Biking to places other than work?

[tulip]

I just today ordered a Croozer cargo trailer!!!! There is a large shopping plaza just 2 miles from me (bike path the whole way there) with 3 grocery stores, a Home Depot and pretty much everything else in between. I've been going to the store nearly every day but I can only get what fits in a backpack so if I need charcoal or soda it has to be the car for now. I was heading off to HD one day and my neighbor asked me to pick up a 12 ft length of 2x4 lumber. I seriously tried to figure out how to do it!!! Of course he was joking. Now if only I could reduce my 125 mile, one way,commute!

I like the looks of that!

[mupedalpusher]

I love my Carry Freedom trailer, it's a flatbed. You can strap nearly anything to it. I typically carry a really large plastic tub for hauling stuff. I like the fact that it comes apart incredibly easy and I can store it in my office or at home. Many of the other trailers don't have this feature.

[boy in a kilt]

I have this fantasy about an xtracycle. SGTiger has promised me one when I get back from Iraq. My boss discourages me from riding to work because, as he says, "You never know when you'll need to go pick up a pump or something."

I want to go to our pump supplier, pick up a pump and strap it to the Xtracycle, along with as much other crap as I can put on there. Then I want him to feast his eyes on it.

[tulip]

With the Bikes At Work trailer, I can hook up my kayak (um, well, when I get one)! I live very close to the river. Cool!

[FlyingScot]

I got my Croozer trailer today!!!! Man that was fast. Unfortunately it got damaged in shipping (thanks Fed-Ex) but I did at least get a chance to look at it in person and it's really terrific. Easy to set up, sturdy and it can be converted to a handcart so I can take it into the grocery store and use it for a shopping cart. No worries about locking it up. It has a quick-release hitch so no need for tools. Fed-Ex (should be Fed-Up Express if you ask me) is picking up the damaged one tomorrow and I should have the new one by Friday. Oh and I got a new job today!!!!! Yeah me! Sorry, I'm a little giddy.

[cyclingmama]

I bike to the gym. Its 2.5 miles on heavy-traffic roads, 3.8 on back roads. It takes me about 12 minutes as opposed to 4 in the car. As a previous poster noted, it just seems wrong to hop in the car and drive to the gym to exercise. On the weekends there are always a few other bikes in the bike rack, but at 5:30am I'm always the only one.

I really want to get a trailer and try grocery shopping by bike, but I usually take one of the kids with me to the grocery store. I would bike to many more places if not for the kids (ages 2 and 5). I know I can put them in the trailer, but to go just about anywhere from my house you have to travel a major road with high speed traffic. The shoulders are wide and usually clean, and I feel totally safe riding that road myself, but the thought of riding that road with the kids just makes me waaaayyy too nervous.

[tulip]

I got my Croozer trailer ...it can be converted to a handcart so I can take it into the grocery store and use it for a shopping cart.

Could you use it like a wheelbarrow in the garden? I'd love to minimize the things I have to buy once I get my house, and if this can double as a garden cart, I'm definitely getting one.

[FlyingScot]

Could you use it like a wheelbarrow in the garden? I'd love to minimize the things I have to buy once I get my house, and if this can double as a garden cart, I'm definitely getting one.

I think you could use it for plants and stuff but I wouldn't haul dirt. The sides are a cloth material that may not hold up well to the weight of things like dirt and mulch. It does, however, easily fold down into about a 6 inch deep package that would fit under a bed (just for reference). Otherwise I think you could do just about anything with this thing.