Utility cycling - who'd have thunk it.

[ufkacbln]

SNAP!

My wife is disabled and uses an electric wheelchair or mobility scooter to get around when shopping or going in to town

She can use the modified Gekko electric trike to get around, but was limited when we arrived anywhere

The Christiania allows me to carry the "portable" scooter and then we unload this at the destination. However with the Christiania not being a lightweight and the scooter weighing some 60 kg including the battery, I also went for an electrical assist

 

[Ganymede]

That's such a great solution @Cunobelin! Those mobility scooters are heavy though, no wonder you went for electric assist. I bet you're quite a feature on the roads of Gosport!

 

[ufkacbln]

That's such a great solution @Cunobelin! Those mobility scooters are heavy though, no wonder you went for electric assist. I bet you're quite a feature on the roads of Gosport!

.... not a good one according to some!

The Christiania can be a rolling roadblock on some urban roads, but then again its road presence is an advantage

 

[GrumpyGregry]

A well known cycling blogger and cycle embassy of GB leader type who lives locally seems to have got himself a butcher boys bike to supplement his Brompton.

 

[ufkacbln]

I have always wanted a "babe magnet"

Then I bought the Delibike, which works as a babe magnet in a way that amuses my wife

Whenever I am out it attracts elderly ladies reminiscing about how boyfriends had taken home as young girls in the basket of one

 

[Sara_H]

My shopping habits have completely changed since I got rid of my car.

I used to do a big weekly shop by car at the big tesco about 2 miles away. Now I mostly buy in dribs and drabs on my way home from work at the Aldi which is on my route whether I bus or bike.

I occasionally do a "big shop" at Morrisons, which is easy to get to by bike, just over a mile away across my local park and find I can pack quite a lot into two panniers and my basket with loo roll etc bunjeed across the rack, easily enough for a weeks worth of groceries if I exclude a few "luxuries" (that I can easily live without).

Even more occasionally, I will borrow OH's car and go to tesco, on these days I buy the big sacks of dry dog food that the idiot labrador lives on, also tend to stock up on tinned foods etc on these occasions.

 

[Ganymede]

My shopping habits have completely changed since I got rid of my car.

I used to do a big weekly shop by car at the big tesco about 2 miles away. Now I mostly buy in dribs and drabs on my way home from work at the Aldi which is on my route whether I bus or bike.

I occasionally do a "big shop" at Morrisons, which is easy to get to by bike, just over a mile away across my local park and find I can pack quite a lot into two panniers and my basket with loo roll etc bunjeed across the rack, easily enough for a weeks worth of groceries if I exclude a few "luxuries" (that I can easily live without).

Even more occasionally, I will borrow OH's car and go to tesco, on these days I buy the big sacks of dry dog food that the idiot labrador lives on, also tend to stock up on tinned foods etc on these occasions.

The run through the park to Morrison's sounds good! Alas my nearest proper supermarket is 5 miles away with some fairly noticeable uppy-downy bits, but the farm shop is only 3 miles and there is a Spar in the same village.

 

[Sara_H]

The run through the park to Morrison's sounds good! Alas my nearest proper supermarket is 5 miles away with some fairly noticeable uppy-downy bits, but the farm shop is only 3 miles and there is a Spar in the same village.

Yes I'm very lucky, it's two minutes to the park entrance at my side, pleasant pootle through the park, then two minutes to Morrisons from the park entrance at the other side.
The park is also the route to my Mum's house, so I usually go that way to take the dog (she often dog sits while I'm at work). Unfortunately unlit at night so take the long way round after dark though.