These are brilliant, thank you so much. I needed inspiration for the new bike, which will have a rack but no basket. The plan is for my Marin to be the main grocery getter but I know that the Vita will get used too on occasion.

I normally have water bottle and pump attached to the frame on both bikes. There is a small saddle bag on my mountain bike that takes mini-toolset, phone, garmin, tissue or babywipe, emergency tenner, asthma inhaler and door keys. On the Marin, everything tends to go in the basket, though now I can use the rack more smartly - love the idea of weaving the lock through the rack and of bungee-ing a backpack to the rack. Of course, if I'm pulling the trailer I run out of power before I run out of space.