[workbike] Re: workbike digest V2 #178

We make a bike that carries a whitewater kayak, though probably not an open
canoe. Feel free to email if you'd like.

Kipchoge Spencer
Xtracycle International
kipchoge@xtracycle.com
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>From: workbike@ihpva.org (workbike digest)
>To: workbike-digest@ihpva.org
>Subject: workbike digest V2 #178
>Date: Sun, Aug 29, 1999, 4:11 AM
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>workbike digest        Sunday, August 29 1999        Volume 02 : Number 178
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>[workbike] Canoe trailer project
>[workbike] Combining business and pleasure
>Re: [workbike] Canoe trailer project
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>Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 06:32:17 PDT
>From: "Geoff Martin" <geoffmartin@excite.com>
>Subject: [workbike] Canoe trailer project
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>As part of a design and technology course I am taking at college I am
>currently designing a trailer for my bike to tow a kayak. Do you have any
>material that may be useful in reserching such a project?
>
>Thanks 
>Geoff
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>Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 09:02:01 -0500
>From: "jim gregory" <jim@bikesatwork.com>
>Subject: [workbike] Combining business and pleasure
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>Last Tuesday evening, our local university held their annual
>"Concert on the Green", a symphony concert held on the open
>"green" area in the center of campus.  Joan and I had
>attended the previous concert last year and really enjoyed
>it.  This year, I thought I'd combine a little business with
>pleasure and take our pedicab.
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>Due to other runs I had to make that day, I got to campus
>later than I would have liked (about 25 min. before the
>concert) with our cab, and therefore wasn't able to carry
>many passengers.  I ended up only carrying three groups of
>people (one group being a woman and her dog--my first
>non-human passenger <grin> ), and only made $4 gross.
>Another factor that hampered ridership was the lack of
>really low gears on my cab.  Most people were parking at the
>bottom of a steep hill from the concert site, which I
>thought I would have a difficult time climbing when loaded.
>So, I kept to the more level but less heavily travelled
>parts of campus.
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>I went back to the concert site after the concert had
>started since my potential supply of passengers had dried
>up.  I found Joan--she had ridden her own bike up later
>after I had left home--and we parked underneath a tree
>toward the back so we wouldn't block anyone's view.  We sat
>comfortably side-by-side in the passenger seat, holding
>hands, enjoying each other's company while we enjoyed the
>music.  We also enjoyed watching all the little kids,
>naturally more rambunctous than their parents, run around in
>the grass and repeatedly try to climb the nearby tree.  It
>was a great evening, made even better by the fact that,
>unlike almost everyone else there, we had a cozy,
>comfortable seat in which to sit.  Workbikes are great for
>more than just work....
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>- -Jim
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>Jim Gregory & Joan Stein
>Bikes At Work, Inc.    mail@bikesatwork.com
>216 N. Hazel   Ames, IA  50010-5948
>515-233-6120
>providers of bicycle delivery services & equipment since
>1991
>http://www.bikesatwork.com
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>Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 11:20:01 -0700
>From: Pierre La Plant and/or Margot Cunningham <pl_mc@sirius.com>
>Subject: Re: [workbike] Canoe trailer project
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>Farrington Chariots makes a bike trailer for just that purpose. Their web
>page has a picture.
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>http://www.fchariot.com/
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>- -Margot
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>At 6:32 AM -0700 8/28/99, Geoff Martin wrote:
>>As part of a design and technology course I am taking at college I am
>>currently designing a trailer for my bike to tow a kayak. Do you have any
>>material that may be useful in reserching such a project?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Geoff
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