{"id":2799,"date":"2024-08-05T19:35:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T01:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2024-08-08T18:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T00:02:35","slug":"cargo-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2024\/08\/05\/cargo-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cargo Bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m going to go ahead and say I was ahead of the curve on this one…<\/p>\n

I got curious about the phenomenon, which clearly has charmed one of society\u2019s more frazzled groups: parents of young children. According to one observer, this has been a steadily growing \u201cquiet movement\u201d for many years. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From ‘This is not a blip’: A quiet movement grows on San Francisco’s streets<\/a><\/p>\n

We bought our cargo bike in 2013<\/strong>, and in 2012 I was test riding a few. We bought ours without e-assist, which was… a lot of work.<\/p>\n

We added the e-assist in 2016, which was a game changer. But, the kids got older, and I couldn’t justify keeping it in the garage. We sold it in 2021 and I sill miss riding it around loaded with kids, dogs, groceries or whatever.<\/p>\n

It’s an amazing option for anyone with a reasonable “bike score” who’s looking for a car replacement. Highly recommend it for everything the article talks about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m going to go ahead and say I was ahead of the curve on this one… I got curious about the phenomenon, which clearly has charmed one of society\u2019s more frazzled groups: parents of young children. According to one observer, this has been a steadily growing \u201cquiet movement\u201d for many years. From ‘This is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-J9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}