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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Briefcase Rack??
Message-ID: <270@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 19:18:18 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 13 19:18:18 1985
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pkh@alice.UUCP (Paul Pavlidis) <3947@alice.UUCP>:
>
>>  ...
>>  advantage of not unbalancing the bike and also won't be on the bike when
>
>Woah!  I know from experience that carrying *anything* on your back on a bike
>(especially in traffic) really makes you unstable (top heavy).  A big, bulky
>briefcase filled with paper can be pretty heavy.  Boom.  It is much safer to
>carry it on a rack of some sort.  That is probably why you don't see such items
>in catalogs.
>

I don't quite understand the problem here.  Back when I was in undergrad school,
I would often carry up to twenty pounds of textbooks, etc. in a camping-type
backpack with frame while bicycling back and forth from campus to my car which
was parked maybe a mile or so away (why that kind of arrangement is another
story) and never did the weight give me any difficulty.  In fact I was rather
puny at the time.  (Maybe it helped that the bike was a relatively heavy
cheap K-mart 10-speed :-).)  I would imagine a briefcase, by its shape, to be
awkward to carry that way however.  Not impossible but awkward.

here's hacking,
dan levy
at&t (data communications products division, aka Teletype Corporation)
skokie, illinois