I got lucky this weekend! I had dropped off my SO's Schwinn beach cruiser to have the shifter installed last weekend and saw that the LBS had some kind of "scrap room" going on. In there, I spotted what looked like a basket, but I was distracted and didn't get a good look. So this weekend when I picked it up with her, I asked about it. Turns out it is one of the deep WALD front baskets! Owner wanted $10 for it - SOLD. So I hooked it up to her bike and fiddled around with it until we could get running. Didn't have proper hardware to attach it to the handlebars so we used a rope that was woven into the bottom of the basket to tie it in place for the trip home.

Evidently installing it misaligned the wheel and I spent like half an hour messing with that and the brakes before we could get rolling. Don't wrench enough to stay in good practice, unfortunately. Certainly not a performance bike for sure, anyways.

One observation I have is that this basket is heavy. I'm far from a "weight weenie", but this puts considerable weight on the front of the bike even when unloaded. Not insurmountable, but it changes the handling enough that I'm not sure it would be a good selection on a "light roadster" or "mixte" type of frame - it makes good steerage a bit difficult. However, since we have it now, once I'm able to order my utility bike I'll give it a whirl. Just needs a bit of polish, but I got it for quite the discount so I can't complain. I'll be getting a steering stabalizer anyways, so that might compensate for it.

M.