The Raleigh Rickshaw Company provides a fun and friendly transportation service new to Downtown Raleigh in Spring 2007. For trips that are too far to walk but too near to drive, hail a rickshaw and enjoy a clean, comfortable ride in a street legal, environmentally friendly vehicle. The next time you see a green bicycle carriage downtown, flag one down, and take a ride. Visit us online:

http://raleighrickshaw.com

People interested in driving for Raleigh Rickshaw. Be part of a unique and growing service for downtown Raleigh. If you have an outgoing personality and can pedal a bike, you would make a great bicycle rickshaw driver. Set your own hours, and get paid cash the same day. You can make anywhere from $100 to $300 in a four hour shift. We will train you and maintain the equipment. No experience necessary. Email drivers@raleighrickshaw.com or call 623-5555 for more information.

4/18/2008 5:59:00 PM

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"You can make anywhere from $100 to $300 in a four hour shift."

Riiiiiiiiight

4/18/2008 6:02:29 PM

I know this may be a typically american attitude, but I think rickshaws are the most insultingly dehumanizing professions ever, right beside prostitution. You're literally walking/pedaling so some other lardass doesn't have to. You're like a modern day big house slave.

4/18/2008 6:03:13 PM

You'd probably have more applicants if your company did a better job naming themselves

4/18/2008 6:03:16 PM

I have no problem with the name. It's simple and thorough.

4/18/2008 6:05:07 PM

How the hell do you make $25-$75 per hour in Raleigh?

4/18/2008 6:11:53 PM

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"I know this may be a typically american attitude, but I think rickshaws are the most insultingly dehumanizing professions ever, right beside prostitution."

You must not know any high-dollar prostitutes.

4/18/2008 6:13:52 PM

for a bike rickshaw, I'd pay less

feet power is where it's at

4/18/2008 7:41:59 PM

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4/18/2008 11:03:57 PM

Just use the homeless like Newman and Kramer did.

4/18/2008 11:50:03 PM

I'll take the job !

Potato Salad !

4/19/2008 12:00:41 AM

i had a friend that did this for a couple nights and he really did make around 150-200 a night

4/19/2008 11:21:53 AM

are they charging for this now?
or is it still the "give us however much money you think it was worth" thing

4/19/2008 11:25:45 AM

this is an awesome idea!

4/19/2008 11:26:23 AM

You know, I once knew a horse named Rusty, . . . no offense.

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4/19/2008 8:10:35 PM

I like the idea of working there ... anybody know someone who did it? Do they have any girls?

4/19/2008 8:19:45 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxNqHmZ4oLE

4/19/2008 8:23:37 PM

ladies, this would be a great way to get in shape....

[Edited on April 19, 2008 at 8:42 PM. Reason : w]

4/19/2008 8:42:30 PM

Not trying to promote or anything, but what he is saying about the $100-300 in a night, it's true. I have a friend that actively does this for amusement some nights. He likes meeting random people and he really does bank that in a night if it's busy.

4/19/2008 11:00:50 PM

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"How the hell do you make $25-$75 per hour in Raleigh?"

bartend

4/20/2008 11:32:40 AM

I totally almost rickshawjacked a dude in key west whilst drunk and pillaging duvall street, but I was really holding out for an orange scooter so I could go around singing "don't steal my sunshine"


it seemed like a much more entertaining idea than a taxi

4/20/2008 11:35:12 AM

More like http://raleighrickroll.com

4/20/2008 1:28:33 PM

I've thought about taking a ride on one of these up here in NYC, but they cost more than a taxi. Someone please tell me why the fuck I'd pick one of these over a taxi, lol.

4/20/2008 2:46:11 PM

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"but they cost more than a taxi."

good point not to ride one

i suppose you can laugh a lot by the fact you made some shumck bike your ass around?

4/20/2008 4:35:40 PM

from the website it looks like Raleigh Rickshaw charges whatever you want to pay ... like tips only

probably less than a taxi!

4/20/2008 5:55:42 PM

I don't care for that policy. I think it guilts people into paying MORE than they think it's worth so they won't be thought of as cheap. Charge a dang standard rate and let tips be extra.

4/20/2008 9:23:43 PM

btt

4/22/2008 2:15:02 PM

It costs more because it requires more effort.

I use to always get drunk in downtown Charleston and call the rickshaw instead of a cab. I guess it just seemed more fun to me when I was drunk. Girls seemed to like it too.


Will also add that they do make pretty good money...at least in Charleston. If I didn't bartend, the next job I would take is a Rickshaw job. They get paid and laid quite frequently. The stories I hear from the Rickshaw guys are fucking ridiculous.

[Edited on April 22, 2008 at 2:29 PM. Reason : .]

4/22/2008 2:23:33 PM

shit, i should do this just so my fatass is is bicycling people around instead of drinking

4/22/2008 3:01:05 PM

I used one the last time that I was in Charleston. The driver was a girl and was bitching about having to pedal up one of the "hills" down there, which maybe had a 1% grade. I told her that she wouldn't make it on Glenwood.

My best experience with the ones in Raleigh was four of us pooling our money, splitting up into two rickshaws and telling both drivers that whoever got there first would get $50 and the loser would get nothing. It ended up being a full contact competition with passengers leaning over the sides and hitting each other.

4/22/2008 3:59:03 PM

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"I used one the last time that I was in Charleston. The driver was a girl and was bitching about having to pedal up one of the "hills" down there, which maybe had a 1% grade. I told her that she wouldn't make it on Glenwood."

Was she blonde and at least semi-attractive??? Either way, she should give it up. Those pedicabs are fucking tough. Most of the guys who do it in Charleston are in ridiculous shape.


^And that's fucking awesome.

4/22/2008 4:06:30 PM

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"The stories I hear from the Rickshaw guys are fucking ridiculous. "

You know who else has good stories lies? That Tucker Max guy.

[Edited on April 22, 2008 at 4:18 PM. Reason : .]

4/22/2008 4:18:26 PM