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A Rocket to Ride

A Rocket to Ride

The Rocket Car is one of the formative designs that eventually lead to Lightfoot Cycles. Our focus at Lightfoot today is the effective utilization of human power, knowing that making it easier and safer for humans to use their own heart, lungs and muscle to move themselves can be a critical part of the solution to the problem of the sedentary modern lifestyle, and the damage it does to our…

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The Rocket Returns

In 1973, Earl Miner built a vehicle to transport his fertile imagination to the furthest reaches of the world and beyond. The amazing Rocket Car had traveled almost 90,000 miles with him aboard when it disappeared off the radar. For three decades its whereabouts were unknown. People asked and wondered and whispered, but no one knew. Lightfoot Cycles was born, and grew with each passing year, and…

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Thanking Earl Miner for PET

Thanking Earl Miner for PET

(By the Reverend Dr. Melvin West) I ask a special favor of all who read this. Earl Miner, who designed the PET, has now moved to a nursing home because he has Alzheimer’s. PET would not exist had Earl not designed it. Earl is a product designer with a huge heart and a stress on simplicity. He and I have worked together for the last 40 years building and shipping machines useful in the mission…

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Two Bold Ladies

Leona Miner of Missouri and Seun Oke of Nigeria appeared together at the PET International Conference, in Columbia, Missouri, on October 8, 2014. Leona is one of the sustaining forces behind the development of the PET handcycle, and has witnessed its development from a napkin sketch to an international organization providing handcycles for persons in need throughout the developing world. For…

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