Errand bike thread....

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I feel left out!- I work at home so I have no commute to talk about!

But I love using my bike for practical trips, and am fixing up my second bike as a grocery/errand bike, should get it finished setting up this weekend.

Since errand and shopping bikes don't seem to fit in any other forum here...would it be ok for me to keep a "working bike" errand/grocery trips thread going in the commuter bike section here? I'm happy to delete this though if anyone thinks it should go somewhere else....

[malkin]

I'm all for it!

[pardes]

I LOVE the idea!

Saturday night I had the bike so loaded down with groceries that I could barely pedal over 3 miles an hour! I've never loaded it that heavy before and never will again!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Did you have to go up any hills with it loaded like that, or was the 3mph on level ground?

[pardes]

Believe it or not that was on LEVEL ground. I computed it out later and I had well over 75 pounds of stuff stuffed in the panniers and an additional bag all on the back rack. The Trek complained bitterly. We creaked slowly to the bus stop and then I had to hitch the bags onto the bus with me and then back off the bus and back onto the bike in the dark. Never again. I am promising the Trek that I will shop more often OR use the workhorse winter bike next time.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Now that is just sick.

If you had my hill on the way home though you'd never get away with that load.

I always wonder why couldn't I live at the BOTTOM of the hill. My steep little last hill is always the last thing on my bike rides, taunting me at the end when I'm tired. When I walk to town and have a big breakfast, I have to haul my belly full of French toast up that hill. Now that I'm going to try to buy groceries with my bike, it'll taunt me again....like why couldn't I go up the hill on the way TO the store, with my empty panniers?....and then zoom down the hill home with my goods loaded up?

Well it'll build more leg muscles, I guess.