http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: You can't shop AND cycle en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:57:57 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347&page=2#post-113070 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:54:44 +0000 lionfish 113070@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>lol - oops - stupid question :) I thought it looked like it would have been too heavy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347&page=2#post-113068 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:50:15 +0000 SRD 113068@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>loo roll's easy because it's so light and easy to bungee.</p> <p> compost and manure better by trailer </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347&page=2#post-113067 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:49:03 +0000 steveo 113067@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Compost on the top of a rack would be interesting!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347&page=2#post-113066 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:46:52 +0000 Zenfrozt 113066@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@lionfish it's 3 packs of Andrex lol, it's on offer in Asda at the moment. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347&page=2#post-113065 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:44:50 +0000 lionfish 113065@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Zen: Good stuff! What is all that stuff bungied on the back of your bike? Compost? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347&page=2#post-113061 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:26:13 +0000 Zenfrozt 113061@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Our bi monthly shop by bike. Your argument is invalid :p<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/92124173@N03/8958123240/" title="IMG_20130604_173632_743 by Zenfrozt2013, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3690/8958123240_77528c03d8.jpg" alt="IMG_20130604_173632_743" /></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347&page=2#post-112954 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:32:54 +0000 cc 112954@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Baldcyclist So do most of your shopping by bike then for the Extreme Shopping trips take the car (or whatever)? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347&page=2#post-112950 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:17:10 +0000 crowriver 112950@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It all depends where you go shopping. I'd have though Glasgow shopping was a matter of train to Queen Street, then walking around the pedestrianised centre. There's a Go Outdoors in Granton I believe, but if you're city centre shopping Milletts or some other outdoor shop will suffice.</p> <p>Of course cars give you the option to tour around several towns/cities to go shopping, but I think this is not the point of the discussion. The contention was you cannot go shopping and cycle, when it's patently obvious you can. The <em>style</em> of shopping maybe different to that using a car, but still has some advantages over, say, shopping by bus or train, principally that you can carry more, and have more flexibility/mobility. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347&page=2#post-112925 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:49:37 +0000 Baldcyclist 112925@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You can't [easily, or cost efficiently in one day] shop AND cycle ..... in Glasgow, with a visit to Go Outdoors in Airdrie, or a coffee and wander in Stirling on the way home, when you live n Fife.</p> <p>OK extreme examples I admit, but examples none the less of shopping trips we have taken in the last year or so. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347&page=2#post-112922 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:25:50 +0000 kaputnik 112922@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was wondering if you had a lion or something in the back garden to feed until I realised you were referring to the piglet. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347&page=2#post-112920 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:20:07 +0000 wingpig 112920@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Regularly carrying 15kg of meat which is able to shift its own centre of gravity an inch or so either side on top of the rack is probably trickier than even heavily-packed (but lower-down and less wriggly) panniers. I have to keep my panniers fairly far back in order to not foul my heels so the odd miniature wheelie when setting off is not unknown. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112913 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:56:28 +0000 crowriver 112913@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We are a family of four. See threads passim for discussion of shopping using a wee Raleigh Swift folding bike as transport. Small wheeled bikes can carry a remarkable amount of stuff.</p> <p>Nowadays I go shopping with the tandem, the hybrid, and once a month or so I do a large supermarket run with the Ute (mainly dried goods, cans, jars, bottles, heavy lifting department).</p> <p>Assuming you have panniers which are sufficiently large and robust, he only thing to be careful about when shopping by bike is load distribution. A bit like being a pedestrian really: if one bag is really heavy and the other really light, you'll have trouble balancing. Keeping heavier stuff low down, and between the two axles is key. Lighter goods can go just about anywhere so long as you can still see where you're going, get pedal clearance and steer okay. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112910 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:39:30 +0000 neddie 112910@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I love going into Lord John's, loading up a basket to bursting then see the checkout person watch in disbelief as I fit it all into a single pannier! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112906 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:18:14 +0000 kaputnik 112906@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The good news is that I somehow managed to get the bottle of pesticide home.</p> <p>Take <em>THAT</em>, greenfly and take <strong>THAT</strong>, Hootsmon doubtists. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112901 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:29:19 +0000 giantsbrae 112901@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I regularly load up my panniers,rack and back pack with 60 cans of cider, when the price is right, its a bit flexi, steering is a bit light, but better than carrying them, and before anyone asks, no they are not all drunk in the one session. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112897 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:30:38 +0000 cc 112897@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How much you can carry must depend partly on the bike. I see the <a href="http://www.workcycles.com/home-products/handmade-city-bicycles/workcycles-fr8-universal-frame-as-city-bike">Workcycles Fr8</a> can take "at least 250kg" of rider plus shopping. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112884 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:59:34 +0000 Rosie 112884@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I do my supermarket shopping with panniers and a back-pack, but I'm not shopping for a family. If I'm buying heavy stuff from Homebase like bags of compost I'll get a taxi to take the stuff back, along with me and my cycle. That would only be once or twice a year that I'd do that.</p> <p>But when it comes to browsing-style shopping eg buying clothes and shoes in Princes/George Street a bicycle is a nuisance. You don't want to push it round the pavements among the pedestrians. I also don't want to leave it somewhere and have to trail back to it several blocks away. So for that kind of shopping I'll catch a bus. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112873 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:19:16 +0000 Kim 112873@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As someone who hasn't owned a car since 1994, I do all my shopping on foot or by bike. One one occasion I collected 3 Sq/m of tiles for the kitchen by bike, which weighted in an nearly 20 Kg. </p> <p>However, until we make it easy to do, most people won't feel able to shop by bicycle the way that is common in the Netherlands and Denmark. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112852 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:14:55 +0000 Dave 112852@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>To be fair, you can walk back to George St and put a load of shopping in your boot midway through the day. </p> <p>Walking back to George St to the bike parking and putting things on your bike before walking back down to Princes St is not going to happen, is it? (Unless someone comes up with hardened steel lockable panniers? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112844 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:09:31 +0000 DaveC 112844@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>You have a rolls parked somewhere out of town to put the bikes on the back of?</em></p> <p>He parks it in Barnton, so it blends in. ;o) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112839 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:48:41 +0000 Baldcyclist 112839@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@edd1e Aye, too expensive to run all week, hence the reason for mixing with the peasants on bikes Mon - Fri. ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112837 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:26:57 +0000 neddie 112837@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Baldyclist</p> <p><em>...to go for the rolls at the weekend</em></p> <p>You have a rolls parked somewhere out of town to put the bikes on the back of?</p> <p>Wow! ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112835 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:12:16 +0000 Arellcat 112835@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I have to get some pesticide to help deal with a greenfly infestation on the way home and…</em></p> <p>Is that some form of guerilla gardening? CEC pays people to maintain its foliage, y'know. ;) (I believe it's known as a misplaced modifer.)</p> <p><em>Or buy some ladybirds</em></p> <p>Ladybirds seem to be in very short supply. I haven't seen any this year. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112833 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:10:14 +0000 kaputnik 112833@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Or buy some ladybirds</em></p> <p>Never seen any ladybirds in my backgarden </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112829 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:59:30 +0000 LaidBack 112829@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You can own and re-sell / bequeath a CD. Ownership of an iTunes track resides with  (apparently)... you are merely renting an MP4 file.... going OT here! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112828 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:56:11 +0000 cb 112828@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"The 15kg bag of dog food alone wouldn't fit."</p> <p>Dog panniers? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112823 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:45:32 +0000 chdot 112823@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wots a CD?</p> <p>Bit of plastic that saves you finding out how itunes works? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112821 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:42:37 +0000 chdot 112821@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Or spray it on yourself, leave the packaging at the shop and roll on the greenfly when you get home. </p> <p>Or buy some ladybirds. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112820 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:42:36 +0000 Baldcyclist 112820@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I can't see much point in shopping with a bicycle. Even with panniers I couldn't carry much home"</p> <p>Neither can I (see much point), my panniers wouldn't be big enough for a monthly shop. The 15kg bag of dog food alone wouldn't fit. ;)</p> <p>I do use my bike (if Mrs Baldcyclist isn't coming), or walk, to go for the rolls at the weekend, and any 'local' shopping that we need to do. My nearest 'big' shop is more than 5 hilly and non cycle path reachable miles away, so we do need the car for that. I must confess that I *like* internet food shopping, but my wife for some reason unbeknown to me prefers to trapse round the isles of the Supermarket every week.</p> <p>However, if you do wish to use your bike for shopping, that is fine. So is using the car. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10347#post-112819 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:41:59 +0000 steveo 112819@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I guess I'll have to put the stuff on the bike and push it all the way home? </em></p> <p>Don't be silly, thats what the city car club is for. Last time I had to buy a CD I rented a car to drive to the out of town shopping place and I'm glad I did, they're very heavy! </p>