Carrying clean drinking water… by bike!

At present the only way that millions of the world’s poor people can get clean drinking water is to walk to the nearest well (which can be many miles away) fill a container and carry it home on their heads. The Cargocycle can carry eight gallons of drinking water across rough terrain four times faster than a heavily loaded person can walk. Effectively one rider could do the work of eight people… and do it in a quarter of the time.

The advantage of this design is that the weight of the water and rider is above and forwards of the rear wheel which is directly driving the machine forwards. This eliminates any
tendency to ‘wheelspin’ in soft or uneven ground.

The capability of this machine to carry a heavy weight across poor surface/uneven territory would be incomparably better than an ordinary bicycle pulling a trailer.

A cargo cycle frame would not be restricted to a water container alone. A manufacturer could make a series of body shells in various materials to allow the machine to be a
versatile load carrier with many uses.

This would allow the cycles to form the basis of a transport system for fertilizer, seeds, medicines, tools, produce, etc.

The most decisive advantage the machine has is that it is a single track vehicle. In a poor rural area the pathways are only single track (by walking) or twin track (by trucks) Nowhere is there a three track path required by a Bike/trailer combination.