Weekly food shop... on your bike?

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byegad

Legendary Member
Location
NE England
My solution is a trailer. I bought a Carry Freedom Large trailer and built up a box directly into the platform. With a couple of panniers on the bike for delicate things and the rest piled into the box on the trailer I have the capacity for a weeks worth of shopping. Round trip is about 7 miles to the largest Supermarket in the area. As my rides are recumbent trikes, the theft issue is a little less pressing as they are hardly things you can 'sell down the pub', but I do use some serious locks on the trike and trailer outside the Supermarket!
 

swee'pea99

Squire
Trailer would be a luxury for me at this stage, just in case it doesn't work out! That said, I do keep an eye out on gumtree for a used trailer/bargain as it is something I have considered :smile:

Bit of a long-shot, but it might be worth signing up to your local freecycle group and putting out an appeal - it's the kind of thing people buy in a burst of enthusiasm, then find they don't use...or simply get too old for. And then what do you do with the thing? (I'd imagine they're often owned by the kind of people who, in such a situation, would like to see it 'go to a good home'.)
 

Gravity Aided

Legendary Member
Location
Land of Lincoln
I may have to go and get apples on the Peugeot this weekend. The berm around our subdivision has trees, seemingly selected at random, including several apple trees. Nothing like going straight to the source. We are also getting some sort of edible forest at a nearby (3 mi ) park, which is supposed to have many nut and fruit trees so children can be taught to fend for themselves. I may volunteer with the project, just to learn and help out a bit.
 

swee'pea99

Squire
Yer'd need a trailer fer this feller (a 34 st halibut brought into Grimsby last week, and reportedly 'may be 150 years old'):

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Ganymede

Veteran
Location
Rural Kent
I may have to go and get apples on the Peugeot this weekend. The berm around our subdivision has trees, seemingly selected at random, including several apple trees. Nothing like going straight to the source. We are also getting some sort of edible forest at a nearby (3 mi ) park, which is supposed to have many nut and fruit trees so children can be taught to fend for themselves. I may volunteer with the project, just to learn and help out a bit.
Sounds lovely, but re the nuts trees - the squirrels will always get there first I'm afraid.

Mind you, you can always eat the squirrels.
 

Ganymede

Veteran
Location
Rural Kent
I'll stick with the supermarket deli counter!

Can anyone recommend some good/cheap panniers? Has anyone seen these? http://www.halfords.com/cycling/acc...ara-xl-water-resistant-double-pannier-bag-35l
I like the boxy shape - one thing about using a box or basket is that you have structure to protect the squashier items. I would be leery of the words "water-resistant", which essentially mean "not waterproof", but that's only a problem if you're likely to shop in the rain, and of course you can always take a few carrier bags to use as liners.
 
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