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Nigeria

  By AT | May 22, 2015 - 6:30 pm | ,
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On May 9, 2015 Kevin Nikolich, our His Wheels International design engineer met with Ayuba Gufwan in Grand Rapids Michigan. Ayuba is from Nigeria and part of Beautiful Gates/Wheelchairs for Nigeria. The purpose of the meeting was to deliver a HWI trike and discuss how HWI could partner with Wheelchairs for Nigeria, assisting with trike design related issues.

Alice was not able to attend the meeting but talked with Ayuba. His opening greeting was, “Thanks for your vision.” Truth be told, Ayuba was the one who inspired the HWI trike Di-Vision.

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Senior Capstone Project Presentation 2015

  By AT | April 17, 2015 - 9:19 pm | , ,
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Today Kevin and Alice went to Olivet Nazarene University. There we heard the final presentation from our HWI Senior Design Team, which consisted of 3 mechanical engineer students: Loren, David and Alex. For their Senior Capstone Project they were given the challenge of coming up with cargo option for the His Wheels International Dual Offset Tube Trike. When they went to prototype the cargo design they received help from Sam, a 2nd year student. Great Job Loren, David and Alex on your exceptional work.
Kevin, His Wheels Design Engineer is driving. Alice, His Wheels Executive Director is riding in the cargo trailer. Standing from left to right is David, Sam, Alex, Loren.

Kevin, His Wheels Design Engineer is driving. Alice, His Wheels Executive Director is riding in the cargo trailer. Standing from left to right is David, Sam, Alex, Loren.

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Olivet Nazarene University’s 2015 Senior Design Engineering Team: Loren driving, Alex on extra seat option and David in the Cargo trailer.
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Trike, passenger seat, and Cargo Trailer from behind

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Cargo Trailer with a curved back handle. When the trailer is unhitched from the trike it can be used as a wheelbarrow.

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Cargo Hitch, back seat, and black under seat carrying area.

 

Trike Community Forum

  By AT | March 6, 2015 - 9:47 pm |
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Sign in today and and join our new trike community forum and pass the information along to others who may have an interest in the grassroots work of hand-pedaled three-wheels (trikes) for those in need around the world.

How did this come about? On February 18, 2015 there was a first of its kind, six hour meeting, gathering some of those involved in mobility work around the world. (more…)

How’s your Bike?

  By AT | August 21, 2014 - 1:40 am |
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This week Alice ran into a family that was beneficiaries of our bike ministry. Alice asked the two elementary school age children, “How’s your bike?” The youngest, about 7 years old said, “we did a 20 mile ride this summer.” What fun to know that the legacy of HWI’s bicycle lives on and this family had the joy of reaching a new mile marker of a 20 mile ride. (more…)

Networking

  By AT | August 9, 2014 - 3:35 pm |
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On Thursday August 7th Alice met with Tim from Servlife ministries. We networked and brainstormed about possible ways that His Wheels Trike and manufacturing process could work within Servlife’s mission to help the people in Nepal, India. One thing about development work, it happens through the process of building one relationship at a time.

It is always an adventure when meeting with those from other organizations. There’s no telling how HWI’s trike will inspire another person. (more…)

His Wheels Next Chapter Begins Today

  By AT | May 1, 2014 - 11:02 am |
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Today His Wheels enters the next chapter of our journey. We have four young men helping us move out of our office. HWI will move into a 10×25 foot Storage Unit. We have already begun to set it up as a showroom. All we need will fit nicely into our new climate controlled space. We have no regrets as we move. Our 4 years at our building has allowed us to do so many things. In the process we at HWI have found that our trike and university trike consortium is our unique nitch and strength.

Our main contact will remain unchanged:

His Wheels International

P.O. Box 423

Wheaton, IL 60187

630-510-1005

info@hiswheels.org

Beginning His Wheels International’s 9th year

  By AT | April 28, 2014 - 11:08 pm |
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Exciting things are happening with His Wheels this week. By Saturday we will have moved out of our office space and into a storage unit. This will allow us to spend more of our energies on building our trike consortium. (more…)