October 2015 His Wheels International (HWI) attended the first annual Chicago Unconventional Bike Expo (CUBE) located in the Chicagoland area. CUBE has given us the okay to form an International Hand-Pedaled Trike Track that will run within the bigger CUBE convention.
Join HWI and the International Hand-Pedaled trike track for the CUBE to be held September 30- October 2, 2016 at the Tinley Park Convention Center.
Evvy Campbell has told me repeatedly that “Development work is done by building one relationship at a time.”
On January 8, 2016 three organizations doing develop,ent mobility work in Africa connected by phone. The call included Alice Teisan and Kevin Nikolich with His Wheels International, Will Austin with BUV, and Joy Hazucha with Cheetah Development.
BUV has designed a basic utility vehicle. There mission is to create unique transportation solutions, which relieve daily burdens and empower sustainable economic development to help transform communities in Africa and beyond.
Cheetah Development has several projects. The mobility business project they are preparing to launch is the Kabisa Heavy Load Bicycle with a load capacity of 1,000 lbs can travel over the roughest trails. Kabisa bikes will be manufactured in Africa. (more…)
The New Year began with a His Wheels trike traveling to Jakarta, Indonesia with a team from the MIT D-Lab. Matt McCambridge, the MIT faculty member leading the trip was taking an HWI trike along with Free Wheelchair Missions Gen 4 to test them side by side. Matt wrote the initial trike test guidelines for a comparative trike study (2013-2014) conducted in Jakarta, Indonesia. We look forward to hearing the follow-up from MIT.
On January 13, 2016 NOWPDP design challenge launched a first of its kind trike design challenge. The challenge highlights 5 important design features, Highly Accident Prone (Center of Gravity), Requires High Exertion (ergonomics and gear ratio issues), Uncomfortable (ergonomics), Incompact [not compact], and Unsightly.
Alice Teisan is honored to be part of the international judging board for the challenge, made possible because the judging will occur virtually.
Alice Teisan encourages those in Pakistan to enter the Cycle Design Challenge that is launching on January 13, 2016.
Alice will be one of the international judges for the design challenge. To learn more about the design challenge visit http://www.nowpdp.org/the-rickshaw-project/
Video credits: David Herwaldt, Student at College of DuPage, studying Video Production.