Brompton as a delivery bike

[Tenkaykev]

Our daughter who lives in the Portobello area of Edinburgh sent me this.
The local bookshop has started a home delivery service using Bromptons 😁

 

[Fab Foodie]

Love it!

 

[Rocky]

Perfect!! What a great idea.

 

[12boy]

Until I owned one I didn't realize how great Bromptons with the front bag system are for hauling cargo. I put this down to 3 things...
Low center of gravity.
Easy to mount and dismount, especially when weighted.
Ride improves with weight on the front.
I don't name bikes but I do think of the B as my little mule.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I've already posted this on another thread, but I've cobbled together a shopping bike.

The supermarket wire basket (liberated from M+S) has a 3D printed Brompton luggage adaptor on the front. This means I can use the Brommie in shopping cart mode and then once through the checkout bungee it to the rear rack.

I've cable tied some of the rubbery anti slip mats that are sold to put in car boots, to the rack and also to the bottom of the basket. This dampens vibration and prevents any tendency for the basket to move about.

 

[Gunk]

Our daughter who lives in the Portobello area of Edinburgh sent me this.
The local bookshop has started a home delivery service using Bromptons 😁

That all looks very reassuringly middle class 🧐

 

[u_i]

The supermarket wire basket (liberated from M+S) has a 3D printed Brompton luggage adaptor on the front.

Supermarket baskets cost real money:

https://www.amazon.com/Retail-Shopping-Baskets-Carts/b?ie=UTF8&node=8615548011

 

[steveindenmark]

This would have been a good time to be utilising those bikes. But they are not taking advantage of it.

Notice from Potobello Book shop.

Coronavirus Update For the time being we are CLOSED as a physical shop. But you can order books from us online via our website, or over the phone. We can post most books in print out to you, or you can collect them from the front door of our shop. For now we have made the decision not to operate at all on Sundays until we are past the worst of the coronavirus situation.

 

[Gunk]

I’ve posted this elsewhere (full details of the conversion are detailed in my Brompton project thread) but here’s mine with a converted Decathlon wire mesh basket which clips on and off the standard luggage block. It’s proving really useful for popping down to the local shops.

 

[Tenkaykev]

I’ve posted this elsewhere (full details of the conversion are detailed in my Brompton project thread) but here’s mine with a converted Decathlon wire mesh basket which clips on and off the standard luggage block. It’s proving really useful for popping down to the local shops.

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That's certainly a lot neater than my effort.
I've got the same basket, I'll have another attempt.
Should have lots of time as my "Lockdown letter" just popped through the letterbox 😢

 

[alicat]

Do they have different social distancing rules in Scotland?

 

[12boy]

Gunk, that is a very nice piece of work. Ride it long and prosper.

 

[u_i]

here’s mine with a converted Decathlon wire mesh basket which clips on and off the standard luggage block. It’s proving really useful for popping down to the local shops.

Unless they are provided a bottom support or are limited to really light weights, such baskets sag over time.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I shop on my Brompton with its T bag. It’ll be perfect for helping deliver medicines and smaller qtys of food to isolated people.

 

[Gunk]

Here it is in action earlier this afternoon