{"id":1993,"date":"2011-09-06T21:17:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T19:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2014-07-31T22:41:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:41:55","slug":"bicycle-power-in-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/bicycle-power-in-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycle power in Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended reading: France 24 on cycling as a major form of transport.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The bicycle is very popular in Malawi, because people can&#8217;t afford a motorbike and because Malawi has a high density of population,&#8221; said Dutchman Peter Meijer who set up a bike business, Sakaramenta, in 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sakaramenta.com\/\" title=\"Malawi bicycles\">Peter Meijer&#8217;s company website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Most of the bikes in Malawi are imported from India:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Countrywide dealer Farmers World, meanwhile, sells 8,000 to 10,000 bikes a year imported from India for between 12,000 and 15,000 kwacha. A basic single gear, standard 22-inch (55-centimetre) wheel model is the most popular.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/groups\/show\/?q=bicycle+taxi&#038;m=pool&#038;w=53958983%40N00\" title=\"Malawi Flickr group\">Photos of bicycle taxis in the Malawi Flickr group<\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended reading: France 24 on cycling as a major form of transport. &#8220;The bicycle is very popular in Malawi, because people can&#8217;t afford a motorbike and because Malawi has a high density of population,&#8221; said Dutchman Peter Meijer who set up a bike business, Sakaramenta, in 2009. Here is a link to Peter Meijer&#8217;s company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-w9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}