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When Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi stepped out on state television yesterday to announce it was raining, the strange vehicle he was in was a Tuk-Tuk, which is a type of enclosed, motorcycle or bike-powered rickshaw. His may be armored. More »
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In celebration of the launch of the Mini Cooper Clubman in the Chinese market, Mini has chopped the back half off a handful of cars so they can be converted into rickshaws. Mini is no doubt trying to capitalize on the global spotlight placed on Beijing with some kind of sporting festival going on right now, but if they had asked us, we would have done things differently. More »
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We remember when our old office moved from 625 Polk Street in San Francisco (the building featured in Dirty Harry where Callahan tricks the suicide jumper) to 10 UN Plaza, a place on Market Street with what's most likely the highest concentration of homeless per square foot in the entire city. One of our co-workers said of the new location, "It's a nice building. It's too bad you have to walk through Calcutta to get there." Calcutta, trying to stem the tide of untoward comments like this, has decided to ban rickshaws from its streets. After China made the great leap past the human-powered devices in 1949, Calcutta stands as one of the only cities in the world to use the rickshaw as a major form of transit. More »
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