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A colleague of a colleague and his solution to making deliveries in town...
Loads of up to 250kg.
Excellent! In a flat area that's a great idea.
I'd pay to see someone ride that fully loaded in West Yorkshire
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I would say that's where an ebike comes into its own.....
Or you grab yourself an etrailer....
https://pedelec-elektro-fahrrad.de/news/carla-cargo-bringt-lastenanhaenger-mit-e-antrieb/48260/
V-brakes on bike wheels only, and 250kg load plus rider. Safe as houses.
Not necessarily saying his set up is top notch, but the idea I think is brilliant.
We already have Deutsche Post and UPS using e-trikes to deliver in town.
Very good, and useful for bulky but not necessarily heavy loads that wouldn't fit on a conventional trailer.
Excellent!! And regarding hills... My mrs pulls our 5 year old twins, their bikes, their school stuff and picnics... all around north Bristol, using a Chariot (Thule) trailer and a bike with a Bosch CX motor (the ones they use in the mtbs). North Bristol is England's answer to San Francisco btw. Not just the hippies, but the hills I mean.
In the UK, we may have speed restrictions on our ebikes, but not torque restrictions.
but the idea I think is brilliant.
I agree with that.
How much stuff does get moved across town as opposed to the next city? Post C19 I'm wondering if we will see a move to more local supply, so making short journey and low carbon very viable.
lots of ebike / cargo bike deliveries all over europe.
to make it more effective in the UK we need proper enforcement of parking / waiting and loading regs. Every day ( under normal circumstances) I see vans delivering to local businesses breaking the law with where they stop.
Better weather and higher standards of driving would help too
Better weather and higher standards of driving would help too
The Dutch and the Danes manage to roll about on bikes throughout the year and the weather isn't much different to what the UK suffers.
I think it's more a question of infrastructure as opposed to weather....
UPS and Deutsche Post manage to ride year round despite the snow. The UPS trikes are partly covered with a large fairing. They have a large van that parks up somewhere convenient and a couple of trikes use it as a base until they are ready to move on to the next part of town.