. Tongue 11. Hitch coupling for tongue 12. Standard hitch 13. Tongue glide 14. Frame assembly, bag holder 15. Tongue mount, front 16. Tongue mount, rear 2 2 17. Uppe
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™ Cub Parts List & Diagram 37 Note: Subassemblies are indented (contact Burley about parts not listed). 1. (1) Polyurethane Shell 2. (2) Front Reflector (clear) 3. (2) Rear Reflector (red) 4. (2) Suspension Elastomer 5. (1) Pair Side Panel Hold Down (left and right) 6. (1) Tongue Retaining Pin 7. (1) Pair Tongue Receptacle (front and rear) 8. (1) Safety Pin & Tether 9. (1) Front Roll Bar, 7/8” Aluminum Tube 10. (2) Frame Locks 11. (2) Front Roll-Bar Hinge (aluminum) 12. (1) Rear Roll
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™ Bee Parts List & Diagram 2 Note: Subassemblies are indented (contact Burley about parts not listed). 1. (1) Preassembled Main Frame Assembly 2. (1) Front Main Frame, 1” Aluminum Tube 1 3. (1) Rear Main Frame, 1” Aluminum Tube 4. (1) Left Frame, 1” Aluminum Tube 5. (1) Right Frame, 1” Aluminum Tube 26 6. (1) Bag Holder, _” Aluminum Tube 7. (1) Axle Assembly 8. (1) Fabric Bottom Bag and Side Panel Assembly 27 9. (1) Front tongue receptacle, Plastic 10. (1) Rear tongue receptacle, Plast
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Burley Trailer Limited Warranty Burley will repair or replace parts it determines to be defective as follows: fabric parts for one year, plastic parts for five years and durable frame parts for the lifetime of the trailer. The owner of a Burley trailer must present the trailer for repair at an Authorized Burley Dealer, together with an original sales receipt or similar proof of purchase. This warranty applies only to the original
