October rides: not where but weight.

[Patrick Moore]

41.03 lb of groceries (19.78 + 21.25), all in the rear, at the, thankfully, very short last-leg of a 19 mile shopping detour (19.68 miles compared to the ~0.5 miles direct route) on the ASC fixed gear. This is one shopping trip that would have benefited greatly from the front Ortlieb Sports Rollers, or whateeverthehell the smaller Back Rollers are now called. 

Not the best handling with this perfectly-balanced-when-unladen Riv-cloned road bike, but it wasn’t too bad; certainly better than altering the frame design to perform better under loads and jeopardizing it’s unladen handling.

With weight more evenly distributed front + rear, it handles 50 lb loads with a plomb despite it’s lightweight road tubing and aforesaid road geometry.

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Patrick Moore

Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum

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When thou didst not, savage, know thine own meaning,

But wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish,

I endowed thy purposes with words that made them known.

[Bruce Byker James]

I weighed a grocery run not long ago at 40lb. on the rack and 10lb. in my backpack. Here's a photo of another load from a Fedex run today—much lighter (maybe 10lb.?), but more awkward.

 - Bruce

[Greg Lamont]

Costco run. I'm not sure how much the cargo weighed, but I'm guessing close to 100 pounds.