The new Waitrose supermarket in West Ealing opened in September with a scheme to promote cycling. It has 15 cycle trailers which customers can use to take their shopping home. The trailers are free for three days, and anyone with a Waitrose / John Lewis store card can borrow them. A member of Waitrose's staff will fix a bracket to the seat post of your bike, and then you attach the trailer to this. If you use a trailer regularly, they will provide a permanent bracket.
Waitrose isn't like Lidl you know. You don't buy crates of beer, you select hand-crafted bottles from an individually chosen organic collection of premium ales.
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They look useless. How many beer crates could you get in one?
Waitrose isn't like Lidl you know. You don't buy crates of beer, you select hand-crafted bottles from an individually chosen organic collection of premium ales.
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They look useless. How many beer crates could you get in one?
They do look a bit twee. I certainly couldn't fit my weekly shop in one.
Two maybe at a stretch. What is the loading rated for?
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:02:42 +0100 someone who may be "POHB" <[email hidden]> wrote this:-
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The new Waitrose supermarket in West Ealing opened in September with a scheme to promote cycling. It has 15 cycle trailers which customers can use to take their shopping home.
It has been introduced elsewhere, no idea how successful it was. The trailers are Bike Hods.
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On 4 Oct 2005 06:25:29 -0700 someone who may be "sothach" <[email hidden]> wrote this:-
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They look useless.
Do they?
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How many beer crates could you get in one?
Three easily.
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Waitrose isn't like Lidl you know. You don't buy crates of beer, you select hand-crafted bottles from an individually chosen organic collection of premium ales.
Hmmm, the one in Noomarket had cases of Fosters and Harp piled high this afternoon. Their own=brand "Wessex Bitter" is what I haul home, together with a few bottles of Spitfire (for special occasions only, such as sunset ;-).
A member of Waitrose's staff will fix a bracket to the seat post of your bike, and then you attach the trailer to this. If you use a trailer regularly, they will provide a permanent bracket.
I'd like to see them try fitting a bracket to my seatpost :-)
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A member of Waitrose's staff will fix a bracket to the seat post of your bike, and then you attach the trailer to this. If you use a trailer regularly, they will provide a permanent bracket.
On 4 Oct 2005 07:09:35 -0700 someone who may be "David Martin" <[email hidden]> wrote this:-
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They do look a bit twee. I certainly couldn't fit my weekly shop in one.
Without a long discussion about your particular circumstances that does not advance the discussion much.
Doesn't need much discussion. Last trip I did with the trailer was five curver boxes and a couple of loose bits (1 mop and a couple of baguettes.) I typically take a stack of 6 crates with me when I go shopping which seems to work just fine.
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Two maybe at a stretch. What is the loading rated for?
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Waitrose isn't like Lidl you know. You don't buy crates of beer, you select hand-crafted bottles from an individually chosen organic collection of premium ales.
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They look useless. How many beer crates could you get in one?
They do look a bit twee. I certainly couldn't fit my weekly shop in one.
Two maybe at a stretch. What is the loading rated for?
Is it *legal* to pull two trailers with a pushbike? Would Waitrose let you have two?
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Waitrose isn't like Lidl you know. You don't buy crates of beer, you select hand-crafted bottles from an individually chosen organic collection of premium ales.
"sothach" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > They look useless. How many beer crates could you get in one?
They do look a bit twee. I certainly couldn't fit my weekly shop in one.
Two maybe at a stretch. What is the loading rated for?
Is it *legal* to pull two trailers with a pushbike? Would Waitrose let you have two?
No idea, and I don't intend to try. I have a suitable trailer already.
The new Waitrose supermarket in West Ealing opened in September with a scheme to promote cycling. It has 15 cycle trailers which customers can use to take their shopping home. The trailers are free for three days, and anyone with a Waitrose / John Lewis store card can borrow them. A member of Waitrose's staff will fix a bracket to the seat post of your bike, and then you attach the trailer to this. If you use a trailer regularly, they will provide a permanent bracket.
That's a Bike Hod. I used to use one myself - an excellent trailer for just this purpose.
Congratulations to them!
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60kg/132lb then? Not a good idea with a high-mount drawbar.
Used to have one, used it for twelve years. No problem, apart from very high-speed (>40mph) corners. For urban shopping, an ideal solution.
My first child trailer had a high-mount drawbar (the old Hebie one), and it never felt very stable cornering, even at much less than 40mph, but particularly on downhill hairpins. But the thing I really didn't like was the way it would lift the back wheel off the ground when braking.
Since got a new trailer with a side-mount, and it feels a brazillion times better, except for a slight tendancy to slide the rear wheel in a fast turn, but not enough to make me shell out for Weber over-run trailer brakes. -rory
On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 05:08:31 GMT someone who may be "ian henden" <[email hidden]> wrote this:-
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Is it *legal* to pull two trailers with a pushbike?
The basis of law in the UK is that if it is not illegal then that is that. I have not noticed any laws preventing the towing of more than one trailer and I probably would know if there were. One would have to consider what weight was being carried in order to get up and down hills. Snaking would not be a problem due to the design of the coupling, provided that one had a sensible load in the trailers.
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Would Waitrose let you have two?
Bike Hod used to do a special towing arm that had a coupling on the back so that one could tow more than one trailer. There was a photograph of six being towed. That special arm is not now on their rather too corporate for my liking web site.
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