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[–] 9 points 4 months ago (6 children)

How much groceries can you fit on a bike? I usually leave with 4 or 5 large bags, and I'm single.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    About 2 weeks worth for 1 person, about 1 weeks worth for 2 people. On just a normal bicycle with 4 panniers. A cargo bike can double that.

    Once you hit large families, you can have multiple people biking to the grocery store together.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago*

    Our Urban Arrow fits 3, maybe 4 kids (ours are 7 and 4, and their friends). We literally moved our entire apartment with that bike.

    We also have a cube hybrid longtail. I've put maybe 6 bags of groceries in the side saddle, with my front still open and two kids on the back.

    Urban Arrow bakfiets piled high with stuff, in front of a storage unit filled with stuff

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Bag size varies a lot so an absolute number doesn't really help much. 4/5 bags sounds like an insane amount of food for 1 person, so I suspect the bags we get are bigger.

    My regular bike has 70L of storage in pannier bags. Cargo bikes will be holding hundreds.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    @artyom @silence7 i went to the next town over for groceries because that grocery has stuff the closer ones don't(this is on a cargo trailer I built but a proper cargo bike would have... better capability, actually)mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/

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