Bicycle Handlebar Bag Buddy Makes Grocery Getting Easier

PDXFixed, you could still carry the typical reusable shopping bag, but no doubt it wouldn’t be as effective.

What an amazingly dumb idea. There’s so many good ways to carry stuff when riding, end of the bars isn’t one of them.

this gets the most stupid kickstarte project ever, which is not an easy task. So instead of putting the bags at the end of the bar, i can spend 20$ to do the same taks but just a bit worse and more unreliable? my godness. it’s just embarrasing even to look at it.

Oh, finally a place to hang my helmet.
Makes just as much sense.

“to change the angle of a grocery bag’s attachment point. This serves to minimize the bags’ left-to-right sway,”

Right, because the physics of a swinging bag is all about which direction you hang it, not that it’s a pendulum. At what level of kickstarter pledge do you get a dental surgery crash insurance policy?

How do I start a Kickstart to stop this product from being made???? Dum dum dum dum dummmm..

I never make comments, but this thing is so stupid and wasteful that it warrants a stamp of disapproval from me.

Seriously stupid project.

Too bad it takes a kickstarter account to comment.

But from the video comment about safety. . .(seriously?) “bag buddy distributes weight evenly on your bicycle.”

Really? The amount of crap you put in the bags distributes the weight not the foolish clips on the bars…..a roll of TP in one bag and sixer of brew in the other isn’t weight evenly distributed.

and on and on. . . . .hey…let’s see that example of hard turns (and short stops) with something other than tissues in the bags. . . .

and lastly. . .the point about putting the bags at the ends of the bars…woohoo….let’s amplify the pendulum on a lever effect! wheeee!!

Half serious question. If you donate to the kick-start for this product could you be found liable in inevitable injury suits that will follow?

Yes, this is hilariously stupid. But I can understand it, since I too used to carry grocery bags on my bars. Did so for years until last July, when I accidentally sucked one into my front wheel while riding to the Wednesday night crit. I had the worst wreck I can remember in an entire lifetime of bike racing…

I do that with 30packs of beer all the time. It’s awesome. The danger makes it more awesome.

This product is a great idea, and with most bicycle accessories you as the customer assume responsibility.

From a legal standpoint:

The Bag Buddy users are fully aware of the risks and hazards connected with the use of the product, including physical injury and elect to voluntarily participate in its activity, knowing that the associated physical activity may be hazardous to its users and to property.

Hope that helps

I’m gonna Kickstart bags of my own poo. That seems to be what most folks are coming up with. Seeing how I’m full of it, I might as well convince someone else that mine is worth investing in.

Panniers.

It might be time for Bikerumor to instigate a “no kickstarter” policy. Seriously, they’re pretty much all terrible. I guess it’s entertaining, though.

The answer when the wife ask you to stop by the store or the Mexican restaurant when you don’t have a backpack, rack, or panniers available is, “Honey, can you please do it? I’ve got nowhere to put that stuff.” Simple.

I have begged off of carrying stuff home when I don’t feel like it’s a good idea. And I would never ask anyone else to do something they felt was unsafe, but I have noticed this when anyone talks about about bike safety: The bare minimum safety requirements are whatever the person speaking does. Anything less is foolhardy. Often anything more is overkill. Everyone has the perfect level of safety nailed down, not just for themselves, but for everyone.
Sure, there are better ways to carry stuff. I endorse them. I use them. I sometimes leave the house without them. I don’t think this is a product that wants to replace anyone’s touring gear. But l know I’m not the only one to bike home from the store with a bag that he didn’t have anywhere to stow. I at least have the Kickstarter guy for company. Even though there seems to be a vocal set who feels that it is certain death to carry a grocery bag home on your handlebars, I know it’s not an uncommon practice for some people. This is a product for those people. To make it easier. Maybe a little safer even. For the ones who haven’t already died from reckless grocery bag portaging, that is.

I’ve had Chinese take-out ordered to my office for 20 years, in the rain, snow, you name it, and those delivery guys have never spilled a drop. I bet they laugh at this gadget (and his overly-tight hipster jeans).

Nope.

why dont u just wear a backpack? i find that stupid

Two things:

1. I’m pretty sure riding in NYC with anything dangling off the bars like this is illegal.

2. We have a customer here that is a lifelong cyclist that broke his neck riding with bags hanging off the bars when they went into his front wheel.

Bonus:
It’s also illegal here to ride on the sidewalk, or the wrong way on a one way like he does through this whole video. But I guess that’s beside the point.

Nay.

Danger, Run and Hide,
I did not read all the comments but I still have the scars on my face and knuckles from doing my “lip stand”
36 years ago when the plastic bag with my McDonalds uniform found its way between my fork and spokes.
The idea gives me shivers.