Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttrdc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!mgnetp!ltuxa!ttrdc!levy 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 Article-I.D.: ttrdc.270 Posted: Sat Jul 13 19:18:18 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jul-85 09:05:13 EDT References: <258@uvm-gen.UUCP>, <11351@brl-tgr.ARPA> <3947@alice.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Teletype Corp., Skokie, IL Lines: 25 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