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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:34:58 -0800, Tom Keats wrote:
In article , maxo writes: On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:58:17 -0800, Tom Keats wrote: If beer cans were available in milk crate height Ohhh, such sweet fantasy! I don't have any beer cans available, but 2 stacked similarly-sized Coke cans aren't high enough. Neither are WaggleDance, Ebulum Elderberry Black Ale, or Old Peculier bottles. A Guzano Rojo mezcal bottle might be. cheers, Tom I vote for a small pride of 750ml Corsendonk bottles. |
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maxo writes: I vote for a small pride of 750ml Corsendonk bottles. Those big Ranier Ale ("The Green Death") bottles might work, too. But then I'd have to go Stateside for a medium-sized pizza, and it'll get cold by the time I'd get it home. Riding to the Peace Arch border crossing from Vancouver is a circuitous PITA, unless one wants to spend busfare (the buses have bike racks) just to go through a stupid tunnel where cycling is prohibited. After all that, one might as well get a large pizza anyway. So Corsendonk it is. Or those big plastic bottles of (ugh) Watney's. cheers, Tom -- -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca |
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"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott" I reckon I left myself wide open for that one. Sorry, I really couldn't resist. In all seriousness, I've been commuting with a Critical Mass bag from Patagonia for almost a year now, and a Canadian made messenger bag for a couple years before that. I have a Canadian bag coming that appears to be nicely made. Thanks for the pointer to the Patagonia bag. A rhetorical question: who the heck thinks up names like "critical mass" for things like messenger bags? Friggin word salad: throw a bunch of words in a bowl and pull out two. Inspired by Critical Mass bicycle rides, in which crowds of cyclists take to the streets to either disrupt rush hour traffic or demonstrate the superiority of bicycle commuting, depending on who you ask. At least I hope it has nothing to do with self sustaining nuclear fission. -- mark |
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On 3/16/2005 8:49 PM mark wrote:
"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott" I reckon I left myself wide open for that one. Sorry, I really couldn't resist. In all seriousness, I've been commuting with a Critical Mass bag from Patagonia for almost a year now, and a Canadian made messenger bag for a couple years before that. I have a Canadian bag coming that appears to be nicely made. Thanks for the pointer to the Patagonia bag. A rhetorical question: who the heck thinks up names like "critical mass" for things like messenger bags? Friggin word salad: throw a bunch of words in a bowl and pull out two. Inspired by Critical Mass bicycle rides, in which crowds of cyclists take to the streets to either disrupt rush hour traffic or demonstrate the superiority of bicycle commuting, depending on who you ask. grins sheepishly I shoulda known that. -- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)" KG6RCR |
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"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
m wrote in It seems the only place that I can find REAL milk-crates -- the truly sturdy heavy-duty kinda waxy plastic ones that humans can't break -- are in stacks behind food stores and are stamped "PROPERTY OF SAFEWAY STORES. THE GUY WHO OWNS THIS BIKE STOLE IT." The ones available for sale, in places like Target, are made of the same stuff that Revelle models are made of and will shatter if you give them a sharp look. For the most part, that's right. I did get a number of them a few ago that were just as strong as "real" milk crates. Unfortunately, I got them at Woolworth's, which is no longer an option. Rummage sales are a good place to find this sort of thing. Just buy one from a defunct dairy, so it would no longer matter if it was originally stolen. |
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Peter Cole wrote:
To answer my own question: http://tinyurl.com/4anrr Nope -- those are cheap-o brittle plastic kind that break if you even make fun of them. From the description: "There's nothing like the real thing. These are the same strong crates sold to milk producers. They're tough enough to stand on..." I've bought a few things at the Container Store. All have either broken ($88 kitchen trash can my wife wanted, shoe rack for hall) or are nonfunctional (what good is a "designer" bathroom plunger that looks really cool but doesn't actually clear clogs?). Perhaps it's just bad luck on my part, but I wouldn't trust their catalog description. In fairness, I'm not at all familiar with these crates -- if you are, I defer to your opinion. |
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