I’ve seen a couple businesses on wheels. There is a local guy who rides around with the tools to fix bikes. He helps stranded cyclists who don’t have the tools or know how to do anything but walk their bike the rest of the way home.
And of course there are the party buses where some person, who likely doesn’t get paid enough, drives a bunch of drunk, loud partiers around the city, letting them stop off at local bars until they are too drunk to get served in public.
We do not however have a bar on two wheels. These guys, Edward Godden and Joseph Lewis, started the Travelling Gin Co. They bring the booze to where a well mixed gin and tonic is needed. The idea came to them quite by accident.
“Joe took an old butcher bicycle for the journey [a trip from London to Amsterdam], and attached a spirit optic to the front of the frame. He served drinks when they stopped off for the evening…it all developed from there,” says Godden.
We have a “no public drinking” law in Massachusetts so we won’t see one of these businesses pop up anytime soon. Something tells me if they set up next to the lunchtime food trucks on campus, they would be a huge success, and all productivity would cease.
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I’m still amazed by MA’s ridiculous liquor laws. And am still amazed by how free and easy CA is with booze. Food truck culture is HUGE here in SF, and apparently this business is going to capitalize: http://sanfrancisco.grubstreet.com/2012/08/beer-wine-truck-soma-street-food-park.html
If we had one of these where the other MIT foodtrucks park, no one would accomplish anything. As I like to say, MA is the most conservative liberal state in the country.
I was bummed I missed you during your visit. Couldn’t make it to the Muddy that night. Hopefully I’ll catch you next time around!
I was totally bummed, too! You weren’t in on Friday, I guess? And I saw you in your office when I first came in on Thursday, but I was totally sweaty and gross from the bike ride to campus and I didn’t want to grace you with such a gross presence (though I caught Tracy in that state…oops?) You aren’t heading out here next month for Internet Librarian, are you?