I still have my almost-new Mongoose bags. They are hanging off the back of my wire shelving racks in my garage as storage bins.
. Rode just under 5 little miles around town today running errands 
. I'm getting the hang of it - it's been much easier than I anticipated! My only issue was Google maps - I was experimenting with it, and it routed me to the UPS store (for evil Amazon returns) via a fairly busy 4 lane street that I would need to cross traffic to make a left turn. It knew I was on the bike! Fortunately, the city is pretty small and I've lived here since 1976, so I knew how to take quieter parallel streets.
.. Once my cargo net arrives, I'll be able to stack stuff up higher and not sorry about it falling out or off!
I can ride a geared hub motor bicycle without power, and do most of the time unless the headwind is so bad my trip would take 6 hours without. Unpowered is not an option with Bosch drive. I also use power for the sixtieth to eightieth hill of my 27 mile commute. That hilly extension keeps me off 55 mph narrow Ste Rte 3. 3.7 hours of exercise and 24 miles twice weekly is enough. Plus a couple of 6 to 8 mile runs to groceries, hardwares, or church per week. I've lost 53 lb since I quit working & driving cars.So I ordered R&M Multicharger Mixte, loaded out with the cargo front carrier and side loaders and bags along the back
In the last year prior to getting this bike I would ride about 50 to 100 kilometres a month. Now I am averaging that a week, I’ve literally quadrupled my riding.
I feel stronger and fitter than I have in a while but the covid kilos are still persisting, although I suspect that might have to do with the beers I’m collecting
That’s so good!
In a word the problem is Addiction. When you ride you are flooded with endorphins. Then you become highly irritable as they fade. That is until you ride again. Rides progressively get longer, and longer also more frequent. You dream about bikes and become obsessive. You may not want to admit to others the extent and frequency of your riding adventures. The first step is coming clean, admitting to your self how much you ride your eBike. I did three long rides yesterday. There, I admit it. Because of eBikes I was able to ditch my car three-years-ago.
Everything you’ve just said is 100% accurate.
Forget that first part. The last part is all that matters
I moved my prescriptions to a Costco thats 10 miles further away (and in the opposite direction) than the one that was handling them before that was right on my way in to work. Same idea exactly! So I do my shopping there too and have a nice long ride out and back.
What I love in commuting with an electric bike is that I arrive to work clear-headed, refreshed, invigorated, and totally mellow. The poor commuters who arrive to work by car have been white knuckling it in bumper-to-bumper. Their armpits are soaked with stress sweat. They are angry and can't think straight. At the end of the day I get a mini-vacation and again arrive clear-headed and refreshed. They arrive home wiped-out and mean.
Who among this EBR community thinks that if there were a random experiment to see which is more efficacious, an established anti-depressant drug regimen, or daily riding of an eBike; that the the eBike riders would be the happier and healthier group after three-months? Two years? Which do you would be more cost effective, fun and better for the communities and families the two groups live within?
Just someI didn't find any other thread discussing using ebikes for chores, errands, or other types of "work", so, voila!
I'm normally a recreational rider, but in an attempt to be more environmentally friendly (and get some additional exercise), recently purchased a cargo trailer (Schwinn Day Tripper) for my bike (Giant La Free E+2) so I could begin using it for shopping and other chores and activities around town.
The first outing with the trailer was yesterday, and it was perfect! I'm looking forward to incorporating biking further into my daily routine.
There are still some logistical issues to work out, mainly having to do with security/anti theft measures. I do most of my grocery shopping on the military base nearby, where I feel confident just locking the bike, with trailer attached, to a post outside the store. Out in our little town, I'm not so sure. Do I remove the trailer from the bike and use it as a cart in the store (a bit unwieldy)? Do I come up with a way to lock the trailer to the bike? Do I need an alarm set up (will I even hear an alarm from the depths of Safeway???)?
Suggestions welcome!
Share experiences, pics and ideas for utilizing your bike in a "working" capacity here...
Here's my new set up:
for you. That's an impressive cargo you've got.
A real study on that would never get published. The pharmaceutical industry has trouble even beating the placebos for those types of drugs. They would be so badly beaten by something that actually makes people smile...
That's a beauty. Curved lines, bright chrome, whitewalls ... sounds like I'm talking about a corvette...
Give it some time and you might find yourself called 'a local legend ' for running errands with your ebike and trailer. There certainly won't be many like you in your hometown .Man, I'm feeling like a real weenie here with my regular old bike and little Schwinn trailer
After completing my returns, I headed over to the base to visit the exchange (department store) and commissary (grocery store). They are definitely lacking bike racks, but there was plenty of steel fence pipe to lock to
Again, didn't do a huge shop, but everything fit in the trailer - especially my very important half case of vino rosso
The morning was mild and sunny, perfect to be out on my bike, getting stuff done!
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There's one other guy, who lives on a boat at the city Marina
. I see him around 8AM most mornings, pedaling out to the grocery stores in the other side of town and back. He's hardier than I - hot or cold, rain or shine . I don't want to get my pretty blue bike or my cute little trailer messed up 
! Plus, the old lady with asthma thing...
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