[bbcbasic]

I'll assume this is an AMA then :-)

So how easy is it to ride one of those bikes? Do you have to be particularly strong, and what if you have say 50km to ride in a day to visit all the consuming destinations?

I think this could be popular in Australia. We hate Starbucks - it flopped in Australia and there are only a handful of them open in tourist hotspots. Aussies tend to be snobby about coffee and know the name and children's names of their barista. You may do well in AU if the coffee is top-notch. Although the market size is quite small here compared to the US of course.

[Schwolop]

Australians are interested in but not big consumers of pour-overs. Cold-drip and other "exotic" coffee styles are increasingly seen, but by far and away the dominant style is Italian espresso.

And, presumably for power, space, and desire-to-be-low-carbon-footprint requirements, that's precisely the style Wheely's cannot provide. I'm doubtful whether this would be a viable business in Australia.

[MariaDeLaCroix]

Hey, no, no muscles needed - the bikes has an electrical engine so whenever it's hilly you will get help from it.

The coffee is top notch, and will hopefully suit the australians taste as well.

[2muchcoffeeman]

It would be very dependent on location in Australia. I live in Sydney and I am spoiled for choice. There is literally no road from my place without at least 1 good coffee place. There are 3 roasters within a 1000m radius to me. I can get a great coffee just about everywhere.

We can certainly support more coffee businesses, but you're not going to become huge doing it.

[bbcbasic]

As a British expat, the whole coffee scene is quite an amazing thing about Sydney. I can get a reasonably good barista coffee almost anywhere - the hardware store, the swimming pool, the furniture shop, most pubs, at childrens activities etc.

There are 1 or 2 coffee shops on every street near where I work in an otherwise very industrial area. They put a fair amount of effort into making themselves unique in style and differentiating themselves.

[prawn]

I don't drink coffee, but I could see this working in the Adelaide CBD where the streets/footpaths are flat and in decent condition. It'd be easy to move around. Shame about the council's recent attitude to food trucks.