A friend of ours who has also gone carless passed along this video of a guy using his sport utility bike (SUB) to take care of some typical household errands. Sarah and I just use racks and saddlebags which take care of most of our needs but with kids and all that it would be much more complicated. We've had friends that do it with bike trailers but this hitchless trailer thing looks cool.
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