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- Location
- Cambridge UK
Who does their shopping on a bike?
- Thread starter confusedcyclist
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raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Beat me to it Reg.
Zagek
Senior Member
- Location
- Scunthorpe
Damn that looks lovely.
So do I
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
I went to Homebase today on the bike to get some cable ties, took me 25 miles to get there and back 
Extended shopping trips are better than extended commutes.
Extended shopping trips are better than extended commutes.
Salty seadog
Space Cadet...(3rd Class...)
But Homebase is only 2 miles away......oh wait, you don't live with me.....in which case who's eating all my cheese?
Oh, me.
Oh, me.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
By coincidence, Lidl were selling packs of self-adhesive Velcro strips today (for less than £2) so I bought a pack and stuck some strips to the panniers.The Lidl panniers were stupidly cheap so I have very low expectations of them, but I would still rather avoid catastrophic failure!
They have flaps on the top which can be used together to form a carrying handle. The flaps are wide enough to get more than halfway across the top of the rack. If I wanted to I could devise a way to attach the inside flaps of the 2 panniers to each other. They have some lightweight Velcro strips on them. Maybe I will replace those with heavy-duty strips and then I could Velcro them together ...?
Here is a picture of the panniers Velcroed together with the top flap on the far pannier lifted up to show you some of the pads. I can interleave the flaps so all 4 are attached together into a stack.
It makes the panniers much more stable on the rack and they are easy to get on and off.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I would go by the house in the background.
I once had my saddle 'levelled' for me by German ex-pro Marcel Wüst. Unfortunately, he did by lining it up with the top of a fence which was not itself horizontal!
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
Depends where i'm shopping. I live pretty much in town so it's only a few minutes walk to the shops. But if I'm going to Aldi or Asda, it's the bike with a couple of panniers, and i have a habit of buying two items more than they'll fit.
- Location
- London
ah, what do you do then - only miscalculated once - had to return something big for a refund.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
One bike has a basket, plus I always have a collapsing rucksack in my usual satchel.
