I survived the Bristol disaster relief trial yesterday on an acoustic cargo bike, including the medical task (bandage up a wound), the mechanical task (simulated puncture), and successfully brought back 2x14kg sandbags to shore up the base, radio equipment and 25l of water collected from the river after some offroading.

I navigated ~30miles over 5 checkpoints spread over Bristol from a paper map (no electricity, mobile or GPS) and was not fast but not last.

I did fail to keep the medical samples (3 bread sticks simulating test tubes) in one piece.

...oh, and at the finish, i carried it all over a 1 m barrier
#cargobike #CarryShitOlympics #disasterrelieftrials

@mattdawhit Thanks for letting us join you on that adventure through these posts! An acoustic cargo bike, I assume, is acoustic as in "non motorized" or does it also make funny noises (other than the rider when it gets hilly)? Honest question since I did not hear that term before.
@radlfabs
Yeah acoustic as in non-electric (following acoustic guitar vs electric guitar).
Also referred to as manual or muscle :)
@mattdawhit As an audio engineer who is only used to make lights quiter or louder I love that!
@radlfabs i tend to use acoustic because it feels like a more fun way of describing
@mattdawhit Totally agree! :-)