The trailers were absolutely essential. All of the loads could have been done without ebikes, but I probably would have had fewer friends willing to help on that day if we were on acoustic bikes.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I didn’t know they were called electric and acoustic like guitars haha

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure OP wouldn't be able to carry that by bike.

[–] ianrbuck@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Carry what? Bet I can.

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Maybe "wouldn't be able to" was a little strongly worded, for I've seen people carry the weirdest stuff by bike, from 65" flatscreens to mid-sized furniture, but it cannot possibly be comfortable nor safe to carry a sofa by bike (eg. not a trailer pulled by bike/car/pedestrian) for any significant distance.

If you have any kind of trailer, then that's of course a entirely different story.

[–] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I wanted to challenge myself to do it all by bike, so I started the lease on my new apartment a month before my old lease expired.

So they spent an entire month additional rent probably like $1500+ so that they could do this??? Carrying stuff in bikes is fun, but this seems pretty out of touch.

[–] ianrbuck@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

My rent is $1k, not an insurmountable extra cost for just one month. Even if I were going to do it by car, I wouldn't have wanted to start my new lease right when the old one ended, because the added stress of moving everything in one day would have been significant.

[–] TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've given myself a month of overlap even moving by car/truck before. Much less stressful than having to move everything in one day or moving everything to a storage unit then back into the new house (moving everything twice).

[–] JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

Seconding this - I've done the month overlap thing twice, with cars and a moving truck and everything. Once because my current landlords expected me out on the last day and the new people wouldn't let me move in until noon on the first even though the place was already empty for "renovations" (slapping another coat of white paint over everything, dirt and all). The other time because I had a line on a great place and didn't want to miss it. It still made moving way easier and I was able to skip the moving truck that time.