I read an article in the Chicago Tribune (paper version) Thursday about the cargo bike movement. I started hearing more about these when I stopped by an old friend's framebuilding shop in Seattle last year. A former messenger and bike mechanic in Chicago, he had been building cargo bikes in Seattle for quite a while. I've been wanting to convert one of my old mt bikes into some type of cargo bike for commuting and grocerying for a couple of years, but haven't gotten around to it.
At the end of the article was something I found amusing (see below). There has got to be a way for hungry racers to take the same idea and make it work for them!!
"Alan Wayne Scott, 57, a bike messenger in Toronto, is also an important figure in the cargo bike movement. After realizing that as a bike messenger he was eating three times as much as he was used to, he wanted to deduct food costs from his taxes the way an automobile driver deducts the cost of gas. Scott fought for many years in the Canadian courts until, in the late 1990's, the Canadian government agreed to allow the deductions."
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I looked into that a while back -- in the U.S., you can only deduct stuff like that (and parts, massages, gas, etc.) if you "reasonably hope to make a profit" from your bike racing. You have 3 years to prove it. Good luck with that!
Yeah, that sounds right... I remember a friend wanting to deduct the cost of camera equipment and the same rule applied.... you have to make money from it.
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