LOCAL PEDICAB BUSINESS MOVES MESSAGES AROUND DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO

– Moving your message in front of a large downtown San Diego audience has never been easier thanks to VIP Pedicab’s new mobile outdoor advertising. The pedicab company has recently begun offering local businesses and companies visiting for a convention the opportunity to splash their message all over downtown San Diego on the back of VIP Pedicab’s modern pedicab trailers.

“During the past ComicCon convention, a Hollywood movie studio used the backside of a hundred pedicabs in addition to using our three-sided mobile billboard to advertise their upcoming Hamlet movie,” explained Ali Horuz, President of VIP Pedicab. “The studio was looking for a new way to promote their movie to the thousands of people attending ComicCon, and our pedicab billboards provided great exposure for their message as the bikes zipped around downtown all week long.”

VIP Pedicab has been reaching out to businesses that plan to visit San Diego for an upcoming convention and may want to advertise their product or service on their pedicabs to the meeting attendees. Besides the billboard advertising, VIP Pedicab has also created arrangements with companies to use pedicabs to transport their clients and guests back and forth to special events held downtown.

“Using VIP Pedicab was a great way to advertise our Internet business during a large industry event in San Diego and it really helped our company stand out from the crowd! Everyone attending the convention (along with the rest of downtown San Diego) noticed the colorful signs hanging on the bikes and the riders decked out in t-shirts advertising our company. Using pedicabs as moving advertisements turned out to be an affordable, yet fresh way to create awareness for our business. We would definitely use VIP Pedicab again!” said David Ptak, President of SolidProfessor.

For more information about advertising your business on a pedicab or securing pedicab transportation for your upcoming event, please contact VIP Pedicab at http://www.vippedicab.com or call (619) 228-3632.

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About VIP Pedicab

VIP Pedicab is an ecologically friendly company that offers outdoor advertising and transportation services. VIP Pedicab has been providing locals and tourists in San Diego rides, sightseeing tours as well as offering companies a unique and effective advertising option in San Diego since 2005. We specialize in promoting and advertising products or services from companies in town exhibiting at the San Diego Convention Center by placing their ad directly on the front and back of our pedicabs. We offer maximum exposure as our pedicabs are driven all over downtown San Diego exposing the advertisement of the sponsor's company to thousands of people 8-12 hours a day.

Souped Up West End Pedicabs Crackdown

December 9th, 2008 by Jonathan Dudley

The West End’s pedicabs offer an environmentally friendly and decidedly twee alternative to London’s famous black cabs. Being transported around the capital by leg power that’s not your own somehow feels rather decadent, even in the occasionally smoggy, bustling atmosphere of Theatreland.

I must admit, I do enjoy hailing a pedicab at any given opportunity and going on a little jaunt just so I can revel in the novelty of the whole affair. Who needs engines when someone will ferry you across town for £15? The only way I would rather travel in London is in a sedan chair accompanied by the lovely Cheryl Cole, carried by Gareth Gates, Rowan Atkinson,Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jodie Prenger, that would be a trip to the West End.

Despite my continued support, not all is well in the world of leg powered transport. Recently it came to light that up to 80% of London’s pedicabs have been converted to run partially on car battery power. These supercharged transports are hardly going to break the land speed record but they can allegedly reach speeds of up to 20mph.

The London press has labelled the souped up pedicabs “deathtraps” which strikes me as slightly dramatic, but I suppose I’ve never been run over by a speeding rickshaw so what do I know. Recently, there was a near miss in which a pedicab mounted the pavement in Soho, narrowly missed some passers-by and smashed into a restaurant window. So perhaps not deathtraps but certainly not the safest way to get around the city, safest would be the much maligned favourite of days gone by, walking.

The drivers of the battery-assisted rickshaws are allegedly often uninsured and many are said to flout traffic laws, mounting kerbs, jumping traffic lights and overloading their cabs. I doubt all this tomfoolery on the roads of London has done the relationship between the drivers of the pedicabs and the local constabulary any good, so it’s little wonder that we are seeing a crackdown.

To tackle the problem, a series of checkpoints will be set up in the heart of our beloved West End to seize electrically assisted pedicabs and those ignoring traffic legislation. With up to 80% of London’s pedicabs apparently sporting these illegal modifications it looks like a lot of people are going to be forced to walk.

Finally, an excuse to buy a segway.