Bikey bits…

In the last couple of weeks I’ve had a bunch of stuff arrive from Rivendell Bicycle Works not, sadly, including a new bike. That is, of course, not their fault; I haven’t ordered one…yet.
No, mostly these have been bits and pieces I ordered either during their first ever sale or shortly thereafter. Much of the stuff is destined for my soon to be orange Fujiyama, other bits seem to have found their way to my Quickbeam.
Some things my end up pulling double duty however. I’d ordered one of Riv’s big shopping sacks which was really designed to go with a large Wald basket. That, of course, required ordering the basket.
When it came in it seemed a shame to wait till my Fujiyama was back together to see how I liked it all. And thus it was that my Quickbeam ended up with a basket.

Mine is 18x13x6 which is pretty darn big. In fact, it may be too big for the Fujiyama which has a much smaller frame than my QB. I may end up getting the smaller basket for that or another large one…hmmm…
In any case I was worried that it might detract from the look of my QB (which needs a good cleaning), but in fact it looks pretty good. You can see the whole bike with it mounted right here…

It hasn’t affected the ride much at all as I’ve already got a large rack up front and am used to carrying a pretty good load there. It’s really just easier now.
I’ve been giving some thought to taking the QB back down to basics and having lean and fun city bike…but ya know, it’s not like I’m going anywhere fast in town and town is exactly when I need to be able to carry stuff so…
I guess I’m back to thinking about n+1 bikes again…I need a lean bike to ride out of town…one that mean and lean…and, oh yeah, carry a bunch of stuff for camping…him…n+1+1 methinks.
Aloha!