I started Pedal Power Bike Taxi in Tempe, Arizona as an idea, slowly studying the physics and movement necessary to create top-notch custom designs for our fleet.
Spending late nights at my friend's CAD station, calculating measurements, and drafting ideas until we figured out the best way to create two and three-seater's for our fleet....it wasn't easy, nor was trying to make it home one night after printing a finished model for the cabs.
I left at 11pm to catch the last bus at 11:15 back home, so I didn't have to ride back........I started out of the apartment riding confident, knowing I had just opened the door for my ticket out of the hell that Arizona pedal-cabbies have made the Valley of the Sun. Having ridden for other cab companies for two years, making money, but getting robbed by the owners, paying exorbitant lease rates to overly arrogant and cut-throat hustlers, and fighting off the over 80 cabs for the chance to pull home the fabled "HD"....the hundred dollar tip !
As I left the gated entrance, I was accelerating on my bike around a col-d-sac, and launched into the worldwide Work Bike Industry with the hottest designs available to date. I later moved to Burlington to retire with a new business no one ever had even dreamed of creating, and have been looking to branch out to find development funding, as well as trying to produce our prototypes in Burlington as a proving ground for our designs.
SEVEN DAYS even called us to set up a photo shoot and an interview two days before they were going to print!!!
I approached Channel 5's Stuart Ledbetter, and arranged an in depth interview, and regional expose of our services here, which was then broadcast all over New England on NECN.
We were made-men after that....and my phone has been ringing off the hook since then 'till 3:30am!!!!!
Just wait to see what prototypes we are going to roll out on the town next!
