What’s wrong with a mountain bike having grocery bags hanging off the handlebars? I do that all the time (I do have fenders tho…). However, I find that if they are on both ends of the bars, the oscillation from pedaling gets too hard to overcome. It’s better to just use one end of the bar.
What is wrong with using the right tool for the right job? 😉
The only way I ride with a bag hanging off the bar is the 25 meters from the door to the garbage bin. And that is far away from any traffic.
If it works, what’s wrong with using what you have instead of spending more money on more stuff? Old rigid MTBs make great city bikes, and bar-ends make serviceable bag hooks for short trips. Yehuda’s only legitimate gripe (other than not being able to sell someone an overpriced set of Basil bags they don’t really need) is the lack of fenders.
I’ve got drop bars so I use Wald folding baskets (which are probably the best bike accessory I have ever bought), but my dad leaves his panniers at home for local shopping because he finds bar-hanging is more convenient.
if it works, okay, but most people I see with bags at bars, swerve about, ride very slow and uncertain, and often refuse to use their brakes, jump off their bikes instead. Nothing to make traffic in small places save and easy.
What’s wrong with it? Grocery bags swing around with every pedal stroke, acting as pendulums and amplifying your natural wobble as you ride, making the bike less stable.
Walmart closed its business in Germany 2006, after trying 10 years to settle down.
Never liked the shop, the employees always looked like they where forced to work there.
I have a hybrid, but every week when I get my groceries from the store they end up dangling off the handlebars. The trick is to balance the weight evenly and tie them tight so they don’t oscillate/swing so much.
Now that I’m out of school though, looking to build a trailer!
My groceries come home in a pair of Ortliebs, or, in Cold weather, or if shopping means more than 50m walking, my messenger bag. Keeps my bike easy to steer, what is necessary in dense and often fast traffic on narrow city roads.
Whoever thinks grocery bags on the handlebars is a good idea ever, certainly has not worked as a bike mechanic.
Guess how many wheels I have rebuilt or trued / replaced broken spokes after said bags have gotten caught in the wheel? It is not an insignificant number.
What’s wrong with a mountain bike having grocery bags hanging off the handlebars? I do that all the time (I do have fenders tho…). However, I find that if they are on both ends of the bars, the oscillation from pedaling gets too hard to overcome. It’s better to just use one end of the bar.
What is wrong with using the right tool for the right job? 😉
The only way I ride with a bag hanging off the bar is the 25 meters from the door to the garbage bin. And that is far away from any traffic.
If it works, what’s wrong with using what you have instead of spending more money on more stuff? Old rigid MTBs make great city bikes, and bar-ends make serviceable bag hooks for short trips. Yehuda’s only legitimate gripe (other than not being able to sell someone an overpriced set of Basil bags they don’t really need) is the lack of fenders.
I’ve got drop bars so I use Wald folding baskets (which are probably the best bike accessory I have ever bought), but my dad leaves his panniers at home for local shopping because he finds bar-hanging is more convenient.
if it works, okay, but most people I see with bags at bars, swerve about, ride very slow and uncertain, and often refuse to use their brakes, jump off their bikes instead. Nothing to make traffic in small places save and easy.
What’s wrong with it? Grocery bags swing around with every pedal stroke, acting as pendulums and amplifying your natural wobble as you ride, making the bike less stable.
Walmart closed its business in Germany 2006, after trying 10 years to settle down.
Never liked the shop, the employees always looked like they where forced to work there.
I have a hybrid, but every week when I get my groceries from the store they end up dangling off the handlebars. The trick is to balance the weight evenly and tie them tight so they don’t oscillate/swing so much.
Now that I’m out of school though, looking to build a trailer!
My groceries come home in a pair of Ortliebs, or, in Cold weather, or if shopping means more than 50m walking, my messenger bag. Keeps my bike easy to steer, what is necessary in dense and often fast traffic on narrow city roads.
The “guy on a fenderless moutain bike” uses a bike, not a car, that’s the most important point 😉
Yehuda should be glad to see that.
What’s more, why should anyone have to switch bikes (which means a ride home to grab the other bike), only to have to come back to do their shopping.
for safety reasons for example?
Whoever thinks grocery bags on the handlebars is a good idea ever, certainly has not worked as a bike mechanic.
Guess how many wheels I have rebuilt or trued / replaced broken spokes after said bags have gotten caught in the wheel? It is not an insignificant number.
And broken jawbones are another related issue…