Utility Cycling Turkey Challenge

"Not Responding" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Any suggestions as to how I bring the turkey back from the butcher's on
Christmas Eve?

Well that's easy. If it's already dead, bungee it to the rear rack. If it's
still alive bungee it to the rear rack...

I'm still working out how to bungee the beef to the rear rack...

Festive cheers, helen s

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 09:42:40 +0000 someone who may be Not Responding
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Quoted message said:

Any suggestions as to how I bring the turkey back from the butcher's on
Christmas Eve?

Trailer.

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Not Responding said:

Any suggestions as to how I bring the turkey back from the butcher's on
Christmas Eve?

Take the giblets out and pop it onto the bar end?

--
Tony

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right."
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wafflycat said:

I'm still working out how to bungee the beef to the rear rack...

For some reason I have an image of a tinsel bedecked Norfolk woman
bundling a Chippendale onto the back of her bicycle

--
Tony

"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the
right."
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On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:04:07 +0000, Tony Raven <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Not Responding said:

Any suggestions as to how I bring the turkey back from the butcher's on
Christmas Eve?

Take the giblets out and pop it onto the bar end?

On a similar theme, remove your saddle and pop it onto the seat post.

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wafflycat said:

I'm still working out how to bungee the beef to the rear rack...

For some reason I have an image of a tinsel bedecked Norfolk woman
bundling a Chippendale onto the back of her bicycle

Well that's my fantasy err... exposed... err.....
[fx]
Buries blushing head in Ann Summers Lycrawear catalogue
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Festive Cheers, helen s

Not Responding said:

Any suggestions as to how I bring the turkey back from the butcher's on
Christmas Eve?

Last Cycling Plus magazine had the 'products of the year'.
One category winner was a £5 net which resembles a string shopping bag of
old. I saw one in Evans last week, but didn't buy it.
I return the challenge - get one of these cargo nets, put said turkey in
it. Up to you how it gets lashed to the bike.

Not Responding said:

Any suggestions as to how I bring the turkey back from the butcher's on
Christmas Eve?

My 110 litre Jandd mountain expedition panniers don't worry about such
trifles. How big is it?

James
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John Hearns said:

Last Cycling Plus magazine had the 'products of the year'.
One category winner was a £5 net which resembles a string shopping bag of
old. I saw one in Evans last week, but didn't buy it.
I return the challenge - get one of these cargo nets, put said turkey in
it. Up to you how it gets lashed to the bike.

I first assumed you meant one of these:
<URL:http://tinyurl.com/a8g7k> leads to
<URL:http://www.hideout-leather.co.uk/folders/seat_accessories/motrax_cargonet/>

Which I bought years ago for precisely the use pictured, but which I
find even more useful for strapping things to the top of my bike rack or
my BoB.

But the first link that Google found for "cargo net" was this:
<URL:http://tinyurl.com/dxm7j> leads to
<URL:http://www.wiggle.co.uk/Default.aspx?Main=ProductDetail.aspx&W=0&Manufacturer=&UberCatName=&Cat=cycle&CategoryName=Racks&ProdID=5300002385&UberCat=0>

Which doesn't look anywhere near as useful.

Anyway, I recommend the 6-hook version (easily acquired from motorbike
shops), I have no experience of the 2-hook version, but I don't reckon
it will hold a turkey as securely as the 6-hook one.

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James Annan said:

My 110 litre Jandd mountain expedition panniers don't worry about such
trifles. How big is it?

Thought it was a turkey and not dessert we're talking about ;-)

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Not Responding said:

Any suggestions as to how I bring the turkey back from the butcher's
on Christmas Eve?

Bypass the butcher and get the turkey to tow you home from the farm.

~PB

While travelling in Africa it seemed to me that poultry was mandatory
on the back of a bicycle.

POHB said:

While travelling in Africa it seemed to me that poultry was mandatory
on the back of a bicycle.

Or on the front - http://www.lil-fingers.com/turkey/03.html

--
Tony

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

Not Responding said:

Any suggestions as to how I bring the turkey back from the butcher's on
Christmas Eve?

Well, yesterday I took the parcels to the post office in the trailer..
filled the trailer and was able to park right outside the door.

Then home, loaded up the bike with #2 son and the recycling, dumped the
recycling at the tip and picked up a 7ft christmas tree.

Can't imagine a turkey being much of a challenge unless it is either
still alive or at the bottom of a steep hill.

If you don't have a trailer, take a tandem, smallest daughter and get
her to hold the turkey.

Or a bread basket strapped to the rear rack, very strongly, which will
avoind needing to strap the turkey down tightly.

...d

Not Responding said:

Any suggestions as to how I bring the turkey back from the butcher's
on Christmas Eve?

Get it delivered?

Not Responding said:

Any suggestions as to how I bring the turkey back from the butcher's on
Christmas Eve?

Cut eyeholes in the carcass and pop it on your head. It will Save Your
Life(TM) on the way home.

Regards,

-david wonders if this should've gone in the Alternative Helmet Thread below

On 18 Dec 2005 09:11:26 -0800 someone who may be "David Martin"
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Can't imagine a turkey being much of a challenge unless it is either
still alive

Fit one of those cage things, intended for dogs, to the trailer.

--
David Hansen, Edinburgh
I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
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Not Responding said:

Any suggestions as to how I bring the turkey back from the butcher's on
Christmas Eve?

leave me out of this...

:-(

Bertie Wiggins said:

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:04:07 +0000, Tony Raven <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Not Responding said:

Any suggestions as to how I bring the turkey back from the butcher's on
Christmas Eve?

Take the giblets out and pop it onto the bar end?

On a similar theme, remove your saddle and pop it onto the seat post.

probably more effective than a gel saddle, not sure how it would compare
to a brookes though....