People on such bikes are a common sight in the Twin Cities as residents increasingly embrace them for shopping and family outings — sometimes taking the extreme step of replacing a car with a cargo bike.
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.
How much groceries can you fit on a bike? I usually leave with 4 or 5 large bags, and I’m single.
@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)
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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.
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.
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.
How many times do you go get groceries each week though?
Once. Hence my thinking they must be small