Hi, well I have carried some strange things in my time but this is a 1st! If anyone can guess what I am carrying there is a spot prize? Flo K
Commuter diaries – strange luggage
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Chris RideFar 3 hours ago
"we are convinced that normal hookless when everything is well controlled, is better than any hooked type with uncontrolled tolerances" - Yes, I'm sure it works fine in the right circumstances. Now give it to Joe Bloggs consumer who has no idea about tyre compatibility and recommended pressures and you no longer have that "well controlled" situation and serious problems can arise. Even if the initial purchaser does the research to know what is allowable, the person they sell the wheels or bike to in a few years time will probably have no idea. People who work for bike brands need to spend time in real bike shops and observe what setups people bring in and what level of knowledge the typical consumer has.
mdavidford 4 hours ago
Speak for yourself. I say it all the time - like every time I bring the other half a cup of tea or something.
chrisonabike 4 hours ago
Perhaps the poster is not in the UK? The one thing that seems fairly clear is they're not in NL, and probably not in Copenhagen, Malmö, Seville...
chrisonabike 4 hours ago
@wtjs I'd love to be wrong but this current one doesn't seem to have fibre or indeed any ability to stick to decisions, never mind ones which might be immediately and noisily unpopular. (The only exception that immediately comes to mind is something they were forced into - taking some belated action on ex-prince Andrew and Peter Mandelson).
LWaB 4 hours ago
The TX200 had a five speed freewheel in 1976, not a cassette. Big blokes and heavy touring loads were just asking for bent rear axles.
wtjs 6 hours ago
I hope the government displays the correct 'moral fibre' attitude and also piles on the Fuel Price Escalator
wtjs 6 hours ago
I can't leave this 'ER' stuff unchallenged! We do not say ER!!
60somethingcyclist 7 hours ago
I was around in 1973 and remember the impact that the oil crisis and the subsequent oil price hikes had. That was a missed opportunity; this may be the second chance we've been waiting 52 years for. Hasn't come to that yet, but we need to be ready if it does.
mark1a 8 hours ago
[placeholder for obligatory picture meme of Inigo Montoya]
mdavidford 10 hours ago
I think you're going to need to be more specific, because no-one can tell who or what you're responding to.
13 thoughts on “Commuter diaries – strange luggage”
Once carried a chainsaw on
Once carried a chainsaw on the back of a bike… but, that looks more like a mop. :B
chainsaw, impressive. Mop,
chainsaw, impressive. Mop, alas not.
Flo
Sink plunger perhaps?
Sink plunger perhaps?
it’s good but it’s not right
it’s good but it’s not right – Roy Walker
It’s your new broomstick?
I
It’s your new broomstick?
I saw a woman carrying a swivel chair on her Cannondale MTB on the way home. She’d strapped the seat cushion onto the side of the carrier so that the rotating base was sticking out. It looked kind of odd and I did wonder if she’d bashed it off anything on the way.
When I lived in Nigeria I regularly saw people carrying strange things on bicycles. As I sat sinking a beer in a roadside bar, one guy pedalled slowly past with a tree on his head on one occasion. And no, I wasn’t drunk.
We also moved house by bicycle, balancing our kitchen table across my mate’s bike and having placed all our furniture (coffee table, beds and living room chairs, paraffin cooker and all the other smaller bits and pieces) on top of the table. There were four of us supporting the kitchen table and one steering the bicycle handlebars and we moved everything in just three loads.
Good work. Did you do that
Good work. Did you do that move over here or in Nigeria?
Dave Holladay, (one of the unsung heroes of cycling) once told me how he’d moved a wardrobe on a Brompton.
is it a lampshade stand?
is it a lampshade stand?
Is it one of those ‘invisible
Is it one of those ‘invisible dog’ leads?
or is it something long
or is it something long wrapped in a plastic bag?
Clue – I could have ridden it
Clue – I could have ridden it home in a pythonesque manner.
Flo
easy – Pogo Stick!
easy – Pogo Stick!
a 3-speed Holy Grail?
a 3-speed Holy Grail?
close. A Hobby Horse!
Flo K
close. A Hobby Horse!
Flo K