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The entire sentence is:

> バイクなら そうかかんないだろうに

I first interpreted it as just そう + かかんない(果敢ない), but I've never seen/heard そう
being placed before an adjective before, so I don't think that's correct.

For further context, this is a character's internal monologue as he waits for
his friend to arrive.
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The meaning of "そうかかんない" in this sentence
The verb is かかる meaning to take time in this case. In the sentence it is

> そうかからない

So it means to not take time. The そう modifies it to mean "not so much" like
the "that" in "It shouldn't take that long"

As in most languages, in casual speech things get contracted and abbreviated.
So, かからない becomes かかんない。

So the whole thing is

> By bike it shouldn't be taking/have taken that long

But with the nuance of someone taking an unexpectedly long time as opposed to
a simple statement of how long they think the trip should take because of the
だろうに.

Note that バイク exclusively refers to motorcycles and scooters in Japanese.
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