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Old 07-30-2008, 03:37 PM
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Default Re: Bike Side Car

Yes, we were talking about this in another thread a few weeks back.

I know alot of people who would love to have such. I've advocated using the top of a grocery shopping cart myself or even just a ply wood box. Over the weekend I was at a pizza/spaghetti shop that had WIFI and a couple poor guys who come there every couple weeks on foot were looking at the photos I showed them on my laptop of sidecars mounted to bicycles. They flipped when they saw the photos and wished they could find one they could buy.

These guys (one the older brother and the younger is with lower IQ but both are darn good workers) mow lawns, rake leaves, and just "handy helper" in general. They saw the potential for being able to ride bikes to more easily get around and for work....hook up the side car and place their brooms, rakes, mops and buckets pruning sheers and misc tools inside and riding to their regular work sites. They could even lash a 6 ft step ladder on the top of the side car as well.

They were telling me about the social workers telling them that they could get them free bicycles if they wanted them from the Police Dept that are were abandoned on the street. The Police used to have monthly auctions but decided that there were low income folks who could get to work on a bicycle
if they had one. So far they had just been content to walk. But the sidecar
on a bike was a whole new world of possibilities to them.

There may be some of us here who can remember when boys drove Ice Cream
bicycles thru the parks, public swimming pools & neighborhoods. Often they had bells attached to the handle bar they rang to announce themselves coming. Many called them "Jingle Bikes".



The insulated box was cooled with dry ice and a poster on each side showed what they sold. I could just imagine these with electric motor eBike wheels for motor assist for older sales people to vend with. The only Co emmisions would be from the dry ice melting in the cooler.
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