If you pick up some Basil Dutch panniers you can have child seat and panniers and stoker*. Today!
* Front of the panniers fits under child seat leg protector due to being soft foldable fabric.
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Posted 12 years ago #
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That should work with hamax. might get some for mr srd* but not on helios, which takes copilot/blackburn rack.
*although review on amazon suggests that might not be good idea, as we tend to load a lot of groceries into ours.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I have used them with a Hamax seat, and with a Bobike Junior too, both on a compact framed Globe hybrid. Hamax reduces the capacity of panniers a smidgen, Bobike hardly at all. Still possible to stick some shopping in them even with the Hamax. Handy for waterproofs, tool kit, snacks, etc. too.
These are the smallest panniers Basil make, which is good because the child seat effectively shortens the rear rack substantially. Therefore the panniers are not compromised to the same extent larger ones would be. My first set also tore on one side (I think I was overloading them), but the replacements have been fine so far, and carried some heavy stuff too.
Now that I'm using the tagalong a lot, have invested in some larger 35 litre panniers and moved the smaller ones to another bike. Can now ferry two bags of shopping plus No.1 son using the hybrid. Haven't tried them with Hamax seat on top but I doubt they'd fit satisfactorily. Might just fit with Bobike Junior though...
Posted 12 years ago # -
Did a child carrying setup test today with an Avenir/Polisport child seat on the Ute deck, various fixings removed and replaced with bit of MDF cut to shape, which I'll bolt to the seat. Just need to sort out a clamp arrangement to hold to the deck...
Posted 12 years ago # -
I didn't realise it had such elegant lines, which I concede is hardly the point.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I think I'd like one of those bikes please. Ta. Whoever's listening.
Posted 12 years ago # -
The Ute has 'gone Dutch': I finally got around to fitting the Basil front carrier. Just added a couple of lengths of aluminium profile, cut to size and drilled, to make the carrier fit on the MTB-style stem, much lower than the high stems Dutch bikes have.
The new carrier will allow a bit of stuff to be carried up front, helping to improve the steering when the bike is fully loaded at the back.
Pics are a bit dark and rainy, taken at 8pm this evening...
Posted 12 years ago # -
I got one of those carriers for my old MTB that I use for trailer and tagalong hauling. It's supposed to attach to the brake bosses and mudguard bolt hole (to fit with the front shocks) but I discovered too late that I don't have a mudguard bolt hole and the brake fitting just makes the brakes bind. Haven't got round to bodging it but they look good for perching a child on or bringing a crate of beer back from the shops.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I have a carrier like that on the Globe hybrid, attached to brake bosses and mudguard/light/caliper brake bolt hole in the fork. I don't put much weight on it, but it can handle a bag of shopping, six pack of beer, etc.
The carrier on the Ute is a bit sturdier, all steel instead of alloy. You can't quite make out in the murky pics that it attaches at two points:
- struts bolt on to the axles (Ute has a solid front axle rather than QR skewer)
- two sturdy steel hooks go over the handle bars
The latter is where I had to add the aluminium profile to get the carrier to fit.See an earlier post in this thread for a pic of the carrier. In fact if they had kept the design as it is shown in that stock pic, I would not have had to add anything to make it fit...
I'm thinking a nice wooden crate would look good on the front. Failing that a plastic one will do, or even a wicker basket. It's nice and versatile anyhow.
Posted 12 years ago # -
The one on the hybrid looks like this: is that what you mean, or do you have something fancier by VO or Nitto?
Posted 12 years ago # -
Mine is this one bought from that very boutique at the same time as I was getting these funky hand-warmers for wee Ellen's tagalong. Longer bolts for the brakes (which I have) and a bodged strut to connect the mudguard bit to the brake booster on the fork (which is at the back of the suspension fork, rather than the front, where you want it) should do it.
If I had your rack I'd try to get a wooden box from an off-licence with a nice French vineyard scene on it. In a couple of months it would be beautifully distressed.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Majestic on Causewayside used to be fairly free with their used bottle-delivery crates, but they wouldn't be much good for transporting anything more than a couple of lettuces and a bag of pastries without some strengthening.
Posted 12 years ago # -
That's a nice carrier. The Ute doesn't have canti bosses on the fork as it's all disc.
I have a plastic crate kicking around, also a wire shopping basket which my partner 'liberated' a while ago. A wine box/crate would be nice: quite difficult to get hold of nowadays, folk sell them as 'vintage' storage for obscene amounts!
Posted 12 years ago # -
I'll have a rake in my brother's man-shed. He had two nice old looking boxes full of old chemists' bottles at the weekend that I should have nabbed (leaving the bottles behind) at the same time as I was taking an old shop hanging sign that's a giant Kodak 120 film carton. God knows what I'm going to do with it but it's mine now.
Failing that, I might be forced to buy a box of wine at Costco next time I'm there. I'm sure they sell wine in wooden boxes. When I lived in Comiston Road, the guy in Henderson Wines was very helpful (at least when he was selling me wine and beer).
But please, not the shopping basket. All that elegance gone in an instant.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Fitted my rack and found myself a box, Needs a bit of weathering though.
Posted 12 years ago # -
@insto Rub a wee bit of mud, squished slugs and chain oil - park on a north facing slope for a year or two, and presto, home made ageing.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Scoop out the grains at the bottom of a used cafetiere, apply in a circular motion. Rinse and repeat. Ought to smell good, too.
Wine box basket = like a Sir. I approve.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Nice. Must get one. Maybe I'll wood stain it to try and darken down a bit though.
Posted 12 years ago # -
There's one of the racks above that Crowriver posted an image of at the Bike Station (at least there was last weekend). It's been there some time. I thought it was missing bits, but now realise it's for a canti bike.
Posted 12 years ago # -
very aerodynamic.
Posted 12 years ago # -
very aerodynamic.
I don't think he'll be doing time trials on it. Utility cycling, you know? Hauling stuff about, usually over fairly short distances, speed not particularly relevant.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I need to get myself a range of boxes and change them to suit the destination. This one would do for Morningside and the New Town. When I head to Dunfermline, I need a mid-range unchallenging table wine and for Rosyth, an old cardboard Buckfast box.
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