Bike as only transport.
 

How do you organise your life if you only have a bike. That is no car or one on hand for shopping and all the other mundane parts of life that I have taken for granted since 1988. I've always had a car and a bike. Now just my bike.

How do you carry the shopping without resorting to a topbox(shudder)?

Taxi! - I'll get me coat.

A nice big sports bag, pack it well at the shops and strap it on the back seat - if you also carry a big rucksack for the light and bulky items you can get a weeks worth no problem. Add a tank bag and you are laughing.

I can actually carry more on my pushbike but that is harder work.....

I shudder when people say they think it is hard to survive without a car - it is only hard because you are not used to it. Plan well and you will wonder why you ever needed a car!

I didnt have any form of private transport for 8 years plus.

Internet shopping is great for the groceries.

If you NEED a car/van then just hire.

Mind you that was Central London.

Re: Bike as only transport.
 

Tailpack, Tankbag or Rucksack, buy enough to keep you going for a week and do a weekly shop instead of a monthly.

I didnt have a car for 8months, I managed OK without one, You just have to be inentive. I'm lucky theres a Morrisons 5 minutes walk from my house though.

And to address the shopping bit.

I tend to shop on a daily basis for evening meal bits - usually only half a dozen bits.

All fits in tank bag usually.

As said elsewhere, planning and a bungee net are your friends

Fair enough, but I've got interviews to go to. How do people react when you turn up in leathers with a CV tucked in a messenger bag?

Shopping?.

Womans work that. I just hand over the plastic and somehow the account is empty, so is the pantry, at least the wifes wardrobe is full.

Hmmmm is there a connection. I wonder.

I had to do that once, called up in advance to see if it would be problem, they said no as it was a 'dress down' company anyway.

I got the job.

your mileage may vary. :wink:

Wear leathers to interview with "Interview Clothes" in bag, arrive 30 mins early, ask the receptionist if there is a bathroom you can use to change,

Get changed.

leave lid/bag with receptionist.

Do interview

Rince and repeat in reverse on way out.

Or phone ahead and ask :)

David