The Last Mile: GCN's Cargo Bike Beer Delivery Challenge
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2022
- We sent Manon & Conor on work experience as Beer Delivery Drivers (pretty cool) for Bristol Beer Factory! We think bikes are the answer to everything here at GCN, so aboard their neat new cargo bikes from our friends at Raleigh, we sent them on their way to see if it could be the future!
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Raleigh and Schwinn are the two bike companies I will forever root for. Some folks look down on them for their mass production business model but the truth is they made bikes accessible to millions of people and that is a great thing.
I was a kid in the '80s, and just about everyone was riding a Raleigh bike back then. To see that they're still around and thriving brings back fond memories!
My first road bike I got aged 8 was a Raleigh and my first MTB was also a Raleigh when I was about 12. Where I grew up our LBS was a family run Raleigh stockist and I learned so much from Mary who ran the shop, and her mechanic (except his name). I'll always remember his advice about not over-lubing the chain, as well as the phrase "don't use no wa*k pliers" for cutting cable outer. Raleigh were my route into cycling and although I have fancy carbon bikes now, I have a couple of Raleigh jerseys and an enamel sign in my workshop to celebrate the brand.
The mid 90s was all about the Raleigh Activator complete with suspension forks. Had a local Raleigh shop in the days when there seemed to be more cycling presence on the high street.
Bike’s best friend is beer 🍻!! Epic video
Every video I see with Conor makes me realize that I take life WAY too seriously and need to relax a bit. Maybe we should all unleash our inner 5-year-old self a little more often!
An adult is only a child that has learned to behave in public.
I remember on of his first videos a commenter compared him to Ferdinand the Bull. He's off and smelling flowers again. That still a good capture of how he seems to take life.
I couldn't agree more - feel the same!
And get a natural high from cycling.
Yeah, he's clearly got a great attitude about life and stopping to smell the flowers or buy them in this case.
Cargo bike make so much sense in cities. I‘ve seen DHL and UPS tricyles in the wild that can carry even more stuff and don‘t need to be pulled on a stand at the stops.
I am the only one to think that if Dan was here he would drink the beer and not deliver it.
Thats why Dans not in the vid! .... Or Si .... He is just not as vocal as Dan about the beer😁
My same thoughts, exactly.haha
There would be for sure a lot less beer delivered.
Do NOT let Dan do this. The beer would never make it to its destination 😊
Manon's extra crate will not reach the customer for sure lol
He'll probably switch it out with mineral waters. 😂
Love how Connor is zooming by the prime truck @13:08
Future passing the Past:)
Fantastic video!!!it is not all about racing and new gear and so on. Bikes could be a serious possibility for cities. An applause for you guys and for Raleigh too. Really enjoyed it! Let's hope some businesses start thinking in the environment and apply this type of initiatives. It totally makes sense for deliveries inside the town.
Probably common in third world countries!!!
yes but the beer company didn't seem that keen on using the bikes for deliveries themselves just for 'community work' ?
Not just could be, they are. In the Netherlands cargo bikes are really common for families (easy to transport small children) and for delivery. It is often faster, nicer and parking is easier.
Hilariously entertaining once again. Chapeau to Raleigh for such a kind gesture to the brewery. I doubt Connor will be asked to do another delivery challenge video after that ending though!
I loved this video! I think Manon and Conor are a really good pair for things like this
16:51 this is by far the best action shot! It looks like Conor accidentally joined a stage of the the tour de france with his cargo bike instead of a road bike. :D
Well done to Raleigh. Great gesture for forging a more sustainable future in our cities 😊
Conor [after loitering at the pizzeria for half and hour]: "I"m absolutely flying!"😅
So want one of those Raleigh cargo bikes for delivering about glasgow. So cool.
Brilliant pity we don't see more of this type of delivery
I have some friends that live in Berlin who’ve been doing deliveries on cargo bikes for a number of years! I’ve seen them deliver small things like paintings to big things like chest of drawers! Although, it’s all flat with barely any elevation 😂
I really wanted to see Dan drinking a beer at end waiting for Connor and Manon
Maybe deliver coffee or pizza? Love watching Manon and Connor in these challenges. Thank you.
You might enjoy this. ua-cam.com/users/PizzaTrike
What a great fun challenge (had to sympathise with poor 'ol Manon at struggling to just get the bike off the centre stand when fully loaded, but she did great). Such generosity - just hope the delivery runs now continue on these bikes.
Great video and what a gesture from the fantastic Raleigh who over the years have got so many people into cycling.....who remembers the Grifter and Chopper in the 80's..!! Also fun to see Manon cycling in jeans and no clip in shoes 🤣👍👍
Could they deliver Pizza 🍕 next..? 🤔🤔
great video, great to see more cargo and utility cycling content :)
I think Dan would be brilliant at delivering beer, it’s the mineral waters he’d have a problem with.
great episode. I have a tricycle which I use for my shopping. So much easier to collect and take home and its comfortable. Another good feature of cargo bikes/tricycles is that drivers generally give you plenty space if you have to use the roads.
I love this sort of content. The world needs more bikes and fewer internal combustion vehicles. This is basically universal.
Another WICKED great video by GCN. Manon and Conor; you two are truly "Urban Bike Warriors.!" I ride in traffic a lot, but your routes look really crowded...especially in front of trucks! Keep riding guys!! DD
Lorry drivers in the UK are way more patient than in southern France.
Hahaha, is that Manon yelling "OI! YOU!" at the end ? 😆
Next delivery should be a washing machine!
Manon's first long john cargo bike ride, immortalized on camera and carrying someone else's valuable cargo! Great video, all. #modeshift4climate #utilitycycling #whatwillyouride #whatwontyoudrive
Very efficient way to deliver in a congested area. The clear limitation of course is that you are limited to small items
Sure, but there are specialized cargo trikes with a much greater payload. I've seen this used by DHL in Hamburg/Germany a lot.
Nothing worse than going backwards as a delivery person, I feel for you Manon.
I use two CarlaCargo trailers connected in series on my LongTail E-Bike for beverage delivery. With this I get half a ton delivered for each tour.
I adore that you guys - including the slab climb - are finally embracing ebikes!!! Loved this video! We have come from me hardly watching GCN to finally feel good about watching it because you guys “get it” - i have a carbon road bike for one purpose - and my 3 ebikes for much different reasons. On your commuter challenge thing? love it. but not sure i heard you guys mention that if you start riding bikes for nearly everything? I changed to progressive snapshot and saved a ton [this is not an ad, just what i did] on insurance because i only drive a car when i HAVE to. Shine on you wonderful folks at GCN.
And big up Raleigh donating the bike’s
It seems like they probably shouldn’t have though, based on the owner’s response.
Great video, lots of fun and a serious practical idea to consider for a number of cities. Courier bikers have been around forever, but this takes it to a whole new level.
Love the size difference between Connor and Manon.
I think the reason why Manon pulled a better pint. Is because she is the correct height to reach the taps. Conor couldn't reach them properly and couldn't see the beer in the glass correctly. I'm actually surprised you could find a cargo bike big enough for Conor.
Royal Mail use to use bikes for all rounds, and they did not have any motors on the bikes.
Mail is also contributed by bikes in other countries, but mail don't weigh 100 kg.
Just try to pull that weight in a bicycle trailer - for such cases there are good reasons for E bikes
We just bought a Raleigh Stride 2 as a car replacement for our nursery/work commutes and absolutely love it!
Great to see more cargo bike content!
Well done on another excellent video, and well done for not turning it into some of the top gear challenges. Good to see a positive outcome from the venture.
As for future deliveries how about lunch from our business main site to our two other sites all in South West London.
Love the environmental angle. Thank you!
I couldn't think of anything I'd rather do less than ride a cargo bike, or indeed any bike, with all that traffic right up my ar#e. Horrific. And I love cycling.
Definitely Dan's idea of a paper round. Although he'd guzzle all the beer.
hilarious to see that even brewers in Bristol are rocking the Boneyard swag at 2:24
Good of the bike manufacturers to donate the bikes, brilliant gesture 👍
Can’t believe Mannon not ridden a cargo bike before and you chuck her out into Bristol traffic. 😂😅
She did a great job though.
From a 4.5 year cargo bike rider you can take the lane more than both of them did. Seeing more and more riders round Bristol taking the lane and keeping themselves safe.
Nice work! Next you should deliver building materials and see how much weight you can haul!
Connor has clearly been working on his upper body, strength, flinging that keg around with one hand! Connor and Manon are the perfect pair for this sort of a video.
How about an night of Pizza delivery, Manon and Connor!
Cracking video…… great way to deliver the smaller stuff infairness 👍🏻 surprised ye not delivering it all to Loydy house 🤔🤪😂😂
Raleigh did amazing - i'm sure the company will use them well. this looked a load 🤣of fun! x
Perfect! Bike, then beer
Bristol looks like a very nice city to visit. This video really shows the great possibilities for delivery for companies like Amazon. What a great video.
Pizza, Beer, Bike: The Perfect Life
What a super cool video! It’s the way to move forward if you’re in a first world country. Here in SA I’m sure there would be bikejackings and theft Big time! But do love the video and watching Manon and Connor is extremely entertaining! 😂
Awesome video and epic ending. It would be cool to revisit to see what happened with the bikes and Conor's plants!
18:15 until we get a Dan Lloyd joke? GCN, you are really making us work for it.
The hub idea is a great one , especially for anyone that's had a lorry sat behind you
Bristol is my local, so great to see you around
Maybe a video in and around Bristol promoting cycling/cycleways, theres lots here
Great video lots of fun... Guys!! visit Copenhagen!!! They've been delivering for YEARS on bikes MUCH more appropriate and practical than the 2 used in this video.
Big respect to Raleigh - awesome gesture.
Wot?! GCN & Beer but no sign of Dan anywhere?! Final scene was priceless.😄 Bristol loves lovely with nice looking eateries, I must visit Bertha's Sourdough Pizzas.
You guys should absolutely do the Amsterdam cargo bike race - DC Maker did it this year and I was surprised to not see you there!
I don't brink beer but I still watched this video because I know how cool cargo bikes are!
I would have liked a few stats, ie, distance cycled, time cycled, amount of battery used, and how much juice was left. But a great video and very entertaining. Thanks!
Welcome to green washing with GCN. Just actually imagine how congested traffic would be if we wanted to deliver every parcel by truck by an ebike. How many more ebikes it would take than trucks, still eating electricity and using rare metals. What we actually need to change is our lifestyles.
Despite the sound of the barrel rolling on the street - the most obvious sign that the barrel was empty was the fact that a cyclist could lift it up...
Another fun bike video, the two of you are a great team and worked hard to get the beer to where it belongs. Now you have a plan B career if this bike thing does not work out.
loved this. well done conor and manon!
If adopted by only half of the businesses out there, this method could actually contribute a great deal to the reduction of both pollution and traffic in big cities.
works only on small deliveries. might be ok for a local producer. Also weather would destroy Connor's cargo
@@LednacekZ It's still something. If you cover the cargo with some waterproof material, I guess it's safe.
@@alinapopescu872 he has rails at sides. It could be done but it would be much more hustle. The closed one looked more viable to me. It also had 20 kg higher load capacity and was lockable.
@@LednacekZ Agreed. The closed one does look more like something that can be used for deliveries. The other one is more for individuals shopping or taking children to school.
What fun. Great videos. Those bikes are awesome and obviously eco-friendly compared to vehicles on delivery. Well done
Brilliant video guys.😃👍
Fantastic community vibe!
What a great idea! That hub thing then ebikes.
Great vid!!! Would love to see a cargo team bike race, like Hank/Ollie Vs Connor/Si - of course if it's (mostly) safe and legal for an adult passenger in the cargo hold 😁
Manon is right - if you can cycle around Bristol you can cycle anywhere! It'd be easier without the cars... Great video as always! Not sure why I missed this one when it was first published!
Brilliant film as always guys! Such a great message about shifting the use of vans on that last mile of delivery! Let’s hope it sticks! Also I thought Conor might have come a bit unstuck there, setting his Chat-Nav to full, buying plants etc. I half expected Manon to speed past him, race back first and to have drunk the brewery dry by the time Conor got back… her surname is Lloyd after all! 😂
Great video, guys! My suggestion on the next thing to carry/deliver would be building and construction materials. You'll probably need a longtail and maybe a trailer for that, especially for the bulkier items.
WHAT!!!? bikes can be actually used for something else than status symbols on the roof of Tesla model S, this is MAAAADNEEES!!!
My two favorite presenters. Manon and Conor are great in all their videos.
Brilliant video! I’d like to see, like in a month, how BBF delivery folks like using the bikes and if they find it better than using vehicles. Also, very cool Raleigh’s donated the bikes to BBF.
Great video, cheers guys
The keg action at the end... 😂😂😂
Best episode ever... keep up the good work.
Thanks Alex - what would you like to see us do next?
@@gcn since you are asking…. Send someone to the International Cargo Bike Festival in Amsterdam (oct27-29)… also, a visit to a functional, community micro-distribution hub would be good. :)
i work as a bike courier in milan (italy) and here in our city there are some big companies as DHL that deliver by bike. My company, which name is bicicouriers, delivers for various customer, mainly for a winery and for a butcher, but we deliver also for a florist, a notary office and so on. It is very rapid and we can easily skip all the trafic issues that happens daily in our big city. Unfortunately we have only muscular bikes and our maximum deliver of wine can weight up to 160kg. i very enjoy this job because it keeps me in shape for my bike rides (i ride 45-50km for an half day or 70-85 for a full day), it's a green alternative to trucks and it keeps me out of an office
e-cargo bikes definitely have their place for small volume, in-town deliveries, but I'd wager money that Bristol Beer Factory had vans/trucks out on the road on that same day delivering larger orders and kegs. Also as Manon indirectly mentioned, the rain can make this sort of delivery method really miserable.
I hope BBF puts those bikes to good use and that other companies follow suit where it makes sense. I'm assuming the bike courier companies have expanded into 'cargo' deliveries and run fleets of these, which could be a much more efficient model than each business sending out part loaded bikes.
Quattrovelo velomobile exists. Why GCN didnt ask John Williams from velo ads to borrow it?
Riding bikes, berthas, alpha bottle shop… sounds like my perfect day!!
The best bike video ever 👌
Conor’s seat height 😂😂
Cargo bikes make sense for small deliveries in towns/cities. For larger deliveries (ie weight) they won't replace trucks.
My two great passions. Beer and cycling. And I brew the former at home. This is a great idea. Might reduce the amount of van drivers nearly forcing me off the road with their overtaking.
Raleigh bicycles! My first '10 speed' was an aqua-blue bike I called Babe after the os in the Paul Bunyon tales. I bought my Alyssa 2 hybrid about 70 lbs ago. (
In Bern, Switzerland, there's actually a micro brewery, that delivers exclusively by bike. Naturally the beer is only available in stores and bars around Bern, but I think this is a very nice USP.
Cool video guys, thanks.
Good one, put a decent pair of panniers on your e bike and forget the car for shopping even up Weatheroak Hill loaded with a dozen pints of the Coach and Horses various own brews.
That ride up the hill ( 11:01 ) Impressive.
Can you do a challenge video about velomobiles?
I live in Toronto Canada 🇨🇦 and it's a Saturday. I'll take a 12 pack thanks Rob.
If Dan were in this, I’d expect him to be the one being delivered to!
Connor's first two deliveries are about 15 meters apart lol Bertha's pizza is next door to better foods pretty much
Connor is not lifting a full keg with that arm... 😉 Enjoyed the video
I liked that I can see the limitations of balance when starting off on the bike and the stability is my concern... like an over loaded wheelbarrow. If the cargo bike had two wheels up front or back to stabilize the bike that would be a remarkable improvement I believe. But imagine a fleet of cargo bicycles all over the city delivering goods... even ebikes thats impressive and with the bikes being charged by solar and have batteries swappable upon reloading that would cut down on so much pollution in the city alone.
This was really cool. It would be amazing to see Bristol and basically every other town / city free of cars. I don’t think we have time to build good quality bike infrastructure now because we’ve wasted so many years not doing anything. But we have the roads which bikes dominated in the 1930s and 40s already, and can again.