Robert
Buffalo,#2Consumer Comment
Mon, June 27, 2011
This is a poor business idea. A trailer attached to a bicycle for hire? Not with me on board.
This is NOT a rikshaw in any sense of the word. A rickshaw is made on ONE SOLID FRAME (not two separate assemblies clamped together.)
As a consumer, I would never pay anyone to ride around in this contraption-too unsafe as you pointed out.
If you wish to have a rikshaw business, I suggest you purchase a rikshaw. This nonsense is just that, nonsense. I'm not certain that this contraction can be licensed and INSURED for running a personal conveyance business. If I was an insurance underwriter, I wouldn't allow it or I'd make sure the insurance premiums were so high that no one would consider this rediculous business idea.
I fear that you might be stuck with this nonsense. Perhaps you could use it for delivering firewood or groceries to shut-ins. I do not recommend you use this thing to convey people.
Adolph
Homosassa,#3General Comment
Mon, June 27, 2011
'Rickshaws' (three wheeled bikes) have been used successfully in scores of foreign
countries, including the USA. They are inherently stable as they remain upright when at rest
without a side stand. The passengers needn't be concerned about the operator crashing on
his BICYCLE, throwing them foreward with possible injury.
It's sad the "designer" chose this his inherently unstable design for his "work bike trailer"
I was in Japan from 1947 to 1952 and NEVER saw a bike pulling a trailer, but hundreds of three-
wheeled 'rickshaw / pedicabs' for personal and freight transport. IMHO the 'designer' decided
to 'reinvent the wheel' in an effort to market something less expensive.
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Interestingly, there are quite a few other sites alluding to everything from non-delivery to unuseable equipment from this 'manufacturer'. IMHO his wares show no proprietary parts,
only a bunch of straight tubing put together in the maner of a highschool shop class project.
I surely hope you can get your money back, as there exist many (three wheeled) pedicab rickshaws on the market. Granted, more money than a "trailer", but at least useable,
emminently safer, and available. Some have the passengers in front (saving the complexity of a driven 'rear axle), others postition the driver / peddler in the front. The passengers would have unrestricted vision in the former.
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Here's an unknown brand of same in New York city.