As a former VC, I only use my "training" to take the lane, extravagantly, when the bike lane is blocked, or when I am carrying/towing a load that would be inappropriately large for sharing space with ordinary bicycles. It's a long shot, but I hope it causes some drivers to think, a little.

Logged in to Twitter to retrieve these worthy images from a poster session long ago: #commuting #teleportation #biking

I had a lovely ride from cone deploy to Cambridge Common; I came across Jeff, the owner of this Frances Mixtehaul ( www.flickr.com/photos/jmuir... ) and children Francis (?) and I think Ben. (Francis was easy because I called out "wow, that's a Frances!" and she yelled back "I'm Francis!")

My small contribution to a recent family bike ride; haul all the traffic cones, to add protection where it was missing. I am not really sure how much it weighed, but it was a lot, and I was happy to have an e-assist.

Feel free to use this bike lane. Here, I stick to the sidewalk. I don't think you've made an adequate case for me to "fuck off"; your actual quarrel is with another person. maps.app.goo.gl/dkRDMTtGTG4c...

Kinda disgusting, but I am just the messenger, Bezos runs a system that leaves bottle of urine beside the road.

or a trailer. I may have become the designated cone-hauler for family bike ride events, because the e-bike and trailer can haul the whole load in a single (sedate and ponderous) load.

These three bikes together accumulated 50,000 miles of utility travel over 20 years. People grossly overestimate the necessity of their personal automobiles, of any size.

Car stuff, and bike stuff. Compare:

Moved a child out of her near-Boston apt yesterday-today, biked stuff home last night after work, then drove over to pick up all the stuff that would not benefit from being rattled on our lovely roads, then returned on bike to get all the lumpy stuff that would be harder to fit into a Honda Civic.

You could spend months-to-year getting into shape like I did (20 years now, 50,000 miles, it leaves a mark). Or, you could just get an e-assist cargo bike, or add an e-assist to a bike you have. Or buy a small e-assist bike, add a trailer, easier to store.

I am trying to figure out what stage I am at. I was already hauling serious cargo on a cargo bike and/or trailer, and then I added a decent after-market e-assist. The bike is pretty much replacing most uses of a pickup truck at this point.

Pfft, I have a sanctimonious trailer.

After dropping that load and on my way home, passed some recently cut tree. I was compelled to stop, firewood abhors an empty trailer.

I helped out at the Family Bike Ride this morning in Cambridge/Boston. Turns out probably the most helpful think I did, was to load all the cones onto the trailer on my bike, and haul them to the organizer's home -- for him, it is two trips, for me, just one.

Not sure if they care about not-a-CA resident me, but I sent words anyway. I'm trying to figure out how to call out the default assumption that people on bikes are irresponsible (and thus need mechanically enforced limits) but drivers are not (and only need signs and artisanal enforcement).

Sources: US freshwater consumption in 2015. USGS, pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1894/d/pp... Data center (direct) water consumption projected for 2028, high estimate. Berkeley Lab, eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/defaul... There is of course other factors, details, etc, but the basic number is NOT LARGE.

From a recent vacation, a battery-powered trolley recharging at stations. It does not spend much time doing this, and yes, these things exist.

It depends. 20 years on longtails, so a little experience. At work, street parking is no problem, there's plenty of room in front of the rack. Other times, because the bike is so heavy (also, pitlock security nuts on the wheels) I just lock it to itself, if I am not there for terribly long. but:

So, able 65-year-old here. Far too many people are just lazy or not very good at snow shoveling or just don't care. I think of myself as lazy, but obviously I have overriding feelings about snow and sidewalk access. That plowed snow can be removed with the right shovel and a determined shoveler.

Width is more likely a problem, if it doesn't fit between the wheels then it has be propped on top of them somehow. The length and weight are well within what I've towed in the past. (I didn't get the 8' trailer because that would be a pain to store and harder to carry.)

And of course it's a Big Dummy. I want his chain guard.

Don't think it's as large as yours, but this is how I helped tow a sick Urban Arrow to service.

I want to see how BlueSky handles vector drawing upload and display. There may be a bot in my future, if this works.

And more. It does get used.

I have my own trailer, initially bought mostly for transporting a snow blower, but it works for other things. The actual transportation requires a little exertion, but it is far cheaper than a truck, and easier to load (and I don't use it that often, just, sometimes).

Here's a couple more from that same day. It's one company that I think was initially local, but now seems to have grander ambitions: www.dutchx.com/solutions/ I think the cargo bikes are just for first/last mile in NYC.