If you had a Brompton, you could fold it up and put it under your desk or in the staff locker room.
If you had a bakfiets, you could take the family shopping...
Too far for a Brompton. I had to google bakfiets lol. I can just see my wife sitting in one of those!
How far is too far? My longest single day on a Brompton (with touring load), was 80km... How about the electric Brompton?
She could ride one herself, and you could ride one, then you can get more shopping in the front with the kids. You could even add a trailer on the back if you need more space...
Over here large bakfiets with big boxes on the front, and a rain cover over the top, are used instead of school buses, with 8 or so kids taken to nursery/school.
Make it a pedal assist, and it's a lot easier to ride too.
I was thinking a Helios rather than a Bakfiets. It depends how many in the family and how big kids are. I don't see how you could get a second adult on a Bakfiets but presumably they could ride their own bike. Whoops, you're now a three-bike household!
Bakfiets is a generic term over here, just like hoover, or google. Covers any type of bike/trike with a big box on the front.
You can get large enough boxes on the front to take several people.
That's so funny! I hope you're not being serious lol. I don't live in Amsterdam by the way and just travel to the local market to buy cheese
When I lived in Canterbury I did my weekly shopping on a Brompton...
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Wow - it's a whole new world this 'second bike' thing isn't it. I think I'll just stick to the one ride on a Sunday. It's more simpler.