New Business Card Design & Case

I redid the BBI card design. I'm working a newer yet version to order from www.vistaprint.com.

I also bought this card carrying leather wallet and mounted it with zip-ties to my dashboard for flicking out cards in an instant.

New .com site for UpCycle

UpCycle is the brand name for custom bikes that I build. There's now a web address hosted by Fat Cow that showcases the bike creations I've made as well as other used bikes for sale. You can also request commissions and see future projects coming along.

upcyclebikes.com

This blog on the other hand, will in the future be geared less toward the manufacturing and more toward sharing the pedicab operations run by Bikes Bring It. If you have any photos of yourself and your friends on the pedicab, please share them via email (cycleric@gmail.com) or by tagging me (Eric Cornwell) in your photos on Facebook.

New Twitter Account

Bikes Bring It is now on Twitter!

https://twitter.com/#!/BikesBringIt

I am now "tweeting" via SMS text to log fares, hours of operation, and anything else I deem fit while out pedicabbing. I avoided Twitter this long, but someday soon I'll probably wonder how I lived without it, just like with Facebook.

Produce Cart at Findlay Market

Shorty gets upgraded

My main pedicab has been seeing lots of action and improvements lately.

New tires - 3 Primo 20 x 2.1"

New seat - Serfas gel suspension seat

New lights - 2 Serfas USLR-R USB taillights

- 1 Serfas USL-5 Raider USB Headlight

New sound system - Gigaware portable docking station

New water bottle - BPA free, with Cycle Path Logo

New bell - identical to the previous one that lost its guts.

New light bar - one with red & white alternating

New brake pads - front & rear

New inner tubes - front & outrigger

Also added:

A wheelset from a girls Huffy coaster bike that was already painted white

Coroplast fin covering the outrigger wheel for safety and advertising space

Speedometer for tracking mileage, which ranges from 7-16 miles per night

Canvas wrap over pipe insulation on backrest for a more finished look

A makeshift turn signaling device set up under the driver seat using a taillight that illuminates bottom to top in 3 stages and can be rotated to make the series of lights point either left or right

Other maintenance:

Re-painted the third wheel in white

Greased bottom bracket

Greased hubs on the newly added Huffy wheels

Produce Cart Completed

The produce cart has been finished and delivered to Cincy. Here are some photos courtesy of Adam Birkan, who made the trip with me to document the occasion.

More photos at Adam Birkan's photo blog

The Sidearm

This new project is a sidecar with a different sort of auxiliary input. It has a hand-crank on the side! Thus the name, Sidearm.