Plastic's Fantastic: Delivery Bike-Mods!

Hello All,

As we've previously posted, plastic is a great thing. When it's used well, that is.

All around town you'll see that bicycle delivery cats are modding up their bike with plastic accoutrements, so as to make them more functional and convenient. And the plastic components will last and last and last, and if they break, well, there's certainly not going to be any shortage of available plastic in the near future.

Check it:


Here we see two bikes, each modded with plastic bag/seat covers and corrugated plastic box/rear tire mud guards.



A strip of plastic box attached to the rear basket rest keeps mud and water from leaving a big, brown stripe up your back. Smart.

Here you see the Push Extreme clip on rear mud guard, with a list price of £17.98 (approximately $35.77 US) And that's before shipping and handling.

Here you see the Chunk of Plastic Taped to the Back of My Bike, with a list price of .30¢ which includes shipping and handling, plus labor.

Both products keep mud off of your back. One is 119 times more expensive than the other.
Savings!





Here's a guy who rode past us, but we managed a quick snap. The photo doesn't really show it, but he had used a slice of bucket as his rear mud guard. You could still faintly read the print of whatever the bucket had contained.

There are great examples of "plasti-engineering" all over town, and we resolve to document them and bring them to your attention. 'Cause they're rad and ingenious.

Necessity truly is the mother of invention.

Love to all,

Team SuperForest