It is interesting how varied the methods of carrying the papers are. I used canvas bags looped around the front of the wide steel cruiser bars not too dissimilar in shape from some of the recent Riv handlebar offerings. In the back, Wald baskets. On days with thick papers, I'd load both baskets, and the front bags, and then stack papers between the two baskets in back and throw those first.
I never used the canvas bags that you wore over your head--mostly because the older kid I inherited the route from taught me his way and I just stayed with it. If I was doing a route now on a bike, I'd take the Quickbeam with front basket--I think the papers are so slim these days that I could fit twice or three times as many papers in the same space I used in the 70s-80s. On Wednesday, September 8, 2021 at 8:33:39 AM UTC-7 Lefebeaver wrote: > I delivered papers 6 days a week for the Portsmouth (NH) Herald. I went by > bicycle unless the snow was very, very deep. I think it's influenced my > lifelong attitude, which jives with the Riv philosophy, that a bicycle > should be outfitted to be as robust and useful as possible, and carry > anything. And I could go right out this afternoon on my Atlantis and > deliver papers - it's perfectly set up for it! > > On Monday, September 6, 2021 at 12:11:33 PM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> Dave Moulton has an interesting little post on his blog today about >> the disappearance of the paper boy. I don't recall ever having seen >> one except (always!) in movies, but then we lived when I was a boy in >> the US in what was still a semi rural area, and the rest of the time >> overseas. All the newspaper deliverers I've seen have been middle aged >> people in cars. >> >> http://davesbikeblog.squarespace.com/blog/2021/9/6/the-newspaper-boy.html >> >> I do recall working followup for the 1990 census on a bike! (I did >> similar work for the 1980 census in my car in a very rural part of NW >> Georgia; now that was interesting -- like Deliverance except that the >> people were very nice, even though I was -- to them -- a Yankee >> Oriental who was asking way too many personal questions.) >> >> >> >> -- >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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/b3173352-4f2e-4b1b-a9f7-4ce79614d2c9n%40googlegroups.com.
