2015 Bikes

Is there a Carradice that could securely hold eg. spanner+pump+tube, an old Dell laptop, an A4 pad, a pair of shoes, a shirt and a jumper? Or 2 litres of milk, a bunch of bananas and a bottle of wine? (meant as a serious question - I've no experience of them). For me, one pannier is almost always big enough and always secure enough for carrying the sort of stuff that I carry around town, to work, from the shops etc. But I wouldn't want to put any serious weight on just one side of the fork, I don't think.

The weaving in and out of traffic thing I don't really get. Panniers are never going to be wider than your shoulders are they? And if you're cutting through gaps that fine then you're more reliant than I'd like to be on drivers (or yourself) never swerving, losing sight of you for a second, not paying attention etc.

Nelson long flap.

Won't take a 15" laptop but who's crazy enough to have one of those?

work laptops (at my place anyway - a small charity) are not the same nice svelte modern things that personal laptops are :(

The weaving in and out of traffic thing I don't really get. Panniers are never going to be wider than your shoulders are they? And if you're cutting through gaps that fine then you're more reliant than I'd like to be on drivers (or yourself) never swerving, losing sight of you for a second, not paying attention etc.

The panniers is further forward from the handlebar and are a lots lower to the ground than the rear.

I don't take tight gap through traffic, but gap I was otherwise fine to take, felt a little too tight with the extra width of the panniers leaving less error room.

The ability to get out of the saddle to sprint...

#promute
#cat5

Yeah I guess that makes sense Ed. I was directing that comment more at Dammit - who I think was saying that he found a rear pannier made it hard to get through tight gaps. As a rearpannierer myself, I wouldn't personally dream of going through any gaps where the width of the pannier might be a problem - even if I didn't have the pannier.

^^ But yeah also this!

The other thing about the shoulder width remark, is that they're a lots higher than where the panniers sit, usually above the roof of a cars, whether the height of the panniers is a little under the door handle (rear), or even wheel arch (front), so I don't think the shoulder argument is valid.

Give them their brick back and use your own svelte laptop.

Yeah I guess that makes sense Ed. I was directing that comment more at Dammit - who I think was saying that he found a rear pannier made it hard to get through tight gaps. As a rearpannierer myself, I wouldn't personally dream of going through any gaps where the width of the pannier might be a problem - even if I didn't have the pannier.

It's not so much that I find it hard to get through gaps, just that I'd prefer to have it in front of me - once I can see it's through a gap then I (assumption!) would know that the widest part of the bike is through so the rest should be fine.

Pannier as cats whiskers, as it were.

And I just thought it would be fun/cool/aesthetically pleasing - delete as suits your tastes.

Sure you don't want to borrow my 650B wheelset?

Pannier as cats whiskers, as it were.

I wonder why cats need whiskers when other animals don't. Are their eyes no good?

Actually it seems some don't have them.

Front racks definitely look cooler :)

Give them their brick back and use your own svelte laptop.

Sadly I also have to share my work laptop with colleagues so no can do

I wonder why cats need whiskers when other animals don't. Are there eyes no good?

They hunt in low light and confined spaces?

Unlike (for instance) a cow?

ffs.

My GF's hamster also has whiskers.

Unlike (for instance) a cow?

Great, now I have a visual of a cow rummaging around the sitting room trying to find an elusive mouse.

That is the filthiest euph I have ever seen on the forum

Says what you like, it'll never be as bad as @Miss_Mouse's potty mouth.

Amazing how much thought everyone puts into bikes for commuting - never ridden for more than 7 miles.

2015 - the year the hybrid returns.

Boom! On the money again.

Is a prommuter is those whose route is less or more than 7 miles each way?

^^ My commute is on average 100 miles per week, with a couple of after-work excursions such as laps of Regents or heading over to Richmond Park that could easily be 140 miles.

I'd quite like to have put some thought into the bike I'm using for that.

^^ Deep Ed.

What are you on about?

It was that or the Raleigh Lizard.