Bag carrier for bicycles

Claim 1

A carrying apparatus for quick and easy attachment to and detachment from the rigid uprights of the rear fork of a bicycle frame and above the crossbar which interconnects the uprights, comprising a single length of semirigid wire having a middle portion defining a rearwardly extending, substantially horizontal load-carrying loop and the semirigid wire also having forward end portions defining attachment legs for securing to the fork uprights, each leg being free of the other leg and having spaced upper and lower substantially semicicular and oppositely oriented load-carrying bends to lie against and receive a respective fork upright therein, the lower bend bearing forwardly against the rear face of the fork upright and downwardly on the crossbar, and the upper load-carrying bend bearing rearwardly against the forward face of the fork upright and preventing downward tipping of the horizontal loop, each leg also having an upright spacer section extending between the upper and lower bends and extending along and in closely spaced relation to the spacer section of the other leg to lie between the fork uprights and to bear outwardly against the respective fork uprights in a direction transversely of the bicycle frame, and the upper and lower extremities of the legs adjacent the bends facing inwardly in confronting relation with the spacer sections to bear inwardly against the fork upright in a direction transversely of the bicycle frame, the upper extremities of the legs extending substantially horizontally rearwardly to the load-carrying loop and extending forwardly and thence transversely inwardly toward each other and into said upper bends to bear rearwardly against and to embrace and confine the uprights of the rear fork and position the loadcarrying loop well above the lower bends of the legs which bear downwardly on the fork crossbar.