For various groups of people, Barrack Obamas Inauguration day will be remembered for different reasons. In Washington, the Pedicab riders came out in force and made alot of money.
Here is a quote from Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal; “The traffic was so bad, and so chaotically handled, that everyone had a story. Mine: Stuck for more than an hour near the Mall one night and late for an appointment, I jumped out of a car and hailed an open-air bicycle with a backseat. The driver threw a blanket on me and began to pump the pedals. “What is this called?” I shouted as we raced around limos and town cars. I expected some politically correct name like Energy Saving Mobile Apparatus. He looked back at me quizzically. “A rickshaw!” We got there on time, 15 blocks in four minutes, and like a happy capitalist, the driver, gauging the moment, the need and the competition, opened bidding at $25. I was grateful to pay.”
Thank you to gwadzilla for the pic.
Our trikes can carry a load of up to 100kg at very competitive rates.
There’s no reason not to call for a quote.
Essentially the same design as the Pashley Delibike, still produced and sold by Velorution
In the New Year we will write about the farce of the attempts by the London authorities to regulate the pedicab industry
In Denmark the most common way to transport anything bulky is by tricycle, London is slowly catching up. We at Zero Couriers have found this to be the perfect way to deliver Christmas trees in Central London, but for larger ones as high as 3 metres we use the Cycle Maximus cargo tricycle.
Thanks to the Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog for the pic
Katu:
VANCOUVER, Wash. - Forget those big brown trucks this holiday season.
The economy is changing the way some of our holiday packages will be delivered - and brown is going green.
UPS is putting cyclists on the road across Oregon and southwest Washington to deliver holiday packages.
Eighteen cyclists are training to make the first ever UPS deliveries by bike in Oregon. Each mountain bike will pull a cart that can safely haul 200 pounds in packages.
Even if they only make a fraction of the stops a truck can, officials estimate for every three cyclists on the road they’ll save $38,000 in repair and fuel costs.
The company also hopes to earn more business by being more environmentally friendly.
Our comment: doesn’t look very sophisticated, especially comparing to the tricycles that UPS has used in Germany:
Image via BikeHacks
Manufactured by Christiania Bikes, it now features a self-raising floor, for easier access of packages
