CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
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It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
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I reckon the ideal solution is a liberated shopping basket. Despite keeping my eyes peeled, I failed to find an abandoned one.
My box is from gothamcargo, and I wouldn't/didn't pay anything like the asking price. It's nice and solid (and came with axle mounts if you didn't already have a front rack), but still...
One of the wee elasticated covers you get for kerbside recycling boxes would be good for a basket/box, as long as it had a lip.
A few years ago I picked up a few spare Vaude pannier-hooks, with the intention of one day owning a second pannier which I could then adapt in the same way as my first (with a bit of wood inside, attached to the hook, to keep the aft end clear of the spokes and with a pair of Vaude QMR hooks on the top rail to replace the original non-locking hooks), but in the meantime I've since looked at them speculatively with regard to potentially using them to help a basket attach to a rack in a quickly-releasable way.
Thumbs up for front carriers. I recently upgraded my own bike's front container from a blue plastic fruit crate to a large basket. The basket was the bottom half of a post-Christmas food hamper we found in a bargain shop for silly money. It hasn't fallen apart yet and looks wonderfully baskety.
"One of the wee elasticated covers you get for kerbside recycling boxes would be good for a basket/box, as long as it had a lip."
likewise the thin pannier covers that come with EBC panniers. Lighter and more packable than the recycling ones.
That's a lovely looking box. After tinkering about with front/back basket options, I went for a rear-rack mounted one on my Gazelle. Wouldn't be without one now. Got a couple of Rok motorbike straps which I leave on permanently to keep stuff strapped in. The buckles on those straps mean no dangling-bungee-chord-hook-in-spokes errors.
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