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• 1. admin  |  November 19th, 2006 at 18:26

  Design at it’s best. What a wonderful product and the open source is such a powerful factor in helping this needed object spread.

  - T Falkowsky

• 2. Naina Redhu  |  November 21st, 2006 at 13:10

  Thanks for sharing. I write a blog on Innovation and have posted about this there. [ http://www.aside.in/blog/innovation/2006/11/21/the-bicycle-ambulance/ ]

• 3. Jay Lee  |  December 1st, 2006 at 09:33

  Wow. This is just a very simple thing to add onto the back of an ordinary bicycle and it serves the purpose of an ambulance? What an idea! The simpler, the better for sure. I really like the fact that this was originally thought up by a graduate in Vancouver. Although the speed of a bicycle could be too slow compared to the car ambulances these days, sometimes it’s faster to just go with it than to wait for your ambulance. I’m a little concerned with the stability of it. However, it serves its purpose and definitely is definitely needed.

• 4. AYEKO JULIUS  |  March 11th, 2008 at 01:23

  Many thanks please ,I woulid like to have a project in Uganda for the bicycle Ambulance.What I need is capital and I have manpower for that.The demand is high and I will be happy for that.

  In God we trust.

• 5. Canadian Cycle  |  July 26th, 2008 at 09:11

  That is a wonderful, simple and practical project. Thank you for sharing. Now all we need is the money and that is a tough job.

• 6. Hannes Schindler  |  March 9th, 2009 at 03:06

  It’s good to critisize motorized transport and to support and develop alternatives where-ever possible.

  But sick people should be the first ones to be transported by motorized means. It’s a shame how the number of cars is increasing worldwide even in the poorest countries and for which purposes they are used. It’s a political demand that motorized transport should be made available everywhere for sick people.

• 7. Michael Erdmann  |  March 9th, 2009 at 11:22

  Thanks for the comment Hannes. I agree with you in spirit, but in practice this design has a lot of advantages. It isn’t a critique of motorized transport, it’s a pragmatic solution to the problem: Automobiles are expensive to run and maintain… they require gasoline, oil, new parts, equipment, skilled labor and other infrastructure. Bicycles on the other hand are cheap and easy.

• 8. Hannes Schindler  |  April 22nd, 2009 at 04:31

  Bicycles have many advantages compared to motorized locomotion. Bicycle ambulances can be used in some cases, but usually cars are the better ambulances. For example when i worked in rural Rwanda the next hospital was 15km away. During one year there were about 9 or ten very urgent cases or accidents where i had to bring people to this hospital with our private car cause it was the only one around. The way was hilly, 5 times it was at night. I am 100% sure that several lifes were saved by this immediate motorised transport and several people wouldn’t have survived if there had been just bicycle ambulances.

  I am a convinced cyclist but i am promoting car ambulances.
  Hannes Schindler from Karlsruhe – the town where the man who invented the bicycle was born and died

• 9. The CANADIAN DESIGN RESOU&hellip  |  April 26th, 2009 at 17:53

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• 10. patrick ongom komakech  |  November 11th, 2009 at 08:18

  I need to send a proposal to aquire these bicycles ambulances to my rural village in Zombo District. Is it posible?

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