Moving BY bike...
04-22-09, 06:35 PM
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Moving BY bike...
Wish I could move my stuff into my new place by bike. After all, it's only .7 miles away. But getting the bed into a set of panniers presents a particular challenge. I know, I know. Man up.
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04-22-09, 06:53 PM
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bike trailer?! or figure out how to hook a regular 5x10 trailer to the bike! If you do take pics, bragging rights for life... hope ya got a triple
04-22-09, 07:36 PM
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I never thought that I'd say this but: "If you can move by bicycle you need to get a lot more stuff."
04-22-09, 07:43 PM
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I think RG has it backwards. If you can't move my bike, you have too much stuff.
Then again, I've reached the point in my life where I hire movers, and I don't give a damn how they move it, as long as I don't have to. All that packin' and totin' is too much like work.
From the Bikes At Work web site: Hauling Cargo by Bike. Yes, that's a refrigerator he's towing.
Edit: This is closer to the topic: Household Move by Bike
Then again, I've reached the point in my life where I hire movers, and I don't give a damn how they move it, as long as I don't have to. All that packin' and totin' is too much like work.
From the Bikes At Work web site: Hauling Cargo by Bike. Yes, that's a refrigerator he's towing.
Edit: This is closer to the topic: Household Move by Bike
04-22-09, 08:48 PM
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This blog was started by a "car free" bike shop in Iowa City. They hauled all the materials, tools, fixtures, etc. to the store by bike and built the shop themselves.
https://30thcentury.wordpress.com/
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04-22-09, 08:56 PM
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wussy. that is all.
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04-23-09, 02:27 AM
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04-23-09, 03:55 AM
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To get to where you are I might have to go east........
But if I could, you know I'd be there to help tote that stuff........
Really.......
But if I could, you know I'd be there to help tote that stuff........
Really.......
04-23-09, 05:45 AM
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Such a move is frustrating. I remember moving two blocks once. I could see the new digs from the old digs, and it was so frustrating to think that everything had to be packed, loaded, unloaded, and unpacked just as if I were moving across the country. It seemed like with such a short distance it should be easier, but it is not so. The one good thing about any move is that you get a chance to do a pretty good inventory of your stuff and do some cleaning out of things you don't really want/need. I tend to agree with TSL on this one... hire someone and let them do it. Heck, you could lead the truck to the new digs on your bike as a ritual designed to bring good karma to the new chapter in your life.
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04-23-09, 06:37 AM
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Maybe if enough of us say "I'd help you move but I live to far away." and DG gets a dime for each one, pretty soon, maybe he can hire a moving company to move him and we will all have helped him move.
04-23-09, 07:50 AM
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We have only moved three times in last 32 years. The absolute worst move was six blocks away. We were remodeling the new place while living in the old place, which was paid for, so there was no time pressure. So everytime we went to the new place it behooved us to move something.
We refer to it as a "two lampshades at a time" type of move.
We refer to it as a "two lampshades at a time" type of move.
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04-23-09, 08:48 AM
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Wed in '75, bought our house in '77.....
I pity the poor fool who has to sort through all the junk my bride and three daughters has amassed over the years.....but whoever gets to sort through my treasures will be very fortunate indeed.
I pity the poor fool who has to sort through all the junk my bride and three daughters has amassed over the years.....but whoever gets to sort through my treasures will be very fortunate indeed.
04-23-09, 08:59 AM
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Just back from Nepal - astonishing what gets carried on single speed tricycles
And in Jakarta I saw 2 examples of deliveries on a powered 2 wheelers that stick in my memory, both on little Honda 50s
One was a filled aquarium with water and fishes about 5 feet wide by 3 feet tall. The other was a plate glass sheet as big as a shop window balanced on the knees of the sidesaddle pillion chap who was holding it with rubber suckers, way out in front and behind and above the bike
And in Jakarta I saw 2 examples of deliveries on a powered 2 wheelers that stick in my memory, both on little Honda 50s
One was a filled aquarium with water and fishes about 5 feet wide by 3 feet tall. The other was a plate glass sheet as big as a shop window balanced on the knees of the sidesaddle pillion chap who was holding it with rubber suckers, way out in front and behind and above the bike
04-23-09, 09:23 AM
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One was a filled aquarium with water and fishes about 5 feet wide by 3 feet tall. The other was a plate glass sheet as big as a shop window balanced on the knees of the sidesaddle pillion chap who was holding it with rubber suckers, way out in front and behind and above the bike
Otherwise, that is 'unbelievable'. Which is probably what you said when you saw it.
04-23-09, 11:40 AM
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A friend of mine tells a story about how when he married his first wife and moved into her house, he had a Rambler station wagon. Everything he owned fit in that Rambler. 7 years later, when she kicked him out, he still had the Rambler station wagon and everything he owned still fit into it.
Progress? You decide.
Progress? You decide.
04-23-09, 03:17 PM
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I've participated in 3 bike moves. All the movers were youngsters who had not yet developed a collection of vintage bowling balls or granite coffee tables.
Here's a news segment from one of them (I'm not in it, btw):
https://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/a...anPowered_Move
Here's a news segment from one of them (I'm not in it, btw):
https://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/a...anPowered_Move
