grocery bikes

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Lisa,
I'm at the office so I can't remember off the top of my head, the reflective strips on the back, bottom of those Novarra Panniers, did you add those or were they there already?

I can't remember if mine have those!


BTW, I just finished ordering a vintage errand bike from ebay. More news later.

The reflective strips are on them already, but only on the one end, so you need to mount the panniers so the reflector strips face the back of the bike. You can easily overlook them and mount them the other way with no difference except the reflectors will face front instead.

I look forward to hearing/seeing all about your new/old errand bike- be sure to post details and pictures about it in the errand bike thread!

[SouthernBelle]

Will do!

[Grog]

Very good job, Lisa, it's impressive!

And what a pretty bike.

[wackyjacky1]

2 questions:
What is the black thing on the right side of the handlebar stem? A bell?
How come you got rid of the bar-end shifters?

I really like those panniers. Might have to treat my bike to a set of them.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Thanks Grog!

2 questions:
What is the black thing on the right side of the handlebar stem? A bell?
How come you got rid of the bar-end shifters?
I really like those panniers. Might have to treat my bike to a set of them.

The black thing is a bell....the old fashioned "ching-ching!" kind.
I got rid of the bell on my long rides road bike, but now going through town and to the stores on this errand bike, I find I have to deal a lot more frequently with pedestrians crossing the street without looking, etc....so the bell is back on this bike.

Earlier in this thread I explained why I changed from the bar end shifters- there were a couple of reasons that I elaborated on.

REI.com seems to be out of these panniers now....but apparently they get new versions of stuff for the new year so hopefully they will have new improved ones soon...

[wackyjacky1]

Earlier in this thread I explained why I changed from the bar end shifters- there were a couple of reasons that I elaborated on.

LOL, I had been following this thread fairly closely but somehow managed to miss that part of your post. D'oh!