• Paragone@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Cargo-bikes exist.

    With reason.

    Just as many not-on-public-transport families, in North America, have both a tiny get-around vehicle and a minivan, for loading everybody-and-everything into,

    having a light riding-for-the-joy-of-riding bike & a heavier “truck” bike does make sense, for many.

    ( do have a pair of locks for the truck-bike, so you can lock both ends of it, though. )

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    • pearable@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      I hope rentable cargo bikes show up in my city soon. I can’t justify spending the money on a bike I’ll only occasionally use. Currently I’ll rent a car instead but there are plenty of times when a cargo bike would work fine

    • Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run
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      6 months ago

      I’m working on repairing a truck-trike, that was gifted to me when a friend was clearing out “junk”. In it’s original form it’s designed to carry up to 500 pounds. We’ll see how that all works out this Summer. ;-)