Our EcoShopper is designed to be lightweight, economical, and water resistant. It has pneumatic tires and is very rugged. Note: this trailer requires a separate purchase of a trailer hitch. We are rating it for 75# loads. When touring with this or any trailer we suggest keeping your loads to around 35# for efficient travel. The payload device on this trailer has a 27 gallon capacity (6237 cu. in.) It will hold around 5 full paper bags of groceries. You can pull it through the market and use it as your shopping cart if you desire. You should consider buying extra hitches to make it easy to move it from bike to bike. Share with house mates and friends. If you have the hitch on your bike it is not a hard decision to use the trailer with the hitches easy one-second on/off ability.