Pizza!

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March 12, 2013 at 4:29 pm #912982

creadinger
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Seeing as how it’s lunch time and I’m eating a tasty slice of Vace pizza right now, I wanted to ask whether people have any tips, tricks or foolproof ways to carry a pizza on your bike. It’s not something that I regularly see, and as someone who regularly likes to do errands by bike, it’s funny that when it comes to picking up pizza I always walk or take the car. And I’m talking large pizzas here, 16-20″.

I have a standard rear rack, and I’ve used bungee cords to strap down things like a tent to the top of it before. That may work but I’m also really scared of being the guy who just spent $20 on a great pizza, have it spill all over the road, and isn’t ashamed enough to not eat it off the road, dirt and all.

Primary example – I’d love to order a humongous 20″ pizza from the Italian store in Arlington, and ride it back home via the Custis/MVT to home in Crystal City. It’s so convenient to the trail, I hate having to drive there for only pizza.
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March 12, 2013 at 4:39 pm #964386

americancyclo
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@creadinger 46001 wrote:

I have a standard rear rack, and I’ve used bungee cords to strap down things like a tent to the top of it before. That may work but I’m also really scared of being the guy who just spent $20 on a great pizza, have it spill all over the road

I’ve done that before, but only for about two miles.
could also be a good opportunity to practice riding with no hands.

March 12, 2013 at 4:51 pm #964388

jabberwocky
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Something like this?

http://www.amazon.com/Wald-257GB-Pizza-Multi-Fit-Basket/dp/B0080JOXQA

March 12, 2013 at 5:06 pm #964391

Birdstrike
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@jabberwocky 46005 wrote:

Something like this?

http://www.amazon.com/Wald-257GB-Pizza-Multi-Fit-Basket/dp/B0080JOXQA

Now that would be the perfect gift for the cyclist that has everything.

March 12, 2013 at 5:17 pm #964394

KLizotte
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Yeah, but even if you secure the box sufficiently to your bike you’re still gonna have a pizza that is “slip sliding and away” inside the box as you go up and down hills, over bumps, etc. Plus it’ll get cold by the time you get home at that distance I would think. On the other hand, I think NYC has pizza delivery guys using e-bikes.

March 12, 2013 at 5:28 pm #964396

vvill
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I’ve thought of getting a front rack and one of those insulated pizza carriers for the express purpose of bringing home pizza. The slip sliding around is something I haven’t considered though.

http://www.amazon.com/KegWorks-Pizza-Delivery-Bag-20/dp/B001OC52JM/

March 12, 2013 at 5:41 pm #964402

Terpfan
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I’ve asked Ledos to put them into the smaller boxes before and they obliged.

March 12, 2013 at 5:44 pm #964405

Tim Kelley
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I’ve done lasagne on a rear rack:

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March 12, 2013 at 6:00 pm #964410

creadinger
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@Terpfan 46019 wrote:

I’ve asked Ledos to put them into the smaller boxes before and they obliged.

Ledo’s works because it’s square pizza. It would be difficult to make a circle pizza fit into a smaller box. Maybe a trigonometrical mathematician could figure that out.

KLizotte wrote:

Yeah, but even if you secure the box sufficiently to your bike you’re still gonna have a pizza that is “slip sliding and away” inside the box as you go up and down hills, over bumps, etc. Plus it’ll get cold by the time you get home at that distance I would think. On the other hand, I think NYC has pizza delivery guys using e-bikes.

That is definitely a problem. I’m not too concerned about cold – reheating in the oven works well. I think the bumps would be the biggest problem, so maybe carrying several extra plastic tripod thingies would help keep it in place. Next time we get pizza I think I’m going to experiment using the empty box first, then move up to actual food to see what happens.

PS – I’m really bad at riding no handed. If I tried, me, the bike and the pizza would be crashed in a ditch 20 yards down the trail.

March 12, 2013 at 6:57 pm #964413

dasgeh
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People used pizza to deliver bikes in NYC all the time. I think if you stay on the roads in ARL, you’ll minimize bumps and, depending on where you’re going, hills. E.g. you could take Custis to the Italian Store, then Lee to Quincy (or to Monroe and neighborhood streets to Quincy) to Fairfax and West.

(yeah, I caught that, but thought it was too funny to fix)
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