Move over food trucks.....

[William]

Food Bikes are moving in....

When upscale food trucks roared into popularity a few years ago, the folks running them praised their rolling operations as far cheaper and simpler to launch than a bricks-and-mortar restaurant.

Now, entrepreneurs are finding similar advantages in food bikes.

Brewers, chefs, baristas and even farmers are turning to pedal-powered vehicles to bring their goods to consumers — and, sometimes, actually produce them on the street.....

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/01/16/371688456/food-trucks-share-the-lane-food-bikes-are-merging-into-the-business










William

[eBAUMANN]

Boston has The Coffee Trike (http://www.thecoffeetrike.com/The_Coffee_Trike/Home.html)!

San is a heckuva nice dude!

http://www.thecoffeetrike.com/The_Coffee_Trike/About_files/BrianAt%20Work.jpg

[donevwil]

Trailhead Coffee Roasters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diz2kG1L-5A) has shown up on all the recent Cycle Oregons I've done. Super fit and great coffee.

[CMiller]

Imagine changing a flat on that thing...

Great idea, I wouldn't be able to steer those guys in traffic though!

[beeatnik]

http://www.laweekly.com/restaurants/epicurus-101-brings-the-first-solar-powered-gelato-truck-to-pasadena-4990873

Saw this sucker last year, parked in front of a print shop in an industrial section of Pasadena. I was on my way home from a group ride and pulled over to take a pic. The owner came out and interrogated me, then asked me to not photograph the contraption since he didn't want "the world's first solar powered bike food truck" to be all over the web before it "launched." I told the dude I didn't have facebook or instagram. Then rode off. Cool story, right?

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8565/16111169448_b7f5fd05e0_o.jpg

[ericssonboi]

Very cool idea of the Gelato contraption... interesting story to back it..
Now this has given me the idea to think about..

[avalonracing]

Food Bikes are moving in....

William

Great remark in the comments section of the original article:

"I live in a neighborhood with a large amount of immigrants and they've been delivering food and ice cream on trikes way longer than a bunch of Portland hipsters. Of course, since they are immigrants, media outlets don't spend any time praising their entrepreneurial spirit and companies aren't rushing in to serve them with new bike designs and venture capital."

That said, I want coffee bikes everywhere!

[mvrider]

Having just flown back from Viet Nam, where ladies still sell all manner of foods and household goods from the backs of bicycles, as they have for 50 years or more, I can't get too excited about some hipsters selling coffee.

http://40.media.tumblr.com/30376f281c5eeda0370b3711a76cf3ec/tumblr_n62775oNBD1rwhogyo1_500.jpg

http://reviews.mtbr.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/veggie_vendor_bike.jpg

[William]

What was old is new again. Rediscovery, happens all the time.








William

[gemship]

What was old is new again. Rediscovery, happens all the time.








William

Absolutely. Here in America we take the cake for "1st world problems". As a friend of mine would often say to me regarding automation and the digital age..."We have become so smart that we are stupid".

[Repack Rider]

This is the "Tofu Trailer," an insulated bike trailer built by a friend in 1981 to deliver tofu from the supplier to local health food stores. At bicycle events he would fill it with cold drinks.

Shown here is designer and owner Marc Horwitz. At the time my roommate was Kent Bostick, who made the Olympic cycling team four times and was also National Road Champion. Now and then he would accept the challenge of the tofu run, just for the exercise.

The Fat Tire flyer was the first magazine for mountain bikers, which I published from 1980 to 1987.

[Idris Icabod]

Back in England, my buddy from university bought 2 rickshaws after graduating moved to a south coast seaside town and started Rick's rickshaws. He went in to our local corner shop (mostly food) run by a Pakistani fellow who would get you anything you wanted and asked for a couple, which at the time I thought no chance but he did get them. This was about 25 years ago, not sure he made a go of it.

[evo111@comcast.net]

At the Resolution Cross Races in Garland, TX Was Kinda cool. The hot chocolate was tasty!