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Why don’t we do things the easy way?

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 28, 2011

Today I nipped out to join Jane for lunch at Starbucks after she finished work (nice to get away from kids on school holiday). I checked when I was locking up my bike, which I can park right outside Starbucks, and it had taken me exactly 5 minutes to get there. As I looked around [...]

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The faster way from Asda

3 Comments Posted by on March 9, 2011

Circumstances meant that Jane and I arrived separately at Thurmaston Shopping Centre, she by car having been to see Mum on the other side of Leicester and me by Bullitt Cargobike. It gives an easy way to compare the two. Score 1 to the Bullitt for ease. I parked right outside Starbucks where we met [...]

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Snow problem for a bullitt cargobike

5 Comments Posted by on December 22, 2010

Today we have snow, Leciester has got off lightly but with some snow in the night and snow all morning we have maybe 5cm of snow. So it was a good opportunity to try by new Schwalbe winter tyre with studs. I had decided to only buy a front studded tyre. Maybe this was a [...]

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Oop’s trolley nearly too full for Bullitt

3 Comments Posted by on November 29, 2010

Just back from Asda. This trolley load: Just fitted in my Bullitt. Here we see it loaded at Asda (and nice not to have to push the trolley across miles of car park). At this point I was beginning to wonder if I need a cargo net to put over the top. But as you [...]

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Should I feel guilty about gloating?

Leave a Comment Posted by on November 20, 2010

Just been to Asda and wondering whether I should feel guilty because I enjoy it being so much faster and easier by cargo bike than by car. Asda is approx 1.5 miles from the centre of Syston. Today on a busy Saturday afternoon the car drivers were queuing onto the Thurmaston roundabout  and from there it was [...]

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