Passenger stand for bicycles

Quoted message said:

I'm trying to find where I can get info about plates or something that
a passenger can stand on when you're (slowly-moderately) riding a
(street) bike. For more info, see my question here

Better check your state's laws. I am pretty sure that sort of thing is
illegal here in Texas.

Pat

Quoted message said:

I'm trying to find where I can get info about plates or something that
a passenger can stand on when you're (slowly-moderately) riding a
(street) bike. For more info, see my question here

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080401154348AAoWLk0

You could fit BMX style pegs to your back wheel (may require a new
axle) or fit a 'strong' luggage rack and go dutch...
http://bp0.blogger.com/_jdgaGaDfeqE/Rl-tIk-VtDI/AAAAAAAAAZI/tpodCqZFz70/s1600-h/Velorution+-+Dutch+guy+w+lady+on+back.jpg

Or even get a Surly Big Dummy, as Surly claim...

What does a Big Dummy do? Using Xtracycle plug-in components, it hauls
your groceries, tools, human and animal friends, surfboard, work duds,
briefcase, vacuum cleaner, firewood, moonshine, camping gear, banjo,
mulch, and anything else you can imagine, while providing the
functionality, durability, and sweet ride characteristics that Surly
bikes are known for. Use the Big Dummy for commuting to work, running
errands, taking the kids to school, farm/yard work, touring, or just
riding around cuz it's fun.

http://www.surlybikes.com/bigdummy.html

Marz said:

Quoted message said:

I'm trying to find where I can get info about plates or something that
a passenger can stand on when you're (slowly-moderately) riding a
(street) bike. For more info, see my question here

Quoted message said:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080401154348AAoWLk0

You could fit BMX style pegs to your back wheel (may require a new
axle) or fit a 'strong' luggage rack and go dutch...http://bp0.blogger.com/_jdgaGaDfeqE/Rl-tIk-VtDI/AAAAAAAAAZI/tpodCqZFz...

Or even get a Surly Big Dummy, as Surly claim...

What does a Big Dummy do? Using Xtracycle plug-in components, it hauls
your groceries, tools, human and animal friends, surfboard, work duds,
briefcase, vacuum cleaner, firewood, moonshine, camping gear, banjo,
mulch, and anything else you can imagine, while providing the
functionality, durability, and sweet ride characteristics that Surly
bikes are known for. Use the Big Dummy for commuting to work, running
errands, taking the kids to school, farm/yard work, touring, or just
riding around cuz it's fun.

http://www.surlybikes.com/bigdummy.html

Or, to your existing upright bicycle get an
http://www.xtracycle.com/index.php
http://www.xtracycle.com/freeradical-hitchless-trailer-convert-your-bike-p-2.html
and
http://www.xtracycle.com/-footsies--p-17.html

Mike A Schwab said:

Marz said:

Quoted message said:

I'm trying to find where I can get info about plates or something that
a passenger can stand on when you're (slowly-moderately) riding a
(street) bike. For more info, see my question here

Quoted message said:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080401154348AAoWLk0

You could fit BMX style pegs to your back wheel (may require a new
axle) or fit a 'strong' luggage rack and go dutch...http://bp0.blogger.com/_jdgaGaDfeqE/Rl-tIk-VtDI/AAAAAAAAAZI/tpodCqZFz...

Or even get a Surly Big Dummy, as Surly claim...

What does a Big Dummy do? Using Xtracycle plug-in components, it hauls
your groceries, tools, human and animal friends, surfboard, work duds,
briefcase, vacuum cleaner, firewood, moonshine, camping gear, banjo,
mulch, and anything else you can imagine, while providing the
functionality, durability, and sweet ride characteristics that Surly
bikes are known for. Use the Big Dummy for commuting to work, running
errands, taking the kids to school, farm/yard work, touring, or just
riding around cuz it's fun.

http://www.surlybikes.com/bigdummy.html

Or, to your existing upright bicycle get an
http://www.xtracycle.com/index.php
http://www.xtracycle.com/freeradical-hitchless-trailer-convert-your-bike-p-2.html
and
http://www.xtracycle.com/-footsies--p-17.html

Yee-haw!! Xtracycle surfing:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockthebike/255456287/in/set-72157594304294799/>

And you can stack 'em too:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockthebike/525254736/in/set-72157594304294799/>
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zk

Quoted message said:

I'm trying to find where I can get info about plates or something that
a passenger can stand on when you're (slowly-moderately) riding a
(street) bike. For more info, see my question

I used to have a really short girlfriend and she would ride with me on
my folding bike (Here's a pic http://i25.tinypic.com/2uf4zk4.jpg ),
with her feet on the luggage rack (where the lock is in the picture),
and her arms around my shoulders. That was the cutest.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Quoted message said:

I'm trying to find where I can get info about plates or something that
a passenger can stand on when you're (slowly-moderately) riding a
(street) bike. For more info, see my question here

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080401154348AAoWLk0

Just have a spare bike available to lend
to your would-be passenger.

Keep the "good" bike for yourself ;-)

But please remember: Etiquette dictates that
when, at intersections, you get a break in
cross-traffic of which you can take advantage
but your riding partner can't, you've gotta
wait up for them to catch up to you (in their
own, careful time,) on the other side of that
intersection. 'Cuz it often occurs that the
lead rider can go, but the trailing rider shouldn't,
because the break in the cross-traffic isn't big
enough for /two/ single-file bikes to make it across.

As for riding double, it's unlawful now in many
jurisdictions, and probably rightly so. But my
earliest bicycling memories are of riding double
on my older brothers' bikes, before I learnt to
ride, myself. My interest in amateur astronomy
was piqued while riding double on one of my
brother's bikes, being retrieved homeward from
my grandparent's place at night. I still recall
the cool/warm feel of the still, night air flowing
gently over my face while an inkling of the awesomeness
of Creation dawned upon me as I sat on that handlebar,
looking up at the W of Cassiopoiea. (I was just a li'l
younker back then.) That was back during the reigns of
Diefenbaker and Eisenhower, and scary air-raid siren
tests, the advent of Sputnik, and the demise of Buddy
Holly et al. That was back when people had to walk up
to their TV sets to turn the knob to get the "other"
channel, and fiddle with jacknife switches & rabbit ears
to get the other-other channel, and My Generation invented
the skateboard by nailing sawed-in-half, clamp-on
roller skates onto planks.

So, yeah: riding double is an experience.

Handle with care.

cheers,
Tom

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(Tom Keats) said:

As for riding double, it's unlawful now in many
jurisdictions, and probably rightly so.

I thought it was only unlawful if the bike isn't desgined to carry
two. If you fit an xtracycle kit to a bike, you turn it into a bike
made for two with a seat a foot pegs.

Quoted message said:

As for riding double, it's unlawful now in many
jurisdictions, and probably rightly so.

I thought it was only unlawful if the bike isn't desgined to carry
two. If you fit an xtracycle kit to a bike, you turn it into a bike
made for two with a seat a foot pegs.

Here's what the State of Texas has on the books about that:

§ 551.102. GENERAL OPERATION. (a) A person operating a
bicycle shall ride only on or astride a permanent and regular seat
attached to the bicycle.
(b) A person may not use a bicycle to carry more persons than
the bicycle is designed or equipped to carry.
(c) A person operating a bicycle may not use the bicycle to
carry an object that prevents the person from operating the bicycle
with at least one hand on the handlebars of the bicycle.
(d) A person operating a bicycle, coaster, sled, or toy
vehicle or using roller skates may not attach either the person or
the bicycle, coaster, sled, toy vehicle, or roller skates to a
streetcar or vehicle on a roadway.

Tom Keats said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Quoted message said:

I'm trying to find where I can get info about plates or something that
a passenger can stand on when you're (slowly-moderately) riding a
(street) bike. For more info, see my question here

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080401154348AAoWLk0

Just have a spare bike available to lend
to your would-be passenger.

Isn't that what a tandem's for? If you're going to haul them around,
they can at least help out with the work. :-)

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John ([email hidden])