How can I carry a pizza on my bike?
05-04-06, 04:22 PM
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How can I carry a pizza on my bike?
I want to get a large pizza tonight, but I don't want to pay for delivery as the pizza place is only about 15 minutes from my house. I figure I could pick it up faster than it would take the driver to deliver it and I could save the tip that I was going to give him/her. I have a rack and bungee cords, how do I hook everything up, I don't want the pizza falling off o nhte way home.
05-04-06, 04:25 PM
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Strap it to your helmet? 
05-04-06, 04:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Bikepacker67
I'd say the easiest way to carry it would be in your stomach.
05-04-06, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Crazy Cyclist
If I ate a large pizza before riding I wouldn't be able to get home
05-04-06, 04:55 PM
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While riding along a major bicycle path in Cape Cod, A pizza delivery boy passed me by. He was riding like crazy and he was holding the pizza he was delivering in front of him. The tricky part of it was that he held it in his arms and not even his hands were touching the handlebars. How he did it I don't know.
I don't recommend that you try this.
I don't recommend that you try this.
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Originally Posted by nodnerb
Right on!!! I'm from winnipeg too. Where are you ordering from and what time do I come over? 
05-04-06, 04:58 PM
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Lay the box on your rack with a corner at your seat post the opposite corner straight back. Put the hook on one end of a bungee down through the cardboard top at the edge just where you can see the front of the rack emerge from under the box. Wrap down and around and around and when tight the other end goes through the lid in the other side of the box. A second bungee hooks to the back of the rack under the box, up and over the trailing corner and back down to the back of the rack.
05-04-06, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Crazy Cyclist
I wa thinking maybe Dominos or little ceasers 
Jumbo pizza has free delivery city wide and really good prices. They have really good specialty pizzas. THe "baker's pride" is awesome if you like something with a little spice.
05-04-06, 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Crazy Cyclist
I wa thinking maybe Dominos or little ceasers. nodnerb, where about's in winnipeg are you from?
05-04-06, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by powerhouse
While riding along a major bicycle path in Cape Cod, A pizza delivery boy passed me by. He was riding like crazy and he was holding the pizza he was delivering in front of him. The tricky part of it was that he held it in his arms and not even his hands were touching the handlebars. How he did it I don't know.
I don't recommend that you try this.
I don't recommend that you try this.
I once carried 2 pillows and a quilt about a half mile on my bike. Almost bit it when I hit a pothole, but managed to get an elbow on the bars and swing the wheel forward again.
although, if I had fallen, I had plenty of padding!
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05-04-06, 06:34 PM
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Cheapskate!!
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05-04-06, 06:43 PM
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Take a backpack and a few ziploc baggies. No mess and the pizza stays hot.
05-04-06, 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by nodnerb
I am in Elmwood. Near Springfield Rd and Henderson. You? What kind of riding you do?
05-04-06, 09:35 PM
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One large pizza? No problem. Throw in a six pack, and things get a little more difficult!
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05-04-06, 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Crazy Cyclist
I live near the Kildonan PArk golf course. About 10 minutes from where you live. I usually ride on pavemnet. I have a MTB with slick tires and a rack.
Good job for riding at all in this windy cold weather.
05-04-06, 10:46 PM
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If I can carry a large suitcase on my rear rack (bought a luggage set at target, took it home on my bike), you can carry a pizza.
edit: cross the straps, 4 straps, one + pattern, one X pattern. It won't move, period. I do this whenever I buy something large or heavy. I've transported large frozen turkeys, floorstanding stereo speakers, PA amplifiers, etc like this. Just use more straps than 4 for the heavy stuff....and don't overload your rack.
edit: cross the straps, 4 straps, one + pattern, one X pattern. It won't move, period. I do this whenever I buy something large or heavy. I've transported large frozen turkeys, floorstanding stereo speakers, PA amplifiers, etc like this. Just use more straps than 4 for the heavy stuff....and don't overload your rack.
05-04-06, 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by WorldWind
Lay the box on your rack with a corner at your seat post the opposite corner straight back. Put the hook on one end of a bungee down through the cardboard top at the edge just where you can see the front of the rack emerge from under the box. Wrap down and around and around and when tight the other end goes through the lid in the other side of the box. A second bungee hooks to the back of the rack under the box, up and over the trailing corner and back down to the back of the rack.
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I do it all the time. I did it tonight. Rode half a mile through residential with an 18 incher on my beater mtb with no hands on the bars. I do it like a server at a diner would do. One hand in the center of the bottom of the pizza box.
I however have an amazing sense of balance and can ride for miles even taking turns without hands. I have actually thought of making some kind of plastic carrier box for the rear of the bike lined with a material like a pizza delivery guy uses. !8 inches of pizza, or could carry 4 to go containers.
Maybe i'll do a vid tomorrow of how to do it
I however have an amazing sense of balance and can ride for miles even taking turns without hands. I have actually thought of making some kind of plastic carrier box for the rear of the bike lined with a material like a pizza delivery guy uses. !8 inches of pizza, or could carry 4 to go containers.
Maybe i'll do a vid tomorrow of how to do it
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Originally Posted by Crazy Cyclist
I wa thinking maybe Dominos ...
05-05-06, 07:51 AM
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Originally Posted by lrzipris
I was going to make a comment about not patronizing Dominos because I don't want to subsidize the founder's extreme right-wing, ultra-religious views, but I decided not to.