Dublin, like a lot of big cities, has a lot of delivery riders that are delivering food (and now groceries) by bicycle. Pretty much all of them are using electric bikes, for a number of reasons: Riding in comfort I’ve noticed as well that the delivery riders also prepare well for the weather and spending […]
When someone visits a bike shop in Ireland – either online or in person – to look for a bike, it seems that the vast majority of bikes on display are aimed towards cycling as a sport. But what if that person is looking for a bike for transport and not sport? I did a […]
A lot of people say that they need to use a car to do grocery shopping. This is normally because they want to do one big shop for 1-2 weeks worth of food in one go. However, it would be totally possible to shop by bike instead, if they were willing to modify their shopping […]
One common misconception is that people need to drive a car in order to transport their shopping home. They cling to the view that we need to let people drive into the heart of the city in order to keep city centre shops alive. However this assumption doesn’t bear out scrutiny. Cyclists and pedestrians may […]
