Posts about 'Bike Services'

Retail & Commercial Services by Bike

Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by Melanie Meyers.

Bicycles are an excellent way to do business.  Whether you are advertising your business by bike (aka bikevertising), transporting customers around town in a pedicab, moving your business or vending station around town by bike, picking up trash by bike, or any other range of services, bicycles provide a unique, cost-effective, and eye-catching way to [...]

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Bicycle Land Services

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by Melanie Meyers.

It’s been quite some time since we wrote about cycling services here at Utility Cycling.org.  When we set out to define utility cycling, we came up with three subcategories related to the topic of cycling services, including retail and commercial services, emergency and patrol services, and land services.  We did a four-part series in late [...]

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Fire Service Bicycle Update

Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by Melanie Meyers.

We recently published a series here at Utility Cycling dedicated entirely to emergency and patrol cycling services.  The series about that included posts on police bicycles, emergency medical service (EMS) bicycles, fire service bicycles, and search and rescue bicycles.  Header image credit: Palatine Bike Medic Team
The purpose of the series was to explore the ways [...]

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Search and Rescue Bike Services

Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by Melanie Meyers.

Our final post in the four-part series dedicated to emergency and patrol services by bike is all about search and rescue.  We have already covered police bicycles, EMS (emergency medical service) bikes, and fire service bikes.  Search and rescue (SAR) service by bike is closely related to EMS services by bike, but with a slightly [...]

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Fire Service Bicycles

Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by Melanie Meyers.

Our last two posts were dedicated to bicycle police and emergency medical service bicycles.  Our next post in the four-part series dedicated to the utility of using a bicycle for emergency and patrol services will focus on fire service bicycles.  It will admittedly be a rather short post, as it would appear that the use [...]

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EMS Bikes

Posted on 20. Nov, 2009 by Melanie Meyers.

Our last post was dedicated to bicycle police, and the utility of using the bicycle as a vehicle for patrol and law enforcement.  Next up in our now 4-part series dedicated to emergency and patrol cycling services are EMS (emergency medical service) bicycles.  Originally, I had identified three categories of emergency and patrol cycling services [...]

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Police Bikes

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by Melanie Meyers.

At Utility Cycling.org, we view the idea of utility cycling as encompassing all kinds of cycling activities in which people are using bicycles to accomplish important tasks such as getting to work, delivering packages, selling things, catching bad guys, and saving lives.  Wait what?  Catching bad guys?  Saving lives?  By bicycle?  And why not, what [...]

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Mobile Bike Businesses

Posted on 16. Sep, 2009 by Melanie Meyers.

I was inspired to learn more about mobile bike businesses after reading two recent posts on BikePortland.org about a mobile coffee shop and a mobile beer and pizza pub.  (Header image found here).
So what exactly is a mobile bike business?  It seems to me that a mobile bike business has a different kind of flair [...]

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Cycling Services

Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by Melanie Meyers.

The next major category of utility cycling that we would like to examine is cycling services.  In our first post, we identified a number of different services that can easily be done via bicycle.  Among them:

Retail and Commercial Services
Emergency and Patrol Services
Land Services

For the time being, we have separated out the category of bicycle delivery [...]

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