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.
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.
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What is CUBE? Chicagoland Unconventional Bicycle Expo.
His Wheels International will be there. We hope to see you there too!
The nation’s largest show for recumbents, recumbent tricycles, quadracycles, folding cycles, tandems, velomobiles, transporters, electrical bikes, special needs bikes, collectibles, carbo bikes, trailers, customized designs and accessories.
All three days will be filled with informative educational seminars, product demonstrations, and other events for dealers and bike enthusiasts. (more…)
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.
Alice Teisan was nominated for She is Noble.
International Visionary A former cyclist brings hope to the disabled across the globe.You can read the article by Heather Cate and listen to the podcast at the She is Noble site.
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.
Trike, passenger seat, and Cargo Trailer from behind
Cargo Trailer with a curved back handle. When the trailer is unhitched from the trike it can be used as a wheelbarrow.
Cargo Hitch, back seat, and black under seat carrying area.
You can hear the WJCH Family Radio, Community Issue broadcast from Saturday March 7, 2015 by clicking below. The broadcast updates listeners on the ministry of His Wheels International.