Re: Colnago Dream HP

On 8/18/2024 2:19 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:

cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:

Try bringing
home a week's groceries on a bike.
>

That’s a fairly car brain thought really for lots of folks a car isn’t
needed, car ownership in big cities certainly European is typically low, as
is ownership if one is disabled and so on.
 In my experience folks with Epilepsy and I’m almost certainly in contact
with many more than your self, is those who can’t drive are not housebound
even remotely the car is far from the only means of transport.
 Let alone even in fairly rural places get the bus to the supermarket once a
week as happens in the village I grew up in, or at least closest to, and
equally the supermarket home by taxi is common in rural areas.
 America is as ever rather lax of ie medical and driving regulations.
 Lastly as this is a cycling group you absolutely can get weekly shop home
by bike, it’s rather easier if one uses a cargo bike which tend to
comfortably have space and more, plus with E assist as most are now, and a
frame designed for load bearing its simply not a problem.
 I could certainly do a weekly shop as my commute bike has two panniers plus
bar bag and that is more than enough, but well I can walk to a number of
grocery stores and we tend to get deliveries every now and then.

FWIW, I've brought a week's worth of groceries home by bike countless times. I have two open-top panniers designed for shopping. When they're filled to the top, some of the load can usually be laid atop the rack and bungeed in place. It's really not a problem, especially since we both eat quite a bit less than we used to, which I think is normal at our age.
There were times I needed even more capacity - for example, hauling two kids' plus their backpacks. For that I used a trailer, customized for the job.
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