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Old 09-09-09 | 05:24 PM
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So tomorrow i start my first day as a pedi-cab driver! I'm excited to get paid to ride a bike around!
Anyone else here ever drive a pedi-cab???

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Old 09-10-09 | 06:53 AM
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So tomorrow i start my first day as a pedi-cab driver! I'm excited to get paid to ride a bike around!
Anyone else here ever drive a pedi-cab???
Can't say that I have, but good luck and good business.

The closest I've done to a pedicab was that in Boston one time, I was the only passenger on a 7 passenger party bike and the driver and I flew down the street.

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Old 09-10-09 | 01:06 PM
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one of the local shop owners has one of those, he calls it "the conference bike"
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Old 09-10-09 | 01:47 PM
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So tomorrow i start my first day as a pedi-cab driver! I'm excited to get paid to ride a bike around!
Anyone else here ever drive a pedi-cab???
Only got to test ride one after servicing it for a customer. It was a really well made unit, although I can't remember the make. I think I remember the owner telling be he bought it from the builder in Kansas city or some place like that.
He didn't run a pedicab service or anything like that, he just used it to haul his family around.
It weighed a ton, but it was a fun ride.



Edit: I just blew up the photo so I could read the name on the downtube. (These old eyes ya know) It says "Main Street."

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Old 10-09-09 | 11:32 PM
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Good Luck! I hope you at least break after paying the rent to the company that owns the pedicab.
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Old 10-10-09 | 08:34 PM
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So how's the pedicab riding coming along?
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Old 10-11-09 | 04:35 PM
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i ride peddicab here in chicago. ive been doing it for 5 years now. today i rode the chicago marathon. we got hired to carry a film crew so they could film runners. i had a camera guy and director and all there equipment with. ive done alot of long rides but 26 miles a bit much. its still the best job ever. oh and the cab that is pictured above is a mainstreet there out of colorado and are pretty much the industry stander-ed here in the us.
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