Re: Top Ten Reasons to Own a Trike

DougC wrote:

> A touring bike can carry a lot, but it has expensive bags that can get
> damaged or stolen while you're in the grocery store, and you have to
> arrange the contents ideally. Touring bags are built for stuffing
> clothes in, not cans of soup.
> 
> A cargo bike has a big basket bolted to it, and you toss in whatever
> junk you're wanting to move and you roll. No strapping down necessary,
> minimal arranging necessary.

Wot Doug Sez: in terms of weight and collective bulk of small things
(like groceries) I can get most of what my freighter will take on my
touring 'bent... but I take the freighter shopping because it's
enormously easier to just take the crate out of the grocery trolley and
put it in the load bin on the freighter than faff about arranging
everything into 4 panniers and then loading the bike up with those
individually.

Pete.
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