Rode into town yesterday, and got back to find my panniers had been opened up and the contents sorted through I was only gone 10 minutes. Nothing has been taken(suprised they didn't take the pump, it was a Blackburn and cost a fair whack), but I'm more annoyed than anything. It was parked up in front of a shopping centre in Reading too, really crowded. What do you do if you have to leave your panniers on the bike unattended? It's such a drag carrying them round. Is there anything else you can do? Was thinking of putting something unpleasant in the bag, but don't want to. Is there such a thing as lockable pannier bags? Bet they'd weigh something if there is.
Chris
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On 31/8/04 1:23 pm, in article [email hidden], "Chris
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Rode into town yesterday, and got back to find my panniers had been opened up and the contents sorted through I was only gone 10 minutes. Nothing has been taken(suprised they didn't take the pump, it was a Blackburn and cost a fair whack), but I'm more annoyed than anything. It was parked up in front of a shopping centre in Reading too, really crowded. What do you do if you have to leave your panniers on the bike unattended? It's such a drag carrying them round. Is there anything else you can do? Was thinking of putting something unpleasant in the bag, but don't want to. Is there such a thing as lockable pannier bags? Bet they'd weigh something if there is.
I've used a pac safe before. It is a lockable steel mesh, designed for rucksacks.
Hi, the same thing happened to me when visiting the local market. One inner tube was taken but luckily my 'Cool Tool' was still their. A street cleaner had seen two teenagers at my panniers and frightened them off. I've visited the market every week for years and this has happened only once. But it does make you a little nervous when leaving the bike.
John.
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Rode into town yesterday, and got back to find my panniers had been opened up and the contents sorted through I was only gone 10 minutes. Nothing has been taken(suprised they didn't take the pump, it was a Blackburn and cost a fair whack), but I'm more annoyed than anything. It was parked up in front of a shopping centre in Reading too, really crowded. What do you do if you have to leave your panniers on the bike unattended? It's such a drag carrying them round. Is there anything else you can do? Was thinking of putting something unpleasant in the bag, but don't want to. Is there such a thing as lockable pannier bags? Bet they'd weigh something if there is.
Chris
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Rode into town yesterday, and got back to find my panniers had been opened up and the contents sorted through I was only gone 10 minutes. Nothing has been taken(suprised they didn't take the pump, it was a Blackburn and cost a fair whack), but I'm more annoyed than anything. It was parked up in front of a shopping centre in Reading too, really crowded.
You say nothing was taken. Could it have been the security people from the shopping centre who had a rummage?
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What do you do if you have to leave your panniers on the bike unattended?
You never have to. Panniers are detachable.
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It's such a drag carrying them round. Is there anything else you can do?
Nope. It's that or leave them at home.
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Was thinking of putting something unpleasant in the bag, but don't want to. Is there such a thing as lockable pannier bags? Bet they'd weigh something if there is.
I've seen metal mesh baskets with locking lids. -- Mark South, Super Genius: World Citizen, Net Denizen
: What do you do if you have to leave your panniers on the bike unattended?
Use a rucksack or a courier bag.
For larger/heavier items I use a trailer. This seems to be sufficietly unusual to not attract oiks even in York, though I don't really leave stuff in it.
Also don't vist shopping centres.
-- Arthur Clune http://www.clune.org "Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect" - Paulina Borsook
Rode into town yesterday, and got back to find my panniers had been opened up and the contents sorted through I was only gone 10 minutes. Nothing has been taken(suprised they didn't take the pump, it was a Blackburn and cost a fair whack), but I'm more annoyed than anything. It was parked up in front of a shopping centre in Reading too, really crowded. What do you do if you have to leave your panniers on the bike unattended? It's such a drag carrying them round. Is there anything else you can do? Was thinking of putting something unpleasant in the bag, but don't want to. Is there such a thing as lockable pannier bags? Bet they'd weigh something if there is.
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Chris
I think you can get wire mesh rucksack covers which might do for panniers. I've forgotten their name, sorry.
I can also recommend hooking panniers to either the inside or the outside of supermarket trolleys which you then push, rather than drag...
Don't know if you're familiar with the town, but the way Reading is laid out now, most of it *is* shopping centre. ): It's all compartmentalised and sterilised, there's an area where the shops are, then there's an area where the bars, restaurants and cinema are. It's as if they're saying "this is where you spend your money, and this is where you have fun". Almost creepy if you think about it. Since it was built, it's totally changed the rest of the town. -- |C|H|R|I|S|@|T|R|I|N|I|T|Y|W|I|L|L|S|.|C|O|M| Remove the bars to contact me
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:16:06 +0200, Mark South <[email hidden]>
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You say nothing was taken. Could it have been the security people from the shopping centre who had a rummage?
I never thought of that. It's a possibility, but I know for a fact that if they do anything to someone's bike (such as telling them not to leave it there or report that someone tried to steal the bike) they leave a note attached to the bike, so I doubt it.
Bags are useful, I am very fond of my courier bag, but they aren't really a proposition for carrying a lot of weight, such as themy shopping. So I will stick with my panniers.
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Chris Davies popped their head over the parapet saw what was going on and said
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Rode into town yesterday, and got back to find my panniers had been opened up and the contents sorted through I was only gone 10 minutes. Nothing has been taken(suprised they didn't take the pump, it was a Blackburn and cost a fair whack), but I'm more annoyed than anything. It was parked up in front of a shopping centre in Reading too, really crowded.
No advice for you just a general whinge, son was in one hospital he needed a small piece of equipment of a size that was held in another hospital, rather than wait for inter hospital requests/delivery et al, offered to collect them myself on the bike. He only needed one so the other 4~5 were left in my panniers whilst I was in the hospital when I came back out from seeing him his equipment was gone ,yes someone had stolen medical equipment from a pushbike in hospital grounds wouldn't have minded so much if the stuff was valuable but it was useless to anyone else (nasal canula to provide O2 therapy)[1],they had merely stolen this stuff as an embuggerance to someone else. O.K. this equipment wasn't very important in the big scheme of things but they weren't to know that (am starting to slam the keys on my board as I remember this incident).
[1] Basically just a plastic tube of a specific size, 1602 in case anyone recognises what I am talking about
Rode into town yesterday, and got back to find my panniers had been opened up and the contents sorted through I was only gone 10 minutes. Nothing has been taken(suprised they didn't take the pump, it was a Blackburn and cost a fair whack), but I'm more annoyed than anything. It was parked up in front of a shopping centre in Reading too, really crowded. What do you do if you have to leave your panniers on the bike unattended? It's such a drag carrying them round. Is there anything else you can do? Was thinking of putting something unpleasant in the bag, but don't want to. Is there such a thing as lockable pannier bags? Bet they'd weigh something if there is.
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:05:04 GMT, Simon Brooke <[email hidden]>
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in message <[email hidden]>, Chris Davies
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Rode into town yesterday, and got back to find my panniers had been opened up and the contents sorted through I was only gone 10 minutes. Nothing has been taken(suprised they didn't take the pump, it was a Blackburn and cost a fair whack), but I'm more annoyed than anything. It was parked up in front of a shopping centre in Reading too, really crowded. What do you do if you have to leave your panniers on the bike unattended? It's such a drag carrying them round. Is there anything else you can do? Was thinking of putting something unpleasant in the bag, but don't want to. Is there such a thing as lockable pannier bags? Bet they'd weigh something if there is.
Label saying "Tarantulas in transit"?
LOL! I like that one... (:
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Rode into town yesterday, and got back to find my panniers had been opened up and the contents sorted through I was only gone 10 minutes. Nothing has been taken(suprised they didn't take the pump, it was a Blackburn and cost a fair whack), but I'm more annoyed than anything. It was parked up in front of a shopping centre in Reading too, really crowded. What do you do if you have to leave your panniers on the bike unattended? It's such a drag carrying them round. Is there anything else you can do? Was thinking of putting something unpleasant in the bag, but don't want to. Is there such a thing as lockable pannier bags? Bet they'd weigh something if there is.
Chris
I don't leave panniers, but frequently wish I could. Have a look in outdoors shops for a pack-net. Wire net that goes over backpacks etc and locks onto things. Might be adaptable to use with panniers, and lock to the bike...
Bags are useful, I am very fond of my courier bag, but they aren't really a proposition for carrying a lot of weight, such as themy shopping. So I will stick with my panniers.
If you use a trailer it's reasonably easy to take a crate with you. At the destination, put the crate in the supermarket trolley, and at the checkout load it up. Back at the bike, lower crate onto trolley, and off you go. Much more convenient than stopping to fill panniers, and if you're carrying tools etc. then leave them in a pouch in the crate.
I've done a fair bit of pannier based shopping in my time, and I've always found it easier to take them in with me and load them at the checkout. This is easier if the bags dismount easily, which also makes it more sensible to take them off in any case...
Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
Yebbut the hooks tend to scratch your legs and who *wants* to walk about dragging 5kg of potatoes all the time?
Put the panniers, and the spuds, in a trolley. At the checkout, put the spuds in the panniers in the trolley, and wheel it out to the bike, ready to load.
Pete. -- Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/
I can also recommend hooking panniers to either the inside or the outside of supermarket trolleys which you then push, rather than drag...
Nice and easy for loading as well.
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Just do not do what I did at the local ASDA, packed the shopping into a pannier at the till after removing the pump from it to make room. left the pump in the bottom of the trolley and forgot it. Went back two hours later but it had not turned up so assumed I had lost it, was in the shop 2 days latter passing the bike equipment and there is the pump sitting there underneath their pumps of course I had just bought and fitted a replacement earlier that day :-(
Yebbut the hooks tend to scratch your legs and who *wants* to walk about dragging 5kg of potatoes all the time?
Put the panniers, and the spuds, in a trolley. At the checkout, put the spuds in the panniers in the trolley, and wheel it out to the bike, ready to load.
Not much use if you're buying a couple of pens 2 or 3 km closer to home than the potato shop, which I think was Helen's point.
Myself, my security is to use a Carradice saddlebag which is always attached to my bike*, and is immune to thieves, being painted in oldfartium, which labels it as holding nothing of any value.
A *except when arriving at my sister's flat, when it gets unbuckled by my brother in law if I don't say leave it on within 8 seconds of getting there. <sigh>
