I'm affixing a carla cargo bike trailer upon which my 2 warboys sit to pelt you with expired weiners and stale, hard bread rolls
7bicycles
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I feel like your average 500ml cup with 400ml in there and like a bread roll makes a fine quick streetfood meal. I don't want like a gallon of soup
I don't think you really need designated lanes, just become less carbrained. No one questions the gaggle of idiots doing 1km trips in their cars that produce 10 times as much congestion as one beer bike, or people just turning a driving lane into impromptu parking because they can't be bothered to get a parking spot. This clearly wasn't about smooth traffic flow, this was to placate malding car drivers
When I did eventually find streetfood soup I was just given what is basically your standard waxed paper soda cup except not filled to the top so you could hold it there and a flat wooden spoon which supermarkets here sell for like 0,30€ for their salads and that worked out fine.
You can theoretically ship of theseus a steel bike into pretty much forever, the question is whether that actually happens. I know when I wanted to get one of my frames welded back together every bike shop refused on insurance based reasons, which is where I assume most people stop trying and just scrap it whichever way, because at that point you either gotta know how to weld or know a guy or business who's happy to do under the table deals for this type of thing and also trusts you won't rat them out
You mean like the beer bikes where you collectively pedal a giant ass contraption while getting shitfaced or more like this type of stuff but it serves drinks?
Beer bikes have mostly disappeared by being banned via local ordinance because it held up actual traffic, like some guy driving his car across town to get a doner kebap, the latter you do see occasionally but they're often more of a coffee bike and we also sell Aperol Spritzes and some bottled beer type thing
Half these criticisms feel odd. I can't manufacture new hotdogs in my street food stand, they're coming from somewhere offsite anyways, seems easy enough to replicate with soup.
Cooking is just sort of dangerous to begin with, I feel like "Stable surface, possibly a cage, for big pot" is rather more a solved issue
I think you might be on to something with the water thing though, that could be a problem. 800 hotdogs seems a lot easier to transport than 400L of soup.
aren't they usually like 1 man operations or self employed?
I don't?
I'm thinking more like urban center, pedestrianized spaces here honestly, not so much Ex-Urb with a foodtruck if that helps contextualize it.
Would you say that streetfood is more of a treat or more of a part of life?
I know it's a treat for me, but that's genuinely because there's so few "healthy" options going on with it that it sort of fulfills it's own prophecy, I can't eat a hotdog or a hamburger anytime I'm in town, I sure could eat a soup though. Healthiest option here, barring salads from fast food chains or such, is usually a falafel wrap and while that at least comes with veggies and no meat, it's still deep fried and all.
You plug this into your bicycle dynamo and out comes electricity to charge your shit with if you're going at least 12kph ~7,5mph.
Very cool for people who do multi day bike tours and having tested one personally: Yeah, rules!
You might have to do some finnicking with a powerbank that doesn't require you to replug it after it stops charging - I mean you're gonna go below 12kph eventually - but hey, you get some volts out of it to keep your phone or whatever other tech going if you're on a multi day ride with sparse outlets
Here's some data if you're into that sort of thing
I am the downtrodden working poor elitist rich urbanite
My condolences for being deprived of good soup all your life