Grocery capacity

The Nashbar wicker basket works to finally let you move one of your
gallon jugs from the rear carrier to the front of the bike (along
with six canned veggies), balancing things out a little better
and leaving you yet more room for stuff on sale (unlike panniers,
it doesn't crush milk jugs)

http://home.att.net/~rhhardin2/bikebackupc.jpg

making my backup bike actually a better errand bike than my primary
Huffy.

It's a fairly sturdy basket and mounting but I don't think more than
around 15 pounds is a great idea for it.

(A basket would block two of my 4 EL-500's on the handlebars, on
the primary bike. The backup bike uses two HL-1500's at night,
and they're safely up on space bars.)

The wicker basket also blocks cold crotch-numbing winter wind.

I suppose I ought to find the page...hmm

It seems to be gone. The product code was NA-TFB $29.99

Never mind.
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Bah, it's all about Wald folding wire baskets. :P

http://lexcobike.thomasnet.com/item/adults-1049/baskets/582bl?&plpver=10&origin=viewitems&assetid=spec

Ron Hardin <[email hidden]> wrote in news:43A6DFBC.5920
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Quoted message said:

The Nashbar wicker basket works to finally let you move one of your
gallon jugs from the rear carrier to the front of the bike

You know, it's a law in some jurisdictions that every wicker basket needs a
white plastic daisy. Better check your municipal traffic regs.

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In article <[email hidden]>,

Ron Hardin said:

The Nashbar wicker basket works to finally let you move one of your
gallon jugs from the rear carrier to the front of the bike (along
with six canned veggies), balancing things out a little better
and leaving you yet more room for stuff on sale (unlike panniers,
it doesn't crush milk jugs)

How are they for transporting pizzas (which have to lie flat)?

cheers,
Tom

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Ever heard of delivery? The whole idea of transporting a hot
airfoil/pizza by bicycle makes me shiver. With my luck a gust of wind
would blow it out of the box and onto my face and then I'd have to
endure years of pepperoni removing surgery. [shivers]

Fortunately, I have a nice pizzeria fifty feet or so from the front
gate.

Walking will have to do. 😄

http://www.bikesatwork.com/

Tom Keats said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ron Hardin said:

The Nashbar wicker basket works to finally let you move one of your
gallon jugs from the rear carrier to the front of the bike (along
with six canned veggies), balancing things out a little better
and leaving you yet more room for stuff on sale (unlike panniers,
it doesn't crush milk jugs)

How are they for transporting pizzas (which have to lie flat)?

Not enough bottom area. It's more than a gallon jug needs (but
not enough for two gallon jugs). A gallon jug and about 3 canned
vegetables exhaust the space, albeit not efficiently. Of course you
can stack the vegetables and get more in ; more than you really want,
weightwise, at some point.

My desire was to get rid of one of the gallon jugs from the back
and leave room for other stuff on those days when two gallon jugs
were called for ; without crushing the gallon jug in some pannier.

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Earl Bollinger said:

"Ron Hardin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

The Nashbar wicker basket works to finally let you move one of your
gallon jugs from the rear carrier to the front of the bike (along
with six canned veggies), balancing things out a little better
and leaving you yet more room for stuff on sale (unlike panniers,
it doesn't crush milk jugs)

http://home.att.net/~rhhardin2/bikebackupc.jpg

making my backup bike actually a better errand bike than my primary
Huffy.

It's a fairly sturdy basket and mounting but I don't think more than
around 15 pounds is a great idea for it.

(A basket would block two of my 4 EL-500's on the handlebars, on
the primary bike. The backup bike uses two HL-1500's at night,
and they're safely up on space bars.)

The wicker basket also blocks cold crotch-numbing winter wind.

I suppose I ought to find the page...hmm

It seems to be gone. The product code was NA-TFB $29.99

Never mind.
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Ron Hardin
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On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

Not bad at all. I tend to lean towards the Wald metal baskets myself.
here is my shopping bike: http://tinypic.com/ivy5cp.jpg
I went for the big basket as I always seem to have something that dowsn't
fit well in the rear baskets.
Those are the Wald folding baskets on the rear too. Unfortunately most
stores don't have the classic paper bags anymore that fit these baskets just
right.

..

"maxo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Ever heard of delivery? The whole idea of transporting a hot
airfoil/pizza by bicycle makes me shiver.

One day I ordered pizza for a party and was surprise to see the delivery guy
cycle up with his burley trailer full of pizza. What made him even happier
was he had two deliveries in that trailer, and the other was just across the
street. And yes, the pizza was hot.

Cathy Kearns said:

"maxo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Ever heard of delivery? The whole idea of transporting a hot
airfoil/pizza by bicycle makes me shiver.

One day I ordered pizza for a party and was surprise to see the delivery guy
cycle up with his burley trailer full of pizza. What made him even happier
was he had two deliveries in that trailer, and the other was just across the
street. And yes, the pizza was hot.

Trailers are for when there's serious loads to be humped home
http://home.att.net/~rhhardin/bikestuff.jpg

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On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:26:31 -0800, [email hidden] (Tom Keats)

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ron Hardin said:

The Nashbar wicker basket works to finally let you move one of your
gallon jugs from the rear carrier to the front of the bike (along
with six canned veggies), balancing things out a little better
and leaving you yet more room for stuff on sale (unlike panniers,
it doesn't crush milk jugs)

How are they for transporting pizzas (which have to lie flat)?

cheers,
Tom

I've got a Topeak metal basket on the back of my Tour Easy & it
handles paizzas just fine. No, they don't fit inside the basket, but i
set a pizza box onto the basket at a 45 degree angle, so the corners
overlap the sides ofthe basket & use bungee/hod downs.

Works graet.

Indiana Mike

Mike Rice said:

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:26:31 -0800, [email hidden] (Tom Keats)

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ron Hardin said:

The Nashbar wicker basket works to finally let you move one of your
gallon jugs from the rear carrier to the front of the bike (along
with six canned veggies), balancing things out a little better
and leaving you yet more room for stuff on sale (unlike panniers,
it doesn't crush milk jugs)

How are they for transporting pizzas (which have to lie flat)?

cheers,
Tom

I've got a Topeak metal basket on the back of my Tour Easy & it
handles paizzas just fine. No, they don't fit inside the basket, but i
set a pizza box onto the basket at a 45 degree angle, so the corners
overlap the sides ofthe basket & use bungee/hod downs.

Works graet.

Indiana Mike

This pic doesn't show the basket especially well, but a view of my
bike (with said basket attached) may be seen at:

http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=iwrfpz

I really like this particular basket, too bad they stopped producing
them. It features a twin track that interlocks with the Topeak rack &
locks tto the bar of the spring-loaded portion of the rack for a quick
release.

Indiana Mike

Ron Hardin said:

The Nashbar wicker basket works to finally let you move one of your
gallon jugs from the rear carrier to the front of the bike (along
with six canned veggies), balancing things out a little better
and leaving you yet more room for stuff on sale (unlike panniers,
it doesn't crush milk jugs)

http://home.att.net/~rhhardin2/bikebackupc.jpg

making my backup bike actually a better errand bike than my primary
Huffy.

It's a fairly sturdy basket and mounting but I don't think more than
around 15 pounds is a great idea for it.

(A basket would block two of my 4 EL-500's on the handlebars, on
the primary bike. The backup bike uses two HL-1500's at night,
and they're safely up on space bars.)

The wicker basket also blocks cold crotch-numbing winter wind.

I suppose I ought to find the page...hmm

It seems to be gone. The product code was NA-TFB $29.99

Never mind.
--
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On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

I'd like to find a good way to carry bulky, heavy stuff that woulkd put most of
the weight on the front tire (since I myself load the rear tire pretty
heavily). I have rear panniers so naturally considered front panniers first.
But I cringe at the idea of trying anything that puts mass on the steering
assembly, because I fear that mass there would make steering sluggish. I've
ridden with a plastic shopping bag hanging from one hand many times (when I
forgot to take a pannier and wound up buying something while out), and even a
half gallon of ice cream in the bag makes steering sluggish. I wouldn't want
anything as massive as a gallon of milk there.

I've never used front panniers. How badly do they slow down steering when
they're good and loaded?

I have two bikes, each a 10-speed road with 27 x 1.25" tires.

--
Michael

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ron Hardin said:

Tom Keats said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ron Hardin said:

The Nashbar wicker basket works to finally let you move one of your
gallon jugs from the rear carrier to the front of the bike (along
with six canned veggies), balancing things out a little better
and leaving you yet more room for stuff on sale (unlike panniers,
it doesn't crush milk jugs)

How are they for transporting pizzas (which have to lie flat)?

Not enough bottom area. It's more than a gallon jug needs (but
not enough for two gallon jugs). A gallon jug and about 3 canned
vegetables exhaust the space, albeit not efficiently. Of course you
can stack the vegetables and get more in ; more than you really want,
weightwise, at some point.

My desire was to get rid of one of the gallon jugs from the back
and leave room for other stuff on those days when two gallon jugs
were called for ; without crushing the gallon jug in some pannier.

I don't actually drink milk, but I use it for cooking.
So I just get the powdered stuff. Easy to transport,
and easy to store.

If you need some fresh milk for immediate use and more milk for
future/contingency use, maybe you could compromise, and get
both liquid & powdered milk? And maybe that might make
transporting it less problematic? It's just a suggestion
anyway.

cheers,
Tom

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In article <[email hidden]>,

maxo said:

Ever heard of delivery?

Ever heard of 10% pick-up discount? :-)

Besides, my most frequented pizza joint is just across
from the re-tox centre (liquor store) so while I'm waiting
for the pie I can zip across for a couple of appropriate
pizza-eating brewskies. Tall can Heinekens have been
hitting the spot lately.

Quoted message said:

The whole idea of transporting a hot
airfoil/pizza by bicycle makes me shiver.

After much experimentation and thought, I've figured it out.
The trick is to tuck the pizza box inside multiple layers
of sweatshirts, and bungee that on top of your milk crate or
rack. It really does work! Best of all, the pie stays hot-off
without the box "sweating." One can even stick multiple layers
of boxed pizzas in there.

Quoted message said:

With my luck a gust of wind
would blow it out of the box and onto my face and then I'd have to
endure years of pepperoni removing surgery. [shivers]

Naw. Y'know what? For years I've transported full, dozen egg cartons,
and have busted nary a one. (Not so lucky with half-dozen half-cartons.)

cheers,
Tom

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Ron Hardin said:

The Nashbar wicker basket works to finally let you move one of your
gallon jugs from the rear carrier to the front of the bike (along
with six canned veggies), balancing things out a little better
and leaving you yet more room for stuff on sale (unlike panniers,
it doesn't crush milk jugs)

http://home.att.net/~rhhardin2/bikebackupc.jpg

making my backup bike actually a better errand bike than my primary
Huffy.

It's a fairly sturdy basket and mounting but I don't think more than
around 15 pounds is a great idea for it.

(A basket would block two of my 4 EL-500's on the handlebars, on
the primary bike. The backup bike uses two HL-1500's at night,
and they're safely up on space bars.)

The wicker basket also blocks cold crotch-numbing winter wind.

I suppose I ought to find the page...hmm

It seems to be gone. The product code was NA-TFB $29.99

Never mind.

Nashbar has it back in the catalog for $24.99

Expected restock in Feb, you can back-order it at 1-800-627-4227

It really is a nice addition and mechanically sound, and removeable though
I don't know why you'd want to remove it in actual practice.

Which is to say mine hasn't done anything bad since I got it, and has carried
a lot of stuff, including a large rice cooker balanced on top and secured with
a rope made of square-knotted plastic Kroger bags.
--
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On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ron Hardin said:

Nashbar has it back in the catalog for $24.99

Expected restock in Feb, you can back-order it at 1-800-627-4227

It really is a nice addition and mechanically sound, and removeable though
I don't know why you'd want to remove it in actual practice.

Which is to say mine hasn't done anything bad since I got it, and has carried
a lot of stuff, including a large rice cooker balanced on top and secured
with a rope made of square-knotted plastic Kroger bags.

One of those would look pretty good on the front of my Raleigh Twenty --
with that longish headtube & stem, there's a lot of negative space to
fill up front there. And wicker has that warm, appealing quaintness
when you don't have cats to tear it to shreds sharpening their claws
on it. And maybe certain foods retain their je ne sais quois when
brought home from the shops in an organic wicker basket instead of
some rattly, wiry crabtrap or a plastic box.

cheers,
Tom

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Tom Keats said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ron Hardin said:

Nashbar has it back in the catalog for $24.99

Expected restock in Feb, you can back-order it at 1-800-627-4227

It really is a nice addition and mechanically sound, and removeable though
I don't know why you'd want to remove it in actual practice.

Which is to say mine hasn't done anything bad since I got it, and has carried
a lot of stuff, including a large rice cooker balanced on top and secured
with a rope made of square-knotted plastic Kroger bags.

One of those would look pretty good on the front of my Raleigh Twenty --
with that longish headtube & stem, there's a lot of negative space to
fill up front there. And wicker has that warm, appealing quaintness
when you don't have cats to tear it to shreds sharpening their claws
on it. And maybe certain foods retain their je ne sais quois when
brought home from the shops in an organic wicker basket instead of
some rattly, wiry crabtrap or a plastic box.

Sadly, the U.K. really beats the U.S. in the availability of wicker
bicycle baskets, see:

"http://www.fisheroutdoor.co.uk/public/index.php/product/baskets/basil/shopperwicker/"

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 23:28:30 -0800, [email hidden] (Tom Keats)

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Which is to say mine hasn't done anything bad since I got it, and has carried
a lot of stuff, including a large rice cooker balanced on top and secured
with a rope made of square-knotted plastic Kroger bags.

One of those would look pretty good on the front of my Raleigh Twenty --
with that longish headtube & stem, there's a lot of negative space to
fill up front there. And wicker has that warm, appealing quaintness
when you don't have cats to tear it to shreds sharpening their claws
on it. And maybe certain foods retain their je ne sais quois when
brought home from the shops in an organic wicker basket instead of
some rattly, wiry crabtrap or a plastic box.

The huge news-boy basket on my twenty inch Norco holds large packages
nicely. Small stuff falls through the widely spaced steel straps that
form the basket. It requires a cardboard box as a liner when doing
shopping runs.

I was thinking of stealing a hunk of that plastic fencing stuff to
zip-tie in there but somebody suggested weaving it with willow
branches. And somebody else suggested cedar bark. Either would
certainly moderate the cow-catcher look it now has.
Sounds like a fun project and if it doesn't work out, it's entirely
reversible.
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