Waiting for Chauncey to deliver the new (God willing) Riv Road clone, with custom rackset, I've been reduced to shopping with my 1999 Joe gofast with Camper Longflap. Today's ride was an extended detour to the nearest Sprout"s and local grass-fed, free-range meat/egg Keller's.
I'm sorry, but certainly the Camper LF, and even the Large Sackville, is no match for big Ortliebs when it comes to serious grocery shopping. I filled up the CLF at Sprout's and had to use the Velo Retro musette (I keep 1 stashed with the tool kit for each bike) for the ~3 lb of various sausages, 1 lb gr beef, and 2 personal-size packs o' chips. Fortunately, home is 3/4 mile from Keller's. With just rear Rollers -- the setup on the new bike will allow for Sports lowriders in addition -- I could have carried it all with a great deal of room to spare, and the bike would have been far less top heavy -- holding 6-pack in right hand as I kept hold of bike with left, I had the bike 3 times fall over on its side due to weight imbalance, in the checkout line, as other shoppers looked on diapprovingly. One-hand rescues in each case, and the drawstring neck prevented spillage, but still, not conducing to the air of effortless mastery that I like to project. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgs713gMZF6Wt%2BYFrQWuhEuyKNzUObKmNDebFPd2bmtEVg%40mail.gmail.com.
