And it looks good! Liking the braze-on for the shifter, not quite so sure about the largest saddle I've ever seen!

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Nice. I agree about the seat. Seeing the bike in that setting I just can't help thinking that it would make a nice table. It would be neat if some how you could move the wheels in and the edges of the table out. That way if you saw some sitting on a park bench you could ride right up to them and it would be just as if they were sitting at a table at home. Even have one of those laced doily things, cups and saucers, the whole spread on top. One moment a person is just sitting on a bench in the city and bam, the next their sitting at a nice full frontal Victorian tea table. How could a person possibly say "No" to some thing like that?

Sadly, time and profit wait for no man! It's serve the customer, then on to the next one. Imagine how long it would take to make a decent wage if your food service vehicle was also their tea table for 30 mins each time.....

Nice idea though...

I wasn't thinking you'd hang around for the full 30 minutes though. But yeah, if it's too comfy, they will probably want to chat too. Either you'd have to include a chit chat sur charge or perhaps give them a toll free number to chat with a service representative in India something. Ooh wait, a wi-fi chat simulation mp3. Okay I'm getting too silly. But I think think the surreal table thing in combination with Pavlovian reflex action would work. And of course, including the economic reality of hit and run tactics.

The surreal table could be a permanent tea setting glued to the lid ;)

I think the top is going to end up working as a serving table. I'll attach some sort of easy fold-out leg, so it can be opened and the cups placed on it while people faff about with milk etc. Thank goodness I don't have to ride it though - I sat on it, and with the seat at the highest, my knees hit the bars!

I was thinking about this on the ride home. You intend to hit large groups, right? Like rush hour at a tube stop or a local street fair. Maybe you've mentioned this before, but another potential market might local group meetings that don't have any food services. I passed our town hall this evening and the town council meeting was taking a break. There were about 30 people just hanging around out side, some of them smoking. But that got me thinking. Perhaps you could of reach an agreement with these local groups that if they would have a break at a pre set time, that you could arrange be there. You only have to be present at the moment of the break; after, you could move to the next group. If you could time the distance between places and keep a standard break time maybe you could schedule a bunch in one series.

You know, that's a bright idea. I like it.

I do not know how things are over there, but over here mostly those kinds of things disappeared in the 1950's. The problem is that the kind of people who are willing to work at the kind of wage you will be able to afford to pay, are also the kind of people who can figure out that they will get a lot more money selling your tricycle. It is one thing to do something like that because you see it as a fun way to make a subsistence income, it is something else doing it as a business investment with hired workers.

OTH, I knew some folks who did that with a coffee cart, but their purpose was really to advertise their catering business. That seemed to work fairly well for them, but when they eventually had all the catering business they could handle they got rid of the cart. I believe it was the same problem I mentioned above, they could not find reliable people who would work for what they could afford to pay them.

I do wish you luck in the endeavor however,

Perhaps you could of reach an agreement with these local groups that if they would have a break at a pre set time, that you could arrange be there. You only have to be present at the moment of the break; after, you could move to the next group. If you could time the distance between places and keep a standard break time maybe you could schedule a bunch in one series.


Much like a catering truck. :p

Any updates????
Is the business started??

inquiring minds want to know