Schwinn Quick Release Wire Basket






Description


The product is Schwinn Quick Release Wire Basket.

Features


  • Ergonomic removable handle for easy carrying
  • Weather-resistant construction
  • Mounts easily to handlebars
  • Ideal for holding shopping bags and other personal items while riding

Customer Reviews


1 out of 5 stars JUNK
Pam

The bracket holding this basket to the bike is made of plastic. It broke only after using it 4 times. When it broke the basket came crashing down in the middle of an intersection, during rush hour traffic. All of my belongs were sprawled across the road. DO NOT BUY THIS BASKET

5 out of 5 stars GREAT BASKET!
Dana Jackson

This is the best bicycle basket on the market. It's sturdy, portable, and easy to install. The coating on the wire is almost like a powder-coating, great application. The installation instructions were a little awkward, but once you figure out which is the front and which is the back, it's a matter of screwing it together--easy. Highly recommend. Go with the Schwinn.

1 out of 5 stars Great basket, just don't use it on a bike!
Jennifer L. Rinehart

Picture it, Memorial Day 2011. The sky is a perfect robin's egg blue, the temperature a balmy 78, I'm riding down a hill next to a lovely, wildflower strewn park. Picnickers are lounging on quilts and fluffy tailed squirrels are darting around trees looking for crispy little squirrel snacks. My husband and son are just a few feet behind me. We've had a perfect day, a trip to our favorite downtown theater, a walk around said downtown, followed by a relaxing ride home.My Schwinn Quick Release Wire Basket is on the front of my bike, secured (or so I thought) by the attached handlebar bracket thingamajig (don't know the name of it). My sweatshirt, a half empty water bottle and a nearly empty container of milkduds are in the basket when everything goes horribly, tragically wrong. I go over a bump. Not a big bump, just a small up jutting portion of concrete, the basket flies up, almost coming off the bracket thingamajig. My water bottle flies out and, as if time itself slows down, I have just enough time to reach forward, one handed of course, I'm riding a bike, and push the water bottle back down.This is when time speeds up, or else normalizes back to regular speed. The basket slips completely off of the bracket thingamajig, hitting my front tire. I'm heading down a hill, but slowly, I'm not a thrill seeker, so there was that at least, the one bright spot in what happened next and probably what kept me from incurring greater injuries.The basket hits the tire, hard enough to jar it a little to the side, I only had one hand on the handlbar, so I reflexively squeezed the brake, hard, to avoid hitting the basket and my bright blue water bottle as they tumbled towards the pavement and my approaching front tire.Read more ›

5 out of 5 stars Love this basket!
virginia

Love it. Fits my new bike. Bigger than my old basket. I like the button release feature a lot more than I thought I would. I thought it might make it not as sturdy, but it didn't. Quite a deal!!

1 out of 5 stars Plastic - Doesn't fit.
T M

Bracket is made of plastic and barely fits the handle bar. Installed it, and after adjusting the basket, the screw just came off. Can't put the screw back 'cause the thread inside the bracket is stripped.Before you buy, make sure the bracket fits your bike's handle bar.

5 out of 5 stars Perfect basket!
S. Scherer

I highly recommend the basket, lightweight and EASY installation of bracket on my non Schwinn beach bike. Basket attaches and detaches without a problem, looks great , too!

5 out of 5 stars Functional Design, Wellmade, Easy to Install and Use
teknozen

I admit I was a tad wary of the quick-release handlebar mount on this bike basket, but the price seemed reasonable enough to give it a try.Although made of some sort of tough polymer, the mounting bracket has proved to be be plenty strong and stable for any sort of load I'd ever consider balancing off my handlebars, which means probably not much over 20 pounds. Yet that's enough for a moderate bag of mixed groceries.The mount was simple to install with the supplied screws in well under 5 minutes with only a Phelps screwdriver, and when the basket is empty, the quick release bracket works just fine. Trying to guide a loaded basket back onto the mount, however, is usually more trouble than it's worth. What this means is that if you detach the basket for your shopping, be sure to also bring along a bag for the groceries. Then take the bag out of the basket before you attempt to re-secure it on the handlebars. Piece of cake.The basket itself is all metal and appears to be holding up just fine. As I mentioned, while I was initially unsure about the heavy-duty plastic mounting bracket, in five months of daily miscellaneous chores, everything looks good as new.

1 out of 5 stars missing parts
clau

How frustrating is it to mount something only to find out that parts are missing! As with others the rubber shims were not included! Crappy basket, crappy company. Beware!