Anyone know anything about the white covered bikes with the flames
painted on the side. They just went past me along side Lake Harriet.
The next roller blades? (Although they were on the road.)
Steven Clift
Carag Resident
The flaming eggs are actually tricycle HPVs (human powered vehicles).
They are called cab bikes, and can be found on the internet at:
http://www.cab-bike.de/english/paginaframe.htm
They are well-engineered German vehicles -- tought to import because of some absurd tarrif and liability regs in the USA, I understand. these HPVs can be found throughout Europe, and are wonderful, safe, environmentally-friendly vehicles which also require no gasoline.
I've been triking from job to job as usual today, and had a chance to meet with some Mpls Park & forestry folks to look over a prototype HPV fromLightfootcycles which could be used in some of our parks as a superb, inexpensive, environmentally-friendly, and quiet utility vehicle. We've a ways to go, but the workers and administrative staff seemed open and even enthusiastic about the possibility.
If list members would like to try out an HPV or find more info I'd be very pleased to let you ride one of my cargo or pedicab HPVs, or to get you in touch with folks who ride a range of vehicles here in town -- including the flaming eggs.
I believe that the choice to design one's life to walk and use an HPV as one's primary urban transportation is the single most important choice we can make to transform our city, bioregion, and our world into peaceful and just expressions of human civilization.
Most of us can choose to design our lives in this way if we choose to do so. Some of us cannot make active transportation (walking and pedaling) our primary form of transportation, but we can include more active transportation in our lives. Some of us cannot travel through our city in physically active ways, but can try to choose the most sustainable means of transportation availab le to us.
Note the recent study publishes in the American Journal of Health which affirms one dimension of this life-and-death issue. Most people are not even aware of the impacts of our urban transportation choices on ourselves and the generations which will likely be cut short because of our "knowledgeable ignorance".
See one report on the study from the Seattle Times at this link:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0903-11.htm
I believe that the city of Minneapolis can be transformed for great good by citizens who realize that democracy and citizenship are not primarily about voting or political parties.
We must create democracy with our lives, our personal choices, and our relationships prior to and alongside political engagement.
Let's vote with our lives. Let's design our lives to be the change we need to see.
And flaming eggs around Lake Harriet are a wonderful change!
-- pedaling for peace and justice!
Gary Hoover
Kingfield
