Originally Posted by sweetharriet
...Can't find any input on BASKETS. Sure, I have a spare rack and fenders for my beater bike, but anyone know of a hard-core front handlebar basket? By hardcore, I mean heavy enough to take a laptop bag thrown in there for a short pedal down to the metro...I had a bike in Germany with a front basket which sometimes bent under heavy loads. Panniers seem to take a lot of packing and unpacking, I liked having the basket to carry groceries or a backpack...
Go to your LBS and ask for the big Wald basket.
http://store.nycewheels.com/basket-delivery.html. I have the regular size on my cruiser but when I was visiting the LA garment district at lunchtime, I noticed that there were a bunch of bikes with these big, heavy duty baskets delivering lunches.