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I had to temporarily move out. It took a few trips to move all my belongings.

No electric, so rather slow speed, but thankfully very little traffic here.

In front of a stone house with a blue door. The trailers hold bin bags and green crates with another bicycle laid on top

The bike train on a road, carrying rather tall stacks of green crates, as well as other miscellaneous items

2 trailers connected to the bike. The front trailer has a stack of bicycles on it, and the rear trailer has green crates on top of which sits a cat. Another cat walks towards the camera

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[โ€“] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Perfectly suitable for that environment! Glad you can enjoy this lifestyle. My first thought was that many trailers on a bicycle, how would you go around street corners you'd have to make ridiculously wide turns which would interfere with traffic, but clearly out there in nature on gravel roads with no other humans or cars or infrastructure in sight, you don't have to deal with any street corners or traffic.

[โ€“] 56_@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's actually not bad at corners. You'd probably be fine cycling maybe a metre further out than usual.

You could probably move a similar amount on just one large trailer, which might be easier to manoeuvre round a city. Bikes at work has some cool examples: