Utility Cycling - How do you get beer?

You could take an Xtracycle, buy ice with your beer. line the Freeloaders with the ice, embed the bottles, pedal away... this is a fine way to get to know your neighbors

Just like you get a pizza . . . get it delivered!

Wald folding baskets. A case stands on end and travels very nicely.

Wald folding baskets. A case stands on end and travels very nicely.
^This is what I use also. If I have a case of 48, then I just put it on my carrier with my folding baskets out, tie it down with a bungee cord.
Then again it takes me only 30 seconds to get to the beer store, as it is only a block away from my house.

I use my rear rack & pannier..it's amazing how much I can carry.. :)

I think the people at the beer store think i'm a DUI since apparently that's what they do when they loose they're drivers licence.. I'd never thought of that until someone told me then one day I saw one that obviously had never used a bike before peddling to the store..dude..I don't look like that, I've get all my equipment in good shape, bike is properly tuned, etc...

I guess when someone sees somebody gettting alcohol on a bike they think they've lost thier licence or something...I couldn't imagine not wanting to ride your bike to the local stores since I get excercise, free transportation and fun! I guess the 'up' side for these people that have lost their license's is that maybe they'll discover the joy of cycling..

Cheers!

Where there's a will, there's a way.

http://www.foxnews.com/images/175932/1_23_083105_looters2.jpg
<rant> Figures, the image came from Faux News and is labeled looters2. What's even better is that when you go up a level to the folder where it came from http://www.foxnews.com/images/175932/ the previous picture is of a Hispanic guy. If a white guy had been caught by them doing the same thing it would have been labeled scavenger2

Personally I like to take my cue from the current administration (for once) and call it "liberating supplies" </rant>

:D

I use my camelpack - the sleeve and it fits 2x750ml Trois pistoles, la fin du mond, don de deui, maudite, etc...

2 x 18 = 36 via panniers :D

A case a week? 6-10 adults...easy. One get together and it's time to hit the beer store again.

ATV trailer with 1000lb capacity. Towed by a low geared (20 rear x 30 front) singlespeed Urban MTB. Custom hitch connect to the seattube. Holds 6 kegs or over 50 flats of beer.


good times.

The only problem I can see with hauling beer, is you have too
wait, a while,to open it,after,all that bouncing around in your
back pack or trailer.Or you will get a beer suds bath.:)

How beer are we talking about eh??? Crumpler Bees Knees holds a 2 4

http://www.crumplerbags.com/index.php

I once had a homemade tandem. The guy in back would hold the handle of one of those two wheel granny grocery carts, and we'd pull it behind us. The cart perfectly held two cases of bottles. I think that's what they're designed for--alcoholic grannies.

One time my friend started swerving the granny cart while we were cruising back from the liquor store, just to see what would happen. What happened was we wrecked, the two of us, tandem, grocery cart and two cases of beer in a bloody heap.

The happy ending: not a bottle broke.

<rant> Figures, the image came from Faux News and is labeled looters2. What's even better is that when you go up a level to the folder where it came from http://www.foxnews.com/images/175932/ the previous picture is of a Hispanic guy. If a white guy had been caught by them doing the same thing it would have been labeled scavenger2

Personally I like to take my cue from the current administration (for once) and call it "liberating supplies" </rant>

:D


Hey, you do know that Looter Guy is famous (http://www.looterguy.com/images/gallery/gallerytwo/index.htm), right?

I have know problem with his resourcefulness.
The beer would have only gone skunky anyway.
:D

This is how my friend Paul did it once.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v88/lancekagar/paul_keg.jpg

^ awesome!

I can wedge 3 sixers of bottles inmy messenger bag.

However, I have been known at times to take TWO messenger bags for those truly epic beer runs.....shove as much beer in them as possible and roll out!

http://www.racingunion.org/Data/binary/transport2.JPG

Bet you could fit a keg in this pretty easy.

Messenger bags have this magical quality to hold almost infinite liquor.

Its like they are some ****ed up bag of holding or something.

have you guys seen these ahearne racks? really nice looking and they even have a bottle opener built in. but the price pretty much kills it....
http://www.ahearnecycles.com/racks.htm

http://www.ahearnecycles.com/galleries/HalfGal/images/racks15_big.jpg

have you guys seen these ahearne racks? really nice looking and they even have a bottle opener built in. but the price pretty much kills it....
http://www.ahearnecycles.com/racks.htm

http://www.ahearnecycles.com/galleries/HalfGal/images/racks15_big.jpg

I wonder if those racks are aluminum. Didn't see it on their site.

I wonder if those racks are aluminum. Didn't see it on their site.
I don't think Joseph Ahearne works in aluminum. That rack is on the site. It's called the "Half Rack".

Just like you get a pizza . . . get it delivered!

Yeah, I have heard of people ordering a cab and asking the dispatcher to have the cabbie go by the "package" store on the way. When the taxi arrived, ofcourse, the customer paid for the booze and the one-way cab fare. :rolleyes:

usually i just throw whatever into my backpack, but i learned last week that exactly EIGHT tall beer cans fit *perfectly* into the rack bag on my 3 speed.

Rack + 2 ratcheting nylon straps + 30 pk PBR = :beer: :)
Also the looks you get when you are strapping down said 30 pack and riding away down the street with it are priceless.

Ah, finally...this is sort of why I didn't want to go panniers but I thought it was a little too image conscience. The looks people give when you have a 12 pack (or more) riding shotgun on your bike are half the fun. The other half is drinking the beer.

So a rack and straps is sufficient for 12ers? Also, since people are mentioning it, I prefer Geary's Hampshire Special Ale brewed right in my backyard. Well, not literal backyard...

- Kyle

[QUOTE=JayD;5070581]have you guys seen these ahearne racks? really nice looking and they even have a bottle opener built in. but the price pretty much kills it....


$275 for a rear rack?? Ouch.

[QUOTE=JayD;5070581]have you guys seen these ahearne racks? really nice looking and they even have a bottle opener built in. but the price pretty much kills it....


$275 for a rear rack?? Ouch.

Gack. That would increase the value of my bike by 550% in one fell swoop!

Then again, a case of beer would damn nearly double it anyway...

i just tossed a case in my messenger bag this afternoon (plus a bottle of vodka). Much more than a case gets difficult with the weight though. I've managed to avoid racks up until now (I'm car free, but in a metro area) and I'd like to keep it that way.

A full keg is short work for a bakfiets. I delivered same, along with my 5-year-old son and a couple large pumpkins several miles recently. Since it was downhill it was more a braking challenge than an athletic one. Our event was ill-publicized so I ended up hauling the half-full-keg back up the hill. I took a couple swigs from the tap on the way.

For household use I haul beer any which way, often in the capacious touring bag of a Brompton folding bike -- holds 6 longneck 6-packs plus 2 bottles of wine. For short hops I sometimes use a string mesh bag that fits in my pocket as a backpack; it holds plenty but but digs into one's shoulders punishingly after more than a couple miles.

I've hauled 100 lbs of barley malt plus fresh yeast and hops et al for homebrewing purposes on an Xtracycle many times, too. I no longer have time to brew our own.

This can carry a lot of beer...

http://members.shaw.ca/feynn/biking/trailer.jpg

Back when I first moved to California from NYC...I had a bike.. no car. A 12 pack of Lucky Lager...(nice flat box) fit perfectly on the rear rack with a spring holder and a couple of bungee cords

A 12 pk & a bag of potato chips fit right nicely in a camelbak blowfish.

I just don't "get" beer. Everyone says it's an acquired taste. I suppose one could "acquire" a taste for dog poop too if they wanted too. :rolleyes:

I just don't "get" beer. Everyone says it's an acquired taste. I suppose one could "acquire" a taste for dog poop too if they wanted too. :rolleyes:

Boo!

More for the rest of us!

Beer, I mean. Not poo. Bleah!