Archive for April 30th, 2007

Wanted: Bicycle Commuting Panniers for Laptop and Groceries

Just realized that I really have no business commuting 2 miles to work by car except when I know I’m going to need to move stuff bigger than a breadbasket that day.

Walking is too slow and I really don’t like getting “dead arm” from shlepping my laptop, books and other stuff.

I live in Los Angeles and the notion of a big wet spot on my back from using a backpack isn’t appealing, either.

Is it safe to just get a rear bike rack and bungee-cord my laptop in a padded case? Any bicycle commuters out there with tips.

Yeah, I could go full-metal-bike geek and drop $130 on a set of Arkel briefcase bags but maybe there’s a cheaper solution that would work? I almost want some kind of hybrid pannier where I can take a bag of groceries on one side and my laptop bag on the other.