April, 2016 Newsletter

  By AT | April 1, 2016 - 2:34 am |
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April 2016 Newsletter

Below is a newsletter overview with some new website links:

We have two new videos that can be viewed at His Wheels Videos.

Alice will be a virtual judge for a Pakistan Accessible Design Challenge. You can learn about the competition at NOWPDP.org

In June we hope to send two trikes with Basic Utility Vehicles (BUV) to Tanzania. Learn more about BUV at Basic Utility Vehicle Website.

Our network around the world keeps growing. Maxim and his brother Evgenii began building a virtual handbike community in 2013 for a Russian Speaking audience within Eastern Europe. They have 425 members. Thanks to internet translation you can browse their website at Handbikes Russia.

His Wheels International at CUBE 2015

  By AT | January 27, 2016 - 7:56 pm | , ,
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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.

Networking

  By AT | January 16, 2016 - 5:37 pm |
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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…)

Jakarta, Indonesia with MIT D-Lab

  By AT | January 16, 2016 - 5:05 pm | ,
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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.

NOWPDP Accessible Cycle Design Challenge, Pakistan

  By AT | January 16, 2016 - 4:49 pm |
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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.

Pakistan Cycle Design Challenge Charge

  By AT | January 11, 2016 - 12:17 am |
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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.