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The Mission

Establish, market, and maintain innovative city-optimized passenger and freight systems of movement within New York City. Partner with likeminded enterprises to establish, market, and maintain supply "cycles" for transparent, healthful NYC foodshed produce and food waste via fuel-optimized systems of movement. Eliminate within NYC any need for toxic vans, trucks, and related infrastructure by relinking and re-energizing NYC's native assets.

The Company

Established in 2005 with 15 pedicabs for hire out of a car park at 59th St and the West Side Highway, Revolution Rickshaws today is a limited liability company in New York State that provides enterprises, residents, and visitors in NYC with citycab passenger shuttles & tours, cityfreight delivery & distribution solutions, outdoor mobile media services, and work-trike rental & preventative maintenance programs.

NYC Transport Infrastructure: Military versus Agrarian

The benefits of harvesting "local" power and infrastructure to execute movement are myriad: increased local sufficiency, physical fitness, air quality, street safety, et cetera. Sadly, decisions made by officials in faraway lands including Washington, D.C., and Albany, N.Y., invest taxpayer money in military transport infrastructure. The federal Government Accountability Office, for instance, tells us that truck infrastructure is six times more expensive than rail and nine times more expensive than ship infrastucture - and that only due to federal and state intervention is this cost not borne by end users. Who covers the difference? Taxpayers.

RR is building and maintaining transport infrastructure for a resilient New York City, accounting for each element involved in movement of people and goods - no "disposable" or "externalized" elements in our systems. Locally harvested transport inputs are maximized every step—or revolution—of the way.

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Our programs today roll on the most potent man-powered platform available—Cycles Maximus work trikes manufactured by our resilient friends in Bath, England— and operate with RR team members who are local safety and logistics experts. Team RR maintains top trikes to ensure people and produce move about Manhattan safely, soundly, securely—and softly. RR ultimately yields consistently satisfied customers—who tend to become our best marketers.

Contact us today to partner in the rebuilding of regional inputs infrastructure and transport supply cycles right here in New York City.

Another successful transition from motor weapon to work trike - at Middletown Power Co.

Stats

• Established in 2005

• Headquarters: 432 West 31st St, NY, NY

• 22 Cycles Maximus work trike chassis

• 20 pedicabs

• 10 freight trikes

• 2 billboard trikes

• Garaging, lockers, repair, preventative maintenance services on site

• Erstwhile Cycles Maximus U.S. agent & parts distributor

• New York City Pedicab Owners' Assocaition charter member

Team RR

Gregg Zuman, Founder, Managing Director

with Helen Zuman, Special Projects Director

Julian Isaza, Operations Director

Bobby Friese, Art Director

Christine Quinones, Finance & Admin Director

picture to come!

The Media

The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time Out New York, Metro New York, The New York Post, The Daily News—all of the city's major news publications have noted Revolution Rickshaws' effect on our local economy.

The New Yorker back in 2006 actually captured our mission before we even knew it, writing that Revolution Rickshaws is out to, "in effect, create an entire pedal-based economy." (see below)

Dylan Ratigan had Revolution Rickshaws on his payroll for a spell (see NY Post article below) until his higher ups got wind of his sensible practices and pulled our account!

An intrepid Daily News reporter tried her hand at pedicabbing with the help of RR...

Check out some of the coverage we've garnered over the years:

Solidarity with our local cycling brethren

Our partnership with Artisanal Cheese

One of our riders enables TONY to nab cycling scofflaws?

A Revolution Rickshaws courier moving Greenopia to local bookstores.

Revolution Cargo Couriers' soldier Christopher Long represents.

 

We executed the Dylan Ratigan Shuttle for a spell!

Any press is good press

Caught on camera moving my desk to our olde shoppe at 454 Ninth Ave

About the Founder

Gregg Zukowski established Revolution Rickshaws LLC in 2005 to empower locals like him to establish and engage profitable pedicab practices—like the one that has enabled him to regain fine physical fitiness, solid financial footing, innumerable deleriously satisfied customers, and peace of mind available to folks providing services that only enhance one's community, ecology, AND economy. Soon, he was pedaling people-powered shuttle and promotional services to New York City enterprises keen to establish resilient, renewing, and rewarding practices. Inspired by our brothers and sisters across much of Asia, he also expanded RR's suite of services to include people-powered cargo-moving solutions, and the rest is becoming history.

He first established his pedicab practice with Pedicabs of New York in 2003; soon afterward, Gregg began researching work-trike manufacturers worldwide before settling on equipment manufactured by Cycles Maximus, Ltd., based in Bath, England. He became the first person to import their equipment; subsequently, he was invited to perform duties as U.S. agent for the U.K.-based manufacturer.

Prior to running RR, Gregg served as state committee member of the Green Party of New York State as well as secretary of the Kings County Green Party Organization. He also operated Bacchus Editorial, providing editorial services to many NY-based companies including Deal Flow Media, Horsesmouth, JPMorganChase, Primedia, AdWeek, Energy Intelligence Group, Morgan Stanley, Romantic Times Magazine, Zarnegin Rugs, and other enterprises. Too, he worked periodically as a bike messenger in NYC during the 1990s.

He graduated from Occidental College in 1996 with a B.A. in politics, producing during that time an extensive study of inter-urban transit systems in NYC and Los Angeles. He found that not only "Big Oil" and G.M. were responsible for the demise of the City of Angels' system - the largest in the world in the 1920s; in fact, millions of midwesterners (and others) who bought into a notion of "the American Dream" pitched by real estate agents practically demanded it. They demanded a petroleum-fueled dream - and now we're left with a steadily deadening reality of industrialism-at-all-costs. Gregg believes RR is part of the antidote.