Shopping bike......
- Thread starter Gary E
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oldfatfool
Guru
Fantastic tourer
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
Ideal for discovering the Aisle of Tresco.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
We've got 17 Morrisons trolleys clogging up our recycling compound, all recovered from being dumped on the nature reserve. If they don't collect them soon, we might have to make some of those!
(Actually, having requested them to be collected three weeks ago, we're going to write and demand they picked up, or we charge for storage).
(Actually, having requested them to be collected three weeks ago, we're going to write and demand they picked up, or we charge for storage).
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Saw a chap with a shopping trolley leave his home and head off to Asda the other day. Seemed he keeps it for his too-ing and fro-ing (or maybe he was just returning it). His walk would be about a mile I think so he was being green even if he had "borrowed" the trolley 
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Saw a chap with a shopping trolley leave his home and head off to Asda the other day. Seemed he keeps it for his too-ing and fro-ing (or maybe he was just returning it). His walk would be about a mile I think so he was being green even if he had "borrowed" the trolley
No problem with people borrowing them, it's when they borrow them as far as home, and then dump them that's a problem.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Precisely
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
imagine how noisy that is
classic33
Leg End Member
Re-cycle them. They don't come cheap. I offerred to return a "few" to the local Morrisons & was offerred £20 for each one returned. They baulked when they enquired how many I'd be returning. Approx 75-80, all within 1/2 a mile of the store.
They had a lorry & a couple of employees go & fetch them instead.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Bloody hell, £20 each! We'd walk them back for that.
Although we just want rid of them. Money would be a bonus.
Stephenite
Membå
- Location
- OslO
Saw a chap with a shopping trolley leave his home and head off to Asda the other day. Seemed he keeps it for his too-ing and fro-ing (or maybe he was just returning it). His walk would be about a mile I think so he was being green even if he had "borrowed" the trolley
Sounds like an episode of The Road. If it was a series, that is. ...If it was he'd like it.
classic33
Leg End Member
Walk them back was what I'd planned on doing.
They start at £150-£180 new. Given that they have the coin operated "lock", add another £30 on top. Have a word with the store manager with regards their return & returning anymore you come across.
Stephenite
Membå
- Location
- OslO
Before the winter set in here I took my (now) 2 year old to the supermarket in the bike-trailer. When i arrived the bike farcility was up on end and leant against the wall, so i parked the bike and trailer in the only available parking space. It is to my greatest disappointment that i didn't get a photo. Still regret it now, months later. It fitted perfectly lengthwise, and there was good room to dismount, swinging my lankey legs up and around in the air with gay abandon. If you could picture that. No need to lock it up, of course ...this is Norway, and not the land of thieving magpies i left behind. (Please remember my early influences were forged in Salford and Fallowfield).
The bike i use for shopping (what i call my knocking-about-on bike) was rescued from a skip outside the block. A neighbour, a regular (fine-weather) cycle-commuter was admiring my newish car last week. He'd given his car up a couple of years ago as it costs a fortune to run one (here in Norway, much more than in UK). He said the worst thing was shopping. He would often have to make two trips for the one shop. He's a fit fella of thirtyish, but i can empathise. So i said he could use my/the shopping bike and trailer whenever he wanted. I'm often in the car these days because of the job (i hate it, applying for a job twice a month, begrenset utvalg, blahdy blah). And he was like "I can't just use that. It's all shiny and new. What if it gets nicked?" And I was like "It's your bloody bike, knobend!"
He didn't get the 'knobend' bit, being a Noggins. But he is borrowing my Ice Spikers for the rest of the season. I'm a Marathon Winter man meself.
The bike i use for shopping (what i call my knocking-about-on bike) was rescued from a skip outside the block. A neighbour, a regular (fine-weather) cycle-commuter was admiring my newish car last week. He'd given his car up a couple of years ago as it costs a fortune to run one (here in Norway, much more than in UK). He said the worst thing was shopping. He would often have to make two trips for the one shop. He's a fit fella of thirtyish, but i can empathise. So i said he could use my/the shopping bike and trailer whenever he wanted. I'm often in the car these days because of the job (i hate it, applying for a job twice a month, begrenset utvalg, blahdy blah). And he was like "I can't just use that. It's all shiny and new. What if it gets nicked?" And I was like "It's your bloody bike, knobend!"
He didn't get the 'knobend' bit, being a Noggins. But he is borrowing my Ice Spikers for the rest of the season. I'm a Marathon Winter man meself.
