Dreams For The Future

A GARAGE

I love the stories of businesses starting in a garage.  MOVE IT! by bike has yet to be in a garage.  I started with storing my moving supplies in my tiny one room apartment, with my bicycles in the common hallway and the trailers leaning on and locked to a fence outside.

In September of 2016 MOVE IT! by bike rented warehouse space in Midcity.  This location was more central than our old location so we could get to jobs quicker and easier.  Due to an injury from a bicycle accident I was not able to work for a month and got behind on the rent at the ware house. Not able to catch up and pay the late fees I lost all of our moving equitment. Since then MOVE IT! by bike has been rebuilding from scratch.

Right now all our moving supplies and trailer are stored in a 10’ x 12’ storage space.   This storage space has no electricity nor climate control and yet costs over $400/month. By far our largest monthly expence.

Some day I hope MOVE IT! by bike will be in a garage.

A FLEET

(Please note that things have changed after losing all of our equipment. We are working to get back to where we were and hope to build from there)

So far MOVE IT! by bike has added one trailer and a bicycle to pull it, to our "fleet" each year.  The trailers we use cost just over $1,000.00.  MOVE IT! by bike uses Marin, Muirwoods 29er bicycles.  We have three that we have bought used.  Our trailers come from Bikes At Work and are customized for us to be wider than their normal trailer.  We are considering having our trailers custom built locally.

More trailers equals more can be moved.  My vision is to arrive at a house or business or office with enough carrying capacity to move everything in one trip.  

MOVE IT! by bike has moved entire apartments and houses.  The way we do it now is to have two people each at the loading and unloading locations and three people (or more when we get more trailers) pulling the trailers with a load and coming back empty to do it again.  It usually takes a morning or an afternoon to complete the move.  With more trailers the time it takes for a move of this size will be far less. 

DISTRIBUTING

There is a lot of congestion on the streets of our city in the morning.  A delivery truck blocking a lane of traffic just makes things worse.  MOVE IT! by bike's vision is to meet a truck with a fleet of our trailers in a less congested part of our city and transfer an order or two or three or whatever will fit on the trailer and deliver it to where it needs to go.  While these orders are being delivered, the truck can return back to the warehouse to do it all over again or deliver to a less congested area.  MOVE IT! by bike's trailers can pull right up on the sidewalk and keep the traffic lane open.