{"id":18957,"date":"2022-05-05T15:04:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T15:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/bicycle-prices-soar-in-quelimane"},"modified":"2022-05-05T15:18:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T15:18:36","slug":"bicycle-prices-soar-in-quelimane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/bicycle-prices-soar-in-quelimane","title":{"rendered":"Bicycle prices soar in Quelimane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Anyone from Quelimane knows how to ride a bike. A visitor who has not ridden a bicycle-taxi, has not really arrived in Quelimane \u2013 that\u2019s what they say in the provincial capital of Zambezia.<\/p>\n

Four out of five families in urban neighbourhoods have at least one bicycle, which travels an average of 25 kilometres a day. Many are used as taxis to earn some money.<\/p>\n

Recently, however, it has not been easy to acquire a new or even second-hand bike. The demand for bicycles has increased since the recent hike in conventional transport tariffs, and bicycle sellers have raised their prices.<\/p>\n

For example, a second-hand one-person bicycle which previously cost about 5,000 meticais now costs almost 10,000 meticais (about \u20ac142), or even more depending on the quality.<\/p>\n

New bikes are the most popular. Even though taxi operators consider them less resilient, they come with luggage compartments \u2013 handy for taxi and cargo transport applications. These currently cost about \u20ac85.<\/p>\n

Prices going up<\/b><\/p>\n

The higher prices are criticised by many citizens who depend on bicycles, including for work.<\/p>\n

\u201cSellers have raised [bicycle] prices, so we must raise prices for the provision of bicycle taxi service to earn anything,\u201d Hibraim Alf\u00e2ndega explains.<\/p>\n

Francisco Espelho, 58, says he has been supporting his family by means of his bicycle for several years now. \u201cLife is difficult, day after day,\u201d he tells DW. \u201cBikes are now going up in price.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was in 2007 that I started first carrying flour from the mill to the market. The same year, I got my bicycle taxi driver\u2019s licence and since then have \u2018made taxi\u2019 with my bicycle,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n

Bicycle sellers in Quelimane declined to comment on the issue at this time.<\/p>\n

More than 10,000 bicycles in circulation<\/b><\/p>\n

Because of the increasing number of bicycles, authorities in Quelimane decided to institutionalise cycling and, in 2013, created ATAMOZ, the Zambezia Taxi Drivers Association.<\/p>\n

The association\u2019s president, Ant\u00f3nio Bernardino, says that there are more and more cyclists, and new members registering all the time, despite the price of bicycles.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe already have 5,500 associated taxi drivers \u2013 the number tends to grow because of unemployment. Young people come to Quelimane from all over Zambezia province\u201d to work as [bicycle] taxi drivers, he says.<\/p>\n

The best-selling bicycles in Quelimane are imported from India, China and Italy.<\/p>\n

It is estimated that more than 10,000 bicycles circulate on the roads of the provincial capital every day \u2013 more than half of them registered with the taxi drivers association.<\/p>\n

Source: Deutsche Welle<\/b><\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. Anyone from Quelimane knows how to ride a bike. A visitor who has not ridden a bicycle-taxi, has not really arrived in Quelimane \u2013 that\u2019s what they say in the provincial capital of Zambezia. Four out of five families in urban neighbourhoods have at least one bicycle, which travels an average of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-18957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"\nBicycle prices soar in Quelimane - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Anyone from Quelimane knows how to ride a bike. 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