Replace your second car.
Most of our cargo customers do. Some keep one. Either way the school run gets calmer, the commute gets faster, and €4,000 a year stays in the family.
The maths is friendly. The day is friendlier.
A second family car costs an Irish family €4,218 a year, on the AA's own numbers. A cargo bike costs around €50.
The financial case for a cargo bike is the easy part. Fuel, insurance, NCT, motor tax, parking, the slow drip of repairs. A typical Irish second car burns €4,000 a year for a job that, in most cases, an e-bike does better. Over five years the difference is a deposit on a house.
The harder part to explain is what changes on the day you ride it. The school run is the obvious one. Fourteen minutes instead of thirty-five. No idling in the line outside the gates. Kids who arrive looking like they have already had a small adventure and ask for the bike on the way home.
The decision you are making is not "can I replace a car with a bike." It is "can I imagine my next twelve weeks with this in the hallway." That is a decision best made by riding one, not reading about one.
One of these is the right one. Probably not the one you came in for.
We stock cargo for a reason. The three bikes below cover almost every Irish family use case we have seen since 2009. Each one is the right answer for someone. Riding two side by side is how you find out which someone is you.
Ownership made simple. Five things to get right.
A premium cargo bike is a fifteen-year decision, not a fifteen-month one. Here is what we cover with every cargo customer in the first week.
Two locks. An Abus Bordo Granit through the frame and rear wheel. A separate chain through the front wheel and a fixed object.
PowUnity BikeTrax. Insurance discount, recovery if needed, peace of mind every time you leave it.
Two services in the first year, included. Cargo bikes work harder and benefit from being looked at properly.
Dedicated insurance via Qover from €5.25/month · Rain cover fitted before the first wet day
"We sold the second car six months ago. I budgeted that we would miss it. We do not."
Niamh · Stoneybatter · Urban Arrow Family
Twenty minutes on a cargo bike answers a year of research.
Book a cargo test ride at Sandyford, Mullingar, or Cork. Bring the kids. Bring your partner. We will have two bikes ready and a coffee waiting.
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