Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Pizza on a bike

School day and everyone was headed home late.  I was commuting home from St. Paul.  I got the call from Hillary who was headed home in the Roo trike with T and H after T's tennis lesson.  "How 'bout we order a pizza," she proposed.  "How 'bout I get a bake-at-home pizza at Papa Murphys," I replied.  I turned around and headed there.  I got the pizza and wondered how I was going to get it home without it turning into a plastic-wrapped wad of pizza sauce, toppings, and dough.

With a little ingenuity it is amazing what you can strap to a bike.  After scratching my head for a moment, I slipped one end of the pizza box into my left pannier rain cover and snagged one box corner with the handle of the right pannier.  I wrapped the left pannier's strap over the left side of the box.  But how to tension that strap?  Ah, the side benefits of a cable lock.  I unwrapped enough of my cable lock and slipped it through the strap, relocked and voila - the pizza was level and well secured without any added strapping.  Little did the pannier company, Jandd, know that their rain cover can double as a pizza delivery sleeve!