How to transport flowers on a bike?

medoramas

Yeah, Mrs B'day tomorrow.

Do you know any methods of transporting mid/large bouquet for about 10 miles, so it still looks reasonably nice?

I've got a rack and medium pannier. Don't know, maybe some tube made of cardboard? Have you got any experience with such an extreme scenario?

SimonAH

Yup, 'twas my anniversary on the 15th and I was struck with the same issue. Only answer is to ride one-handed with the bouquet in the crook of your left arm.

....and smile at all the ladies you pass.....

mybreakfastconsisted

I do this regularly, I stick the flowers in the rear pannier and get wide overtakes.

roger_merriman

paniers and take it nice and easy seems to work fine, going though Bushy park holding them and smilling at ladies also works!

kelsen

Or a local graveyard near you

cee

Surely a nice wicker handlebar mounted basket is de rigueur for transporting flowers on a bicycle!

veronese68

I tend to hold them upside down in my left hand and only use the right shifter. Smiling at ladies of course, lots of smiles back if carrying flowers. Without flowers they just threaten to have me arrested.

Kieran_Burns

Grasped firmly between the teeth, riding with cape and hat firmly in place.

sketchley

phone local florist, explain problem, get them to be waiting 100yards down the road with the biggest bunch of flowers they can come up with. Pick them up then free wheel the 100 yards and let the wife wonder in awe how you did it......

vorsprung

I have done this a couple of times, the flowers stick out of the side of the Super C

Origamist

For normal bunches I don't bother with any extra protection - just pop them in an open pannier. But when I have transported orchids in a pannier I used a dog e-collar (one of those cones to stop pets scratching themselves) over the flower heads and medium-thick card-board around the pot and stem.

Gussio

Buy her chocolates.

chilling

Surely you have to go all Morrisey on this one.

joelsim

Surely a cardboard tube inside your backpack with the flowers out of the top?

DrLex

Zip-tied to front fork (blooms upwards, natch).

CiB

Zip tie one each to as many spokes as you have; arrive in a graceful sideways broadslide across the living room carpet stopping inches from her [now open] mouth and kiss her. She'll love you tons for it, and never ever forget the moment.

wellermj

I put the cans over the centre bar..

rolf_f

I stuff them heads down in my rucksack. Under the shopping

walkingbootweather

Gussio

:shock: :shock: :shock:

medoramas

walkingbootweather wrote:

I wonder what clue words did you have to use to google that image...

sfichele

Last time I carried flowers (crap I hate doing that) I attached to my rucksack

rolf_f

medoramas wrote:

I wonder what clue words did you have to use to google that image...

Maybe he didn't google it

walkingbootweather

Rolf F wrote:

medoramas wrote:

I wonder what clue words did you have to use to google that image...

Maybe he didn't google it

No, just got Mrs WBW to pose. Do you like our wallpaper? For some reason she wasn't keen to use roses. :shock:

Andrew N

Stuff them in your hair

Ginjafro

Stick the bike on a roof rack and the flowers in the car, simples.