From Chris Bruntlett:
We recently purchased our Christmas Tree and brought it home through the use of our new cargo bike. The story about our adventure was published on Vancouver Is Awesome on Monday, and has been receiving a positive response, prompting us to create a crowdsourced album on Facebook featuring other families and individuals (from as far away as Japan and Australia) doing the same thing.
In contrast, we were recently sent an image from easy Financial, a high interest loan company, that in no fewer words states that in order to do things like get a Christmas tree you need a car.
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Very festive. I like the blue lights.
I have a small bike trailer (basically a large, plastic, lidded, box on a frame constructed of PVC plumbing pipe), that I bought about 12 years ago from a company on Union Street for about $150. I don’t have far to go to get a tree (maybe 2 km), but bungeeing the stump end to the rear rack and supporting the body of the tree on the box lid works just fine year after year when your route is on quiet residential streets.
The simplest of trailers really expands the usefulness of a bike – cats to the vet (in a carrier of course :), major grocery/liquor store shops, the occasional bag of mushroom manure (and even a couple of fruit trees) for the garden from a nearby nursery (or not-so-nearby, if you’re feeling like an expedition along the Central Valley Greenway on a summer day). I also use it to drop off the lawn mower for sharpening (handle removed), and have brought home desk-top computers, printers, speakers, etc. – just avoiding the rainiest days and taping a plastic bag over the box.
I know, it’s ‘eccentric’, but it works rather ridiculously well, and there’s no real reason to do it any other way.