Maybe something like this (scroll down to the rib rider at the bottom of the page)? There's also a local pizza shop that delivers pizza with a similar get up.

I did pizza deliveries on a bike in downtown Houston at night. Went the opposite way than you naturally, drinks in the bag and pizzas on the handlebars. Course pizzas in a mess bag woulda been..a mess. The shop was kinda cool, very downtown centric, wouldn't deliver outside of bike range

With sandwiches, I guess you could buy a couple of plastic boxes and throw them in your mess bag. The kind people put their foods in in the fridge. That'd stop them being crushed and make funny noises as you ride along.

BTW, are you paying for gas yourself, or is the company? If it's your money, you'll save an awful lot.

I work at Jimmy Johns too. We do all our delivery on bikes at this store. About a 4mile radius on the delivery area. I wouldn't call boulder a city, but its not really a suburb either, so a car 'might' be faster for some of the further deliveries.

As far as drinks go, I just tape the lids on, and put them inside two of the paper bags, then hold the bags with one hand while you ride. Maybe not the most effective method, but it works, and I can carry up to 6 larges or so, they just get heavy.

Oh that sort of drinks, yeah those suck to carry on a bike, I can carry 6-7 large coffes one handed on a fixed gear, it's awfully slowgoing but I've never spilled. The pizza shop I worked for said to hell with that, only sold canned drinks for delivery, kept me faster.

yeah when I was doing food delivery I would have a quickrelase rear rack with a fairly large milk crate zip tied and bolted down to it in the back Id bungee down the food and I had watter bottle cages zip tied to the side of it, it worked astonishingly well but the bungeeing of the food is key.

wes

My wife has a car which measures average speed. We live out of town, about 10miles from the city center. Her car shows an average of 33-37km/h (google will convert it for you), consisting mostly of going to the city for work and giving the kids a lift to school. I have no problem averaging about the same (30-33km/h) doing my commute on my fixed gear.

Lemme, guess, Frank's? I usually make that my halfway stop when I'm riding out at night. OMT isn't there anymore. I'd love to deliver for my local pizza joint, NY Pizzeria, but I dunno...I like my nights.

props

How often do you see a bike rack outside of a church? I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin.

It's mostly downhill (both ways )

You cheater!!!

Yah it was Franks, great lil joint. I did the Fri/Sat night thing for them solo, usually til 3-4AM. Get a bit bedraggled after working the road all day Fri just to put another 10hrs in, but after resting Sat was always fun. Good$$ too, I almost hit $400 take home one saturday and it was never less than $200 a night.

Hey Donut, a few questions and a couple of suggestions...

I work just down the street from you at Plaid. If you are looking for basket/rack possibilities, head over to Buchannan bikes, Those guys are great and the wrenches are top notch. Pick Dwayne's brain and he can probably help you work something out for a drink holder. He loves fabricating and coming up with solutions to oddball situations. Then again you mentioned a race rig... so you probably already know about those guys. I think I have an old weinmann sidepull if you need a brake, but no levers atm though.

If you don't have to cross '35, a bike is probably as fast as a car in Norman. I've been here a long time and ride almost everywhere. If it's just campus and downtown, maybe out as far as Griffin, I'd ride it! If you're doing Hall Park or such, then you do need the car.

For the questions, are you looking for a mellow mountain ride? There is a group of about 10-15 of us doing "Flow Ride" on monday nights. We head up to Draper after the bike shop closes, ride til the sun goes down. Starts out slow, last loop is usually a little faster but fair warning is given to the tail draggers if they want to head back to the lot early. Usually some good brews and company after we're done.

Also, have you heard about the "**** Tour"? The next one is this Sunday up in the Village. Single speed/fixed madness! Bike Sumo, skid contests, copious beers, mass start sprints and other hijinks. Yell if you want details on either.

Me and Buchanan's are tight. I spend probably 10% of my income there, it's like a tithe. I might go ask them if they can set me up, I bet they could.

We cover all the way out to hall park, but I don't think into hall park (though we probably would if they called), and then west to the highway. I think. We don't go any further south than lindsey, that's the other store. I'm thinking of building up a completely new bike, sorta an SS-cross type of bike with 37c tires or something. I think it'll roll better in the dark through the freakin' potholes all over norman.

I'm totally up for a mellow mountain ride, and I'm pretty sure my roommate would be too. He's insane, he regularly whips my ass on his $100 schwinn, I think he just doesn't understand how to be scared of trails.

I have not heard about the **** Tour, but count me in - except not this time, I'm outta town this weekend, sucks.