Supermarket Street Sweep 2016: racing around the city collecting groceries by bike for the SF Food Bank.
This was perhaps the 4th time I’d done it– after collecting 20lbs of groceries in a santa suit in 2010, 100lbs the following year, and 156lbs with two large custom panniers and a backpack in 2013, I took a few years off and made a modest effort this year, picking up 152 lbs with a similar setup. My friend Dave repurposed his baby trailer and lugged in an even larger haul.
As always, it was a good day– a bit of exercise, some pathfinding, a good cause, and a change to eyeball the wide range of cargo bikes and trailers other people brought. I’m sure this subconsciously influenced my decision to impulsively bid on a cargo bike at an auction the following week…