Utility Cycling - Let's see your "grocery run" pics!

TSL: like your style! Those Nashbars look nifty. I've got that Arkel too - still learning what it can do.

Here's mine.
http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=75230&d=1215038879

This is awesome! who makes it?

Ok, it's my turn. I took back a bunch of bottles and cans today. Turned out to be $11 worth. I gotta love the michigan 10 cent deposit and stupid lazy people. More than half of them I found on the side of the road over the last 2 weeks.

I ended up buying butter, tiramisu coffee mate, and 25lbs of sugar.

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Some truly awesome and inspiring pics in here.

A somewhat better diet than BMC's ;)

I'll gladly compare body fat percentages with anyone on here! :p

That in no way represents my normal diet... it was just one particular run that I happened to grab pictures of (Mainly because of the number of people that have said they can't be car free because they have dogs and can't carry dog food on a bike!)

Just the essentials.
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I'm stunned that only one person posting pics here is using reuseable grocery bags (http://www.onebagatatime.com). I *love* mine!

I'm stunned that only one person posting pics here is using reuseable grocery bags (http://www.onebagatatime.com). I *love* mine!

I love them!! :love: mine cost me $1 each and have already paid for themselves. The store credits me 5 cents per bag I bring in to use. Next time I go I'm going to buy some more.

I'm stunned that only one person posting pics here is using reuseable grocery bags (http://www.onebagatatime.com). I *love* mine!

Funny, I thought ALL grocery bags were reusable ... not just the pretty ones you have to pay for.

I used to get the paper shopping bags and when I would go to the grocery store and put them on the check out line ahead of my groceries ... about 75% of the time they would ask me if I wanted them to through the bags away for me. I'd say yeah ... I carried the bags all the way to the grocery store to through them away ...

I would write the date on the bag when I got it and see how long they would last. Doubled up ... I could get almost a year's worth of usage.

Trip to the Dollar Store today, picked up a few needed misc items. Roughly 4mi round trip.

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Please excuse the poor pics, it isn't the cameras fault, but rather the photographer. :rolleyes:

Juggler2, what kind of rack/baskets are you using in those pics? :thumb:

Juggler2, what kind of rack/baskets are you using in those pics? :thumb:

Those are the large Wald baskets. Sorry I don't have the model number handy. I used corroplast in the bottom of the baskets, and on the "top of the rack" portion. I found some rubber "diamond plate" design step material at some hardware store. And put this on over the top. I've found that the rubber helps "grab" whatever I may have strapped to the top.

Corroplast (sp?) is a plastic material shaped similar to cardboard box material, very strong, lightweight and readily available. One common use is for the political sign's you see displayed in yards. There is a local sign maker that will sell it in 4x8' sheets. I bought it to use as wing material in a R.C. airplane.

Boxes/totes are vastly superior to grocery bags. Back around 1980 when everyone was cost-cutting, they were really common at the big discount grocery stores like Cub Foods and Red Owl. Never understood why they went away. I always bring a box for my groceries, fight off the fricken bagger kids and load the box myself, and life is so much easier.

Those are the large Wald baskets. Sorry I don't have the model number handy. I used corroplast in the bottom of the baskets, and on the "top of the rack" portion. I found some rubber "diamond plate" design step material at some hardware store. And put this on over the top. I've found that the rubber helps "grab" whatever I may have strapped to the top.

Corroplast (sp?) is a plastic material shaped similar to cardboard box material, very strong, lightweight and readily available. One common use is for the political sign's you see displayed in yards. There is a local sign maker that will sell it in 4x8' sheets. I bought it to use as wing material in a R.C. airplane.

Ah, you must have the Wald 535 (http://www.waldsports.com/index.cfm/wald570-520-535rearcarriers.html). I like it and it looks pretty unique with the tweaks you made. :)

I 2 of the reuseable bags for garden use only and try to use the at the store too I brought the two bags from the garden full this morning, green beans corn, summer squash and spagetti squash, but could not carry every thing so I had to take the home made trailer after the rest.:D
This is about 2/3's of the spagetti squash from 5 hills there is one butternut on the top too
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I'm stunned that only one person posting pics here is using reuseable grocery bags (http://www.onebagatatime.com). I *love* mine!

My pics are from before those started showing up in the stores around here... I use them all the time, now. :)

They're great... I even use them for storing stuff from my last move... they fill nicely and stack great, and have handles to move stuff with! :D

Funny, I thought ALL grocery bags were reusable ... not just the pretty ones you have to pay for.

I used to get the paper shopping bags and when I would go to the grocery store and put them on the check out line ahead of my groceries ... about 75% of the time they would ask me if I wanted them to through the bags away for me. I'd say yeah ... I carried the bags all the way to the grocery store to through them away ...

I would write the date on the bag when I got it and see how long they would last. Doubled up ... I could get almost a year's worth of usage.

I keep a stash of the plastic grocery bags tucked in my saddle rails. I never know what I'm going to find on my rides and they are great to put over the saddle if you get surprised by rain.

I'm stunned that only one person posting pics here is using reuseable grocery bags (http://www.onebagatatime.com). I *love* mine!

Actually, quite a few pictures in this thread show them.

I use GreenBags, I'm especially fond of the little ones I have that fold up into a pocket. I have lots of canvas totes, as well, but they are bulkier when empty than some of the new recycled fabric bags.

Hi, all:

This is my first post here but I have been riding bike for a long time.

I was inspired by many excellent ideals of building trailer so I used all scrap materials and made a small wagon for my Bichon Frise. Here it is

http://webpages.charter.net/bolou/images/Bo_Jaz_22.jpg

That's about as adorable as it gets, right? :D

StokerPoker,
Is that a kit that you used to recycle an old grocery cart into a bike cart? If not did you fabrecate it yourself? Looks neat!
Thanks,
Tony

The cart is an old Gordon Food Service cart that I pulled from a dumpster. I cut the bottom half off with a sawzall. The axel, tongue and hitch were from a two child trailer my brother pulled from the trash. The donor trailer was plastic and cracked in many places.

The axel is about 5/8'' square so I just made some brackets out of some flat pieces of steel and used some bolts to mount it to the cart. the same goes for the tongue. I've got the axel mounted at the center of gravity making it very stable and an absolute joy to pull.

So far I've had only one problem with it and it's not a result of my design or engineering. I love the mag wheels, but I need to find some spoked wheels with hooked beads. If I load it with much more than 150 pounds the tires try to come off of the rims.

This is awesome! who makes it?
http://worksmancycles.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/movers.html

The one pictured is a Worksman Mover Industrial Tricycle M2020-CB

It's rather old but man is it strong! The spokes are 11 gauge. That's only slightly thinner than
what you find in motorcycles.

this morning's run. New paint job, white wall tires and flag on the trailer
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Nice picture! Looks like it is just "The Thing" for grocery trips...;)

We used to have a delivery customer who would sometimes make some really big grocery orders that we'd deliver to her. Here's a load of 10 bags of groceries plus 15 paper towels and 70 4-packs of toilet paper (sorry for the poor-quality pic):


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Now I can be a car-free drummer!

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this morning's run. New paint job, white wall tires and flag on the trailer
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Now that's what I'm talkin about! :)

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These are from before I got some big blue ikea bags to clean up the baggage area.
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I was thinking the same thing…

Okay, here's mine. Mind you, I'm single and have no kids or pets. So my hauling needs are easily met. I shop on the way home from work on Thursdays, and make one or two additional runs a month.

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I like my Tubus "New" Cosmo rack. It has a second set of side rials so I can mount both my Arkel Tailrider trunk bag with my commuting stuff, and…


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My Nashbar Townie Basket grocery panniers. Yes, you can mount both simultaneously on a an ordinary rack, but this saves all the cussing and fussing.


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Man I gotta get me a set of those. As is I use anybike; carry a large backpack with a cloth bag in it. I try to only fill my backpack, if I get too much I can put it in the cloth bag and hang it on my neck or something. For living alone this requires going to the grocery twice week.

How much time does it take to add and remove these things?

How much time does it take to add and remove these things?

I can't speak on the Arkel Tailrider (best guess is it takes about a minute to latch on or take off), but the grocery bag Panniers just clip on and off, I can take mine off in about 3 seconds, 7-8 seconds to put on again and check for a secure connection. The beauty is that the grocery panniers fold up against the side of the bike when not in use, so I just leave mine on that way if I need to stop at the store on the way home, or carry something large from work I can just throw it in there...

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Here's the flatbed in action. Not exactly a "grocery run" but yet another no-car purchase. Ironic that the purchase was a gas-powered mower, eh?

Here are the last three runs we made, two to CostCo (a 7 mile round trip... uphill both ways;)), one to the grocery and liquor store (a mere 10 blocks).

The first pic is last week's trip: in our Burley - a case of Moosedrool, 1.5 gal milk, .5 gal cream, salmon; on the floor - 1 gal olive oil, uncooked tortillas, blueberries, blackberries, two kids we picked up at random ;) Notice the self-righteous sign on the Burley.

The second pic is the Costco cart from today's run, the third is everything packed into our handmedown InStep trailer.

The fourth is part of our preparations for a party this weekend (mojitos are a must!). Dang those Wald folding baskets (http://www.waldsports.com/index.cfm/wald582rearfoldingbasket.html) are handy for spontaneous grocery runs!

The fifth is the broken Burley hitch that resulted from my bike falling over twice then being loaded with the trailer as seen in picture 3. Is that why you're supposed to load the weight evenly over the trailer's wheels and NOT entirely on the hitch... the way the InStep is designed!? Possibly from bad karma associated with self-righteousness of picture 1.

Picture six is the "new" flatbed trailer I put together this evening that we will be using to haul groceries in from now on. Notice evil, wheelless InStep trailer next to the flatbed that is using donated wheels and hitch. In case you're wondering, I jury-rigged the InStep to fit the Burley with part of a metal mop handle and a cork (for internal support). The mop handle fits perfectly into the Burley hitch and inside the metal tubing of the InStep hitch arm almost as if it were designed with ME in mind!

Cheers,

David

I HEART the Gas Sucks sign:) I'm also itching to make a Costco Run too on my bike

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Any chance to flaunt this bike.... :)

$140 worth of groceries and personal hygiene goods in 4 Nashbar ATB panniers and on top of the rack. There is a 20lb bag of dog food under the beer, pizza and bread/chips. This was the night after I finished building this behemoth. :)

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This isn't real impressive, but I have 2 gallons of tea on the side, a jar of mayo, work clothes and the little keg of Heineken which seems the bag was made for.

Ok, nevermind I can't add the picture anyhow, not sure how to do that.

Six beers. toothpaste, cat food, one red onion, one jalapeno pepper, three granny smith apples, broccoli, carrots, toilet paper, dark chocolate, whole bean coffee.
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First groceries on the new trailer

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