Business by bike: Providence entrepreneurs start small and green
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Providence people who use bikes in their work include police officers, merchants, messengers, and even farmers. Most of them are in their 20s and 30s.
Tom Olson, owner of Eco Pedicab, pedals between 120 and 300 miles a week as he taxis people around Providence. Val Khislavsky pedals a three-wheeled cart with a food cooler to sell her homemade pudding pops. Urban farmers Tess Brown-Lavoie, Laura Brown-Lavoie, and Fay Strongin, of Sidewalk Ends Farm, and Than Wood, of Front Step Farm, use bicycles with special trailers to transport fresh grown produce to market and to local restaurants as well as compost materials to the farm.
The use of the bicycle permits an economical entry level into certain businesses with a green frame of mind.
Providence Journal video by Sandor Bodo
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THIS IS WHAT THIS GREAT COUNTRY IS ALL ABOUT... THE CHOICE TO HAVE PASSION FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN. GOD BLESS THE USA!!!
I've always preferred two rather than four whee!s , but might change with a chair/trailer on the back.What an active business idea with its therapeutic benefit as well. I was your 51st thumbs up to like, well done entrepreneurs of Providence.
Wow very interesting.... this is the way to go... bicycles are a great way for transportation.
I rode one of those with my sister and mum when we were on holiday ITS SO FUN
@frank's mobile advertising $20 dollars for a 5-8 minute ride
Great small business but it’s not for everyone.
I agree.
Ok so she's reping 4:03. Respect
This deserves more likes lol
Haha a year later tho
I'd love to know who makes those bike trailers???
would you still like to know?
@frank's mobile advertising i have a detachable one that seats 2 and attaches to almost any 10 speed bike. i'm in oregon
@frank's mobile advertising i have it stored in my barn loft and haven't used it for years. when i made it i looked into getting a patent on it and paid a company $500 to do a market research for it. the result was a hardback book of the results which concluded that my detachable design made it patentable. the company was interested in producing a prototype but was needing something like $12,000 . i already had the prototype and did not have $12,000 to invest. have just been storing it every since.
@frank's mobile advertising there is no you guys, just me. i was a sheet metal fabricator at the time. this was just something i built for the family. it was all the interest i got from people on the street when i took my family for a ride around the neighborhood that got me to look into a patent on it. i'm 60 yrs old now and haven't even thought about the buggy until i ran across this youtube video on those rickshaw bikes. where i lived in the central valley of california the marketability of this type of product was not as good as it would have been in an area like a big city or somewhere that the use of a vehicle would be restricted due to high traffic, etc. the $12,000 which i was quoted was to market the bike which included the prototype but at the time i was strapped to come up with the $500 the market research cost. i would love to see somebody do something with this buggy in my lifetime rather than it just rot in the barn but it's beyond me on how to proceed.
Really enjoyed your video , thank you
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The pedicab did you have to get a different gear or crank ?
O my God .I thought only in countries like India we find these
Good job
I've always considered taxi bike interesting. The driver burns calories instead of fuel.
I'm glad that he made his own special buisness but seriously he needs to wear a helmet and provide that for his passengers as well as some sort of seatbelts.
יפה מאוד . העבודה מכבדת את האדם ,😂😂👍
bravi
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Them rickshaws should not be in traffic. They are to wide to share a lane and are sluggish.
i'm going to guess so are you
lol cars even barely move in the traffic.