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In England the Chat rickshaw bike is being used to transport elderly to the vaccination office. Bury St Edmunds offers free rickshaw deliveries and rides with their two rickshaw bikes, recently the Van Raam Chat rickshaw bike was added to this.
The free rickshaw service of the foundation Bury St Edmunds Rickshaw is used a lot since the corona pandemic. In the beginning of the crisis volunteers started delivering groceries and prescriptions bij rickshaw bike for people who need help. The volunteers of Bury St. Edmunds are very happy that they could now help people get to their vaccination appointments by rickshaw bike for free. "We can actually go out any of those days that they get their date for their vaccination, collect them from their home, take them to the vaccination centre, stay with them while they have the appointment and then take them back to their home," says volunteer Sam Reid to ITV.com.
Photo: Bury St. Edmunds Rickshaw
The service has about 50 volunteers doing up to 40 deliveries a day. Through the pandemic, they've already helped about 800 people with the rickshaws. One of the people in need is Margaret Wilkin, who hadn't been out in almost a year. "It's been absolutely wonderful, I couldn't have wished for anything more comfortable, or easier and we came back by the scenic route so had a lovely trip around the town. I felt like royalty! I mean I've got a rug over my knees like the Queen, I was waving at a friend who I passed in the street. It was lovely to getout", Margaret Wilkin says to ITV.com.
It's been absolutely wonderful, I couldn't have wished for anything more comfortable, or easier. I felt like royalty!
The Englisch rickshaw service recently got a new bike: the Chat rickshaw bike by Van Raam. The bike is donated by Jacobs Allen Chartered Accountants. Sheila Burke, director of Jacobs Allen Chartered Accountants, said in the East Anglian Daily Times: “We are so proud to have supported Bury Saint Edmunds Rickshaw from the beginning. The new bike is orange and very handsome, and will be popular for pleasure rides and deliveries long after we’re through this lockdown.”
Watch the video of ITV.com in which volunteers and people who need help, such as Margaret Wilkin, tells about the rickshaw service. At the end reporter Anglia's Tanya Mercer takes a ride at the Chat rickshaw bike by Van Raam.
The Chat rickshaw bike ismeant to ride together with people who are no longer able to participate in traffic on their own. With the rickshaw bike you can transport one of two people who are seated next to each other. The driver sits behind this cockpit and has an overview of the road, but also of the occupants. The Chat rickshaw bike comes standard with our electric pedal support, which make it a good bicycle taxi. Read more about this transport bike on the prodcut page.
To give people the opportunity to outside again, to raise new possibilities and perspectives and finally to let all people ride bicycles again — this is not unrealistic any more with Van Raam's Rickshaw Bicycle Chat. Read in this article what the Donaukurier says about our transport bike, what the reactions were like and all useful information about the Chat.
Van Raam's Chat rickshaw bike is designed to transport people who are no longer able to participate in traffic independently. In this article, we answer some frequently asked questions about this rickshaw bike.
For our photo shoot with the newest bike of the Van Raam family, the Rickshaw Bike Chat, we asked the nursing home Azora Debbeshoek in Ulft if they are interested in being models on the photos. Soon there were two friends who enjoyed spending a day with us and a professional photographer. During the photo shoot many curious residents came out to admire the chat. To thank Azora and her residents for the cooperation, the home care center was allowed to use the bike for one week, so that all interested elderly people could cycle together on the cargo bike chat.
Since May 2019, Van Raam has expanded its range of adapted bicycles with the transport bike Chat. With the Chat rickshaw bicycle it is possible for a bicycle driver to transport two passengers. Thanks to the specially designed cockpit where design and ergonomics come together, passengers can enjoy a comfortable bike ride together. Read more about the creation of this transport cargo bike in this article. And read how this social bicycle fights loneliness.
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