Patrick/all, I am loving how many lovely, bready responses there are. And such a lovely OP. Bon Appetit, everyone.
On Tuesday, August 13, 2024 at 4:26:08 PM UTC-4 Peter Adler wrote: > As a decades-long purchaser of baguettes, with access to four > baguette-generating bakeries within ten minutes of my front door (Berkeley > is a city of bakers), I proclaim that the rational way to carry a baguette > in an Ortlieb rolltop pannier isn’t to stick it in the bag. It’s to roll it > up in the rolltop, so the baguette is in-line with the direction of travel. > It reduces the risk of kicking the end off the loaf when you swing your leg > over, and the forward end of the baguette is aimed roughly at the back of > the rider’s knee - an area with a low decapitation risk. Plus, keeping the > baguette horizontal preserves over-the-shoulder visibility. > > The Frenchy side-to-side placement - that’s for postcards. It’s a loser on > any road where someone might drive/bike past you. Nobody in a city is going > to concede clearance to a loaf of bread. Monsieur Lindsay has been in Paris > most recently; even with their much-vaunted bikeification of the last 10-15 > years, I daresay he can confirm that Parisian motorists barely allow > clearance for the cyclist alone, much less a 1 meter bubble around them to > keep bread intact. Besides, even if a Parisian cyclist’s baguette gets > trashed, it’s no biggie; it’s not as if they aren’t cheap, and there’s a > boulangerie on every block. > > Peter Adler > Who twirls his Adolphe Menjou moustache in > Berkeley, California/Etats Unis d’Amerique > > > On Tuesday, August 13, 2024 at 11:21:15 AM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: > > I'm amused by the response from the Rivendell baguette community. > Rivendell ought to develop a top-tube baguette carrier. I had to be careful > when swinging my leg over the carrier to avoid decapitating the baguettes > (yesterday carried hedge shears in these to cut back a bike-obstructing > weed-bush near the commons back gate -- handles down to protect the fabric. > I was *very *careful to raise my left leg high when swinging it over the > carrier). > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/17f38fb7-af93-4b87-8418-c046164d203an%40googlegroups.com.
