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Bikes generally fail pretty miserably at trucking children around. You're pretty much stuck going right to one of the giant dutch cargo bikes to carry kids and
by ben7799 7y ago
Bikes generally fail pretty miserably at trucking children around.
You're pretty much stuck going right to one of the giant dutch cargo bikes to carry kids and all their paraphernalia, and once you drop off your kid now you're riding a very slow very heavy bike that will take much longer to ride to your office and leave you much sweatier, especially since there's no flat easy bike infrastructure like the Netherlands.
I'm a long time cyclist and I've done stuff like take my kid to daycare in a Burley trailer and lock the trailer at the day care and then ride the bike to my office, then go and bike to the daycare and hook the Burley back up but this stuff takes a tremendous amount of time. It's a LOT harder than bike commuting as a single person with a more flexible schedule. Day cares/schools put a lot of requirements on when you drop off and when you pick up which make it much harder to shift your schedule around to make bike commuting work as well.
- bobthepanda 7y agoElectric bikes these days have ranges of 40+ miles, and provide assistance to maintain 20-25 mph, which would solve the "slow, very heavy bike" issue.