Bicycle Riding

I went to a local market with a friend and to save time he rode his bicycle while I sat in back. While we are riding back with our goods safely tucked away in his front basket, he says back home this sort of thing doesn't happen. You don't go clothes shopping and then just hop on your bicycle to go home. I'm thinking, well I don't go buy clothes and then hop on the back of a bicycle in the US either. Yes, I know, Alex, you ride your bicycle to go shopping regularly and have come back with a computer in your basket-equivalent. Which reminds me, I'll be sad not to see people riding around with motherboards (or some other random computer gear) in their baskets after I leave here.