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?