From a Bike to Fastfood Trike

Shown here is a picture of a bike converted to a trike to help its owner sell fastfood on the roadside of the Cebu City Hall. This expanded bike, which has been converted to a fastfood trike for a living caters to government and private employees who go out of their offices to take their midday snacks or lunch. The owner sells hanging rice to be paired with ngohiong that make for a very affordable and delightful finger meal dipped in spicy gravy sauce.

From bikes to trikes

As often as I ride my bike I always run into some trikes transformed out of common bikes to serve a variety of people's needs. This is a baker's trike, one of the many bikes converted to trikes to make for a living. Even small to medium scale businesses resort to this strategy to cut on fuel and rental costs while at the same time improving product accessibility to their customers. This picture portray such case in a form of mobile store for baked goods. I was off-guarded when I took this picture and found out later that a woman on another trike ( background) was selling her goods. From the looks of it, she was selling snack goodies and either ice-candies or bottled mineral waters in a styrofoam container.

I wonder if a good number of people ever give these ingenuity special importance. To me, however, it is something to appreciate at.