Originally Posted by
DavidW56
My kids have held the local bi-weekly paper route on our street for 15 years, delivering to about 40 customers by wagon. I tried to deliver a few myself from my bike, with a newspaper bag around my neck -- I thought it was very dangerous. Forty papers in a pannier -- I don't know about that -- each Sunday paper with ads weighs about a pound -- that's forty pounds. I can't imagine trying to haul two hundred on a bike.
I had eighty customers and I used a Team Murray bmx bike with red Lester steel mags and a huge Wald front basket. Sundays I made two trips from the 7/11. My route was daily, also starting at 0500 in the morning.