BooGood Bicycles - "The Power to Do Good"
There are nearly half a billion individuals with disabilities in developing countries, and 20 million are in desperate need of assistive mobility devices. A variety of organizations distribute wheelchairs to people in need, but they are not designed for use on unpaved roads in developing countries. Our solution is an attachable hand-cycle designed for use on unpaved roads, donated to the people in need.
BooGood Bicycles is a socially minded venture that enables customers to empower disabled individuals in developing countries. BooGood Bicycles operates on a "buy one, give one" principle, for every bamboo bicycle we sell, an attachable handcycle is donated to a disabled individual in Africa.The BooGood Bamboo Bike is much more than just a unique and eco-friendly bike, it represents a social movement of becoming aware of an important global issue and acting upon it to create change. No other bike on the market comes with a story like it. Your purchase truly has "The Power to Do Good."
Boo Good bicycle operate on a buy one, give one standard, for every wicker mass bicycle we sell good facebook status, an removable pass cycle is donate to a disable human life form in Africa
I think having bikes like this will benefit so many people in these countries. They will be able to ride these bikes anywhere. I just love the idea here. CCNA training
Derrick,
We like your idea and will share it with members of our Board (Sustainable Resources, Ltd). Hopefully we will soon be able to help to get you started in Kenya.
I like both! I would want the bike even without the social good that comes with it. How are you planning on distributing the handbikes to people that need them? Are you manufacturing them here and then shipping them to developing countries? Kind of like Tom's shoes? Do you know how much you are going to be selling the bikes for? I would definitely be interested in buying one! I can be one of your first customers :)
Also, vote for us in the Dell Social Innovation Challenge. We are currently one of the 200 semi-finalists out of an application pool of over 1,700 teams across the globe. Any support would help! Thanks!
Cool, thanks for letting us know. We like what TOMS shoes are doing, but we want to actually develop an infrastructure in Africa where locals will actually manufacture the hand-cycles, with the funding that we provide from each bike sale.We are actually planning on setting up small manufacturing facilities in Kenya, Africa where we will train and employ locals to build the attachable hand-cycles. The reason why we are going to be setting up manufacturing facilities in Africa is so we can keep the manufacturing cost very low and we can provide jobs that pay very well. So we use local manufacturing, along with cheap, locally sustainable materials. This is why our whole identity is based on bamboo. Bamboo is readily available in most developing countries at almost no cost, so it allows us to set up manufacturing in those countries with very cheap locally available materials.
As far as buying a bike, that will probably have to wait until later this year, as we do not have the necessary funding yet to startup small scale manufacturing in Arizona. We are still looking into what the retail price of the bike will be, but it will be significantly cheaper than any bamboo bike currently on the market. We are also going to offer a few classes a year where we actually teach ASU students to build their own bamboo bike for a cheaper price. We teach the entire class, no special skills are needed, and anyone has the ability to build one. This may be more appealing to you if you like to build things, the satisfaction of building you own bike is a really good feeling.
oh alright, that sounds like a good plan though. Im not sure if I would be interested in building my own bike, but I could see why some people might want to do that. Is it hard to build one?
It doesn't require any special skills, but it does require a bit of work. It's a pretty fun process though from start to finish. It's very rewarding once you are all finished and actually riding it around, it makes you want to ride it wherever you go. I love riding it around and having people ask me about it and then I get to tell them why I want to build bamboo bikes to help people.
Crystle, what interests you more, the bike, or the social good that comes with buying one? I am interested in people's responses as a lot of people have different opinions.
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