mcours2006

Show off your fully loaded grocery-getter/stuff-hauler/mule/donkey. Trailers welcome too

Here's mine on the weekend to the store:

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I estimated about 25 pounds worth of stuff in those three bags, plus maybe another couple of pounds in my backpack...which you can't see.

And this one last winter during an ice storm:
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52telecaster

good looking bike.

Khb

Stromer ST-1. I've also got a cargo trailer (burley flat bed)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1...TRKT3NWSUVaS0k

mcours2006

Puts mine to shame.

I'm curious how the bike handles with the front panniers fully loaded. I've never considered putting on a front rack. Having been in a crash where there was a front end catastrophic failure I'm quite leery of having anything close to the front wheel.

Khb

Quite well with a reasonable load. The Stromer is naturally back heavy and heavy rear panniers make that more extreme. So I found I rather liked a bit of weight in the front....but...

The bad thing about the front panniers (loaded) is that the kick stand is unable to hold the bike, especially in gusty wind. So despite it working quite well, I mostly hold the front in reserve for big shopping trips, or if I'm towing my younger son (no room for rear pannies with the weehoo tow bar).

I-Like-To-Bike

Bike trailer on several trips: taking empty pop and beer cans/bottles to recycle site, taking old electronic stuff to Goodwill, returning from store with full soda pop bottles. Bike and trailer are garage sale finds used for at least the last 10 years by me with no problems Total cost =$15.

52telecaster

now that is frugal!

Harhir

I have to get me one of these old kiddie trailers as well. Currently I use a Burley Travoy and panniers on various bikes.

mcours2006

I'd love to have one of these trailers. I could see myself using it a few times a year, but we have no room to store such a thing, and hence my second BBQ propane tank remains empty.

Reynolds 

A big box and some pallets for recycling on my older frankenutility bike:

Beachbumer

Maiden voyage to the grocery store.

Dan Burkhart 

Costco run

flangehead

Picked up groceries on the way home from work.

mcours2006

Man! I'd had to have to stop at the bottom of a hill with those two rigs!

mcours2006

Too damn nice to be considered a beast.

mcours2006

This reminds me of the family in downtown that was featured in something. I think you posted it, actually. His custom built bike for a family of four cost something like 12k.

Reynolds 

Actually the box was quite light, having only some other boxes inside. The route for the pallet load was flat, otherwise I'd walked too.

Dan Burkhart 

Yep. I had a hand in building and modifying the bike you referenced. Story here.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...-one-bike.html

jrickards

I can't watch youtube at work here but I read the article, very, very cool.

Dan Burkhart 

Hello in Sudbury. My wife is a Sudbury girl. The bridge over hwy 69 at Estaire Rd is named in honor of her dad.

jrickards

Hi Dan. So, he was a police officer. I remember seeing the name on the bridge but I forget it. I don't know if it is typical around the province but a number of our bridges are named after police officers (but I'm not aware of any female officers who have a bridge named after them).

I was raised in Mississauga near Bloor/Dixie before I moved to Sudbury in 1985 where I met and married my wife 30 yrs ago. I like being within a few minutes drive (or 20 minutes ride) from nature. We live near the old Memorial Hospital.

KD5NRH

Dan Burkhart 

He was a Sudbury cop, shot and killed in the line of duty, Oct 14, 1965. My wife was 10 years old.

jrickards

My condolences to her.

bugly64

Stopped for lunch at In-n-out after grocery shopping.
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