Unaddressed Questions

Questions to be Addressed

    • How do the existing types/quantity/quality of bikes affect their use?
    • Where do these bikes/bike parts come from?
      • Where are parts (brake pads, cables, tires, wheels, tubes, pumps) coming from?
      • Where are repair tools coming from?
    • How are the repaired?
      • Who repairs them?
      • Where are skills learned?
    • How does the market for them function?
      • Who buys them vs who sells them?
      • Are there methods for sharing bikes?
      • Are there methods for renting bikes?
      • Are there bike taxis?
      • How does bike appearance/design affect bike use?
      • How is theft addressed?
    • What type of road surface/path are bikes ridden on?
  • Are there enough bikes/too many bikes?
  • Do people even want bikes?
    • Will these bamboo bikes create a self sustaining market that is an improvement over importing whole assembled bikes?
    • Is the employment the bikes’ production would provide in and of itself a benefit?
    • How might the skills learned lead to further empowerment to better the peoples’ situations in Ghana?