Bike Shopping Baskets
Philip Davis
Posts: 965
Ok, ok, i know asking about shopping baskets on a bike doesn't quite make the mark when everyone is having discussion about ti or steel pimpy frames or... well, you know.
Anyhow, the point: I bought myself a little bike (Swobo Otis) for scooting around the city centre so i wouldn't be putting my more precious road and mtb's at risk of bike thieves, and i now have an unaccountable urge to put a shopping basket on it. Call it an irony thing, or just the recognition that a million housewives can't be wrong - a basket is surely the best way of carrying your milk and frozen pizza home.
But the only baskets I can find in the shops here in Dublin are those that rest on steel racks that hang (with no method of firmly securing them) on the handlebars. When i try them on, they swing rather alarmingly, it seems they are only secure with 2 pints of milk and a 6-pack in them. Or at least without getting to work with a pliers to twist them tightly into place (is this what you are supposed to do?).
Wiggle have a Topeak basket for sale with a fairly secure looking clamp. Is this the best option? I want one I can take off fairly easily so my roadie friends don't laugh at me.
Anyhow, the point: I bought myself a little bike (Swobo Otis) for scooting around the city centre so i wouldn't be putting my more precious road and mtb's at risk of bike thieves, and i now have an unaccountable urge to put a shopping basket on it. Call it an irony thing, or just the recognition that a million housewives can't be wrong - a basket is surely the best way of carrying your milk and frozen pizza home.
But the only baskets I can find in the shops here in Dublin are those that rest on steel racks that hang (with no method of firmly securing them) on the handlebars. When i try them on, they swing rather alarmingly, it seems they are only secure with 2 pints of milk and a 6-pack in them. Or at least without getting to work with a pliers to twist them tightly into place (is this what you are supposed to do?).
Wiggle have a Topeak basket for sale with a fairly secure looking clamp. Is this the best option? I want one I can take off fairly easily so my roadie friends don't laugh at me.
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Don't be ashamed. Get the basket. And, while we're at it, let's have a thread on the bike as HGV.
Stuff like this:
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Or this one:
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. . . which may also soon make an appearance on the rather sad and pervy "Girls in Lycra Shorts" thread in Cake Stop. Look at the number of hits on that thread, gentlemen, and be very ashamed!0 -
Some options,
Try a wicker one which fits with straps (traditional) try David Hembrow for instance:
http://www.hembrow.eu/bicycle.html
Secondly there are some companies which will allow baskets to fit onthe standard "KlickFix" handlebar system:
Alternatively there is an option to use a wire basket with the same fitting.
The Klikfix is stable and easily removable if you wish to carry the basket.
Inquire at your locla LBS or Google "KlickFix Basket"<b><i>He that buys land buys many stones.
He that buys flesh buys many bones.
He that buys eggs buys many shells,
But he that buys good beer buys nothing else.</b></i>
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I have a rear basket on my MTB Commute hack...it's probably one of the best bits of kit I've ever bought, just chuck stuff in it and go... no faffing around packing panniers, saddle-bags or attaching stuff to a rack.
Just use a bungee to thwart any light fingered grab-and go activities.
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