Watch my weekly grocery shopping using my cargobike to haul the heavy grocery bags back home. This is DAY 23 of the coronavirus partial lock-down, or confined movement order, which restricts people to move no further than 10 km from home and only permits people to go out for essential purposes, like getting food.

The city is almost like a ghost town. Almost everybody is wearing face masks. The health experts warn that it likely will take 1.5 years to get over this pandemic. So, is this really the new normal?!

I try out the blue bicycle lanes of Kuala Lumpur on my way home, and I realize that some things never change, even during a pandemic with ghost city conditions, namely parked cars on the bicycle lane! Sigh....

In the supermarket, I try out a different camera angle by placing the GoPro camera on the shopping basket. I found it quite interesting / therapeutic to watch the cart being dragged around the supermarket, so the uncut footage is in the video. In its own right, it is also an interesting documentation of life during the COVID-19 pandemic with everybody walking around wearing masks in the supermarket and practising social distancing. But if you want to skip the whole supermarket bit, fast forward to 46:20 where I start my return ride with the fully loaded cargo bike.

Enjoy the video - and stay safe everybody!

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Video highlights:
0:49 The cycling trip to the supermarket starts
3:25 Parking the cargobike. Locking it to the yellow pole I used last time
5:06 Old photo from the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918 of people wearing face masks. An estimated 50-100 million people died World-wide from the Spanish Flu (1918-20)!
5:20 Walking through the strangely empty Pavilion shopping mall (Bukit Bintang)
8:06 Entering supermarket with mandatory temperature check and application of hand sanitiser
9:33 Good view of the chest strap that I normally mount the GoPro camera to
10:17 Camera mounted on supermarket shopping basket. A new interesting perspective :-)
13:03 Some interesting medical history on the drink: Gin & Tonic
32:11 Packing groceries at the supermarket - from an interesting floor perspective
36:50 Carrying the heavy grocery bags - from the perspective of the grocery bag.
39:33 Taking a wrong dead-end turn to the toilets; the Pavilion staff looking bewildered.
42:14 Back at the cargobike with the grocery bags
44:11 Loading the cargobike with the three heavy grocery bags
46:20 Good profile view of the loaded Omnium cargobike. It can carry up to 100 kg
46:41 Return bicycle trip on cargobike starts
47:35 Trying out the Blue Bicycle Lanes of Kuala Lumpur. Encountering many parked cars on the bicycle lane!
49:25 Showing the 4 different pedal assist modes for the electric Omnium cargobike
54:01 Stopping by the shop that burned about 2 weeks ago
55:53 Dropping off the grocery bags at the lift lobby at my home
58:04 Showing that by bicycle is not blocking access to the fire hydrant

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My Omnium cargobike is from Denmark, but available on their webshop. I got mine delivered within 1 week of ordering it! Several viewers asked about the bike, so here are the details.
Website: https://omniumcargo.dk/


Price: RM10,000 (USD2500) for the cargobike without electric motor
Price: RM15,000 (USD3750) for the cargobike with electric motor, which is the one I have. The electric motor is a Shimano STEPS 8000 power unit. Motor power is 250 W (the max limit allowed in the EU), the battery stores 0.5 kWh of electricity, giving a range of 80-100 km, and only costing RM0.20 (USD0.05) to charge. Cheap operating expenses :-)

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The video is filmed using a GoPro 8 camera mounted on a chest-strap. For windnoise reduction, the GoPro camera was put in a windslayer foam casing.