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I have both a homebuilt bakfeit-style cargo bike and a bike trailer [0]. The cargo bike works great for carrying smaller loads, but when it comes to carry large cargo like furniture or building supplies, I find the trailer more useful.

[0] - https://www.bikesatwork.com/store/product/96a-bicycle-traile... (disclosure: my wife and I manufacture these trailers)

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Depends largely on the style of the cargo bike. Our local IKEA offers (free) cargo bikes, and previously they had much more useful cargo bikes [1] which they replaced with basket-style ones and now it's of no use for bigger loads. Anyways, yes, trailers are great, but for some reason still not massively produced.

BTW now I looked at your (very rich) offer and noticed you don't have any trailers intended for transporting children. Is that not a thing in the US? Most of the bike trailers I'm seeing over here in Europe are for hauling kids.

[1] https://hamburg.adfc.de/fileadmin/_processed_/csm_f22ikea-c_...

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