NIX THE CAR,
ROLL IN STYLE
Nolan Blunck
JEFF SCOTT’S CB BIKE TAXI: LET A LONG-TIME LOCAL PEDAL YOU TO DINNER. By Tyler Hansen
In this bike-loving town, Jeff Scott assists a passenger from his new pedicab. 10
Bikes are baked into the DNA of Crested Butte. Even in blizzards I’ve seen kids cycling to school and parents towing their children to daycare via townie. It’s glorious. But on Elk Avenue in July, cars far outnumber bikes. You can watch “Schindler’s List” in the time it takes to make a left turn. Finding a parking spot is as pleasant as a Tabasco colonic. That’s where Jeff Scott saw an opportunity. “I’ve seen so many people hop in their car to make a five-block drive to get to dinner or whatever. I felt like I had to come up with an alternative to help folks get around that didn’t add to our congestion,” says Scott, a serial entrepreneur with flyaway hair and boundless frenetic energy. “My brain just can’t stop processing fixes and alternatives to the things we hold, do and come in contact with.” Scott set his creativity to getting locals and visitors to leave their cars at home and make their way around town
in style. His solution? A pedicab made specifically for the mean streets of Crested Butte. CB Bike Taxi was born. Perhaps not a groundbreaking concept – pedicabs have been around through the ages, even briefly in Crested Butte – but one that carries plenty of the Crested Butte special sauce that makes this place so unique. “These machines are made in Colorado by the legend of pedicabs, Steve Meyers. They are burly, fat and functional. There’s plenty of storage, plenty of style, and more than enough funkiness to make them right at home,” says Scott. He’s not lying. These pedicabs look like a cross between a traditional rickshaw and a pimp’s car from a Blaxploitation film. With glittery purple paint, a powerful sound system, and lighting akin to an electronic dance music concert, these pedicabs are hard to miss cruising down the street. There’s no better way to make an entrance in our mountain hamlet (short of riding in
