It's a wrap - getting a bike on a train.

[Peter Clinch]

Roos Eisma wrote:

> Wouldn't that be called a "poncho"?

Good point: take a traditional rain cape and just drop it over the bike,
grabbing it through the head-hole. Problem solved!

Pete.
--
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Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
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[Richard]

Roos Eisma wrote:

>>My original thoughts were a load-bearing bag, but I was
>>over-engineering. A nylon cover with a hole for your hand to grab the
>>top-tube is all you'd need. Wouldn't even need to be ripstop, which
>>would bring the price down further.
>
>
> Wouldn't that be called a "poncho"?

Or even just start wearing a large hooped crinoline skirt, and wheel the
bike in under that. (c.f. Reclaim the Streets motorway tree-planting).
I must see if they have them in my size.

Richard.

 

[Tony Raven]

Peter Clinch wrote:
>
> Good point: take a traditional rain cape and just drop it over the bike,
> grabbing it through the head-hole. Problem solved!
>

Brilliant! Anyone got one to try for fit?


--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

 

[RG]

"Tony Raven" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Peter Clinch wrote:
>>
>> Good point: take a traditional rain cape and just drop it over the bike,
>> grabbing it through the head-hole. Problem solved!
>>
>
> Brilliant! Anyone got one to try for fit?
>
>
> --
> Tony
>
> "The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
> right."
> - Lord Hailsham

Sadly, the last raincape I had blew away across a Welsh hillside, never to
be seen again - it did have my name in it if anyone found it. IIRC it was
just after Christmas 1962 )

RG

 

[Adrian Godwin]

Tony Raven <[email protected]> wrote:
> Peter Clinch wrote:
>>
>> Good point: take a traditional rain cape and just drop it over the bike,
>> grabbing it through the head-hole. Problem solved!
>>
>
> Brilliant! Anyone got one to try for fit?
>

Aldi have capes (ponchos) today.

-adrian

 

[Patrick Herring]

"RG" <nochance> wrote:
|
| "John B" <[email protected]> wrote in message
| news:[email protected]...
| >
| > Tony Raven wrote:
| >
| >> RG wrote:
| >> >
| >> > ... rip-stop nylon is the stuff to use
| >> > ...... you do the manufacturing, I'll do the sales marketing!
| >>
| >> All you need now is rip-stop with a gift wrap pattern printed on it.
| >
| > Don't forget the pretty bows, or you'll be ejected by the Guard at the
| > first stop.
|
| No, no - some lateral thinking here ... print a British Rail logo on the bag
| (you know, the sign that implies they don't know which way they are going)
| and it will look "official" )

Does it have to be a bag with the whole bike in? Can't it be a token
parcel-designator wrap, like you get in shops where they don't have a
large enough bag for what you've bought? So, basically, some parcel tape
with the BR logo on wrapped around the top tube should be enough. You
might have to have some way of locking the bars rigid so your "parcel"
isn't floppy.

--
Patrick Herring, http://www.anweald.co.uk/ph

 

[RG]

"Patrick Herring" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "RG" <nochance> wrote:
> |
> | "John B" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> | news:[email protected]...
> | >
> | > Tony Raven wrote:
> | >
> | >> RG wrote:
> | >> >
> | >> > ... rip-stop nylon is the stuff to use
> | >> > ...... you do the manufacturing, I'll do the sales marketing!
> | >>
> | >> All you need now is rip-stop with a gift wrap pattern printed on it.
> | >
> | > Don't forget the pretty bows, or you'll be ejected by the Guard at the
> | > first stop.
> |
> | No, no - some lateral thinking here ... print a British Rail logo on the
> bag
> | (you know, the sign that implies they don't know which way they are
> going)
> | and it will look "official" )
>
> Does it have to be a bag with the whole bike in? Can't it be a token
> parcel-designator wrap, like you get in shops where they don't have a
> large enough bag for what you've bought? So, basically, some parcel tape
> with the BR logo on wrapped around the top tube should be enough. You
> might have to have some way of locking the bars rigid so your "parcel"
> isn't floppy.
>

Now this is getting silly!

RG

 

[Tony Raven]

RG wrote:
>
> Now this is getting silly!
>

It started silly but that was South Eastern Trains' fault


--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
- Lord Hailsham

 

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