Large Shopsack is quite stellar. I use it on top of my Pass & Stow, and it can carry A LOT.
Haven't used it in a a basket yet. Esteban San Diego, Calif. On Mar 22, 9:45 pm, Beth H <periwinkle...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Mar 22, 6:17 pm, Rene Sterental <orthie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I wonder if anyone can give any feedback on the Large Shopsack and the large > > (gigantic) basket. > > I haven't tried the shopsack so I can't speak to that. But I can say > that you should install as large a front basket as you and your bike > can handle. > I tend to be a rear-load rider myself, having been raised on a fairly > steady diet of British-geometrie'd bikes. > > However, I DID use a Really Huge Basket on the one front-loader (a > frame with appropriate fork trail for front-loading) I built up > several years ago. > The Wald Model # 157 (also known around here as the Humungous Hardcore > Messenger Basket) regularly held my Dee-Dog sized Timbuk2 messenger > bag with plenty of room to spare. > > Largest load ever was that bag filled with library books, nestled in > alongside a short case of beer and three gallon jugs of milk (I was > dropping off library books and doing a grocery run for a barbecue). It > came to something like 45 pounds of stuff all neatly bungee'd in place > because it was really overflowing on top; and while it was slow, shaky > going for me, the basket handled it with aplomb. > > So if you don't mind heavy loads up front, the Wald basket can totally > handle it. > Beth -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
