The electrician sparking change by fixing Londoners’ homes off an e-bike
Posted: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
A Londoner who left his job in construction behind to start a greener electrician business now has a whole fleet of e-bikes travelling across the capital, Metro.co.uk has reported. Aaron Fleming-Saheed, 42, set up his company Cycling Sparks in 2017, shortly after being diagnosed with a heart issue. The electrician from Greenwich, south east London, first came up with the idea while he was working in the American Embassy, in Vauxhall and was having transport woes. He told Metro.co.uk: “I was late every day because of the trains, there was always a delay of some sort. “In 2016, I did buy a bike and I did a dry run on a Sunday to Vauxhall and I was like, ‘This is amazing. This is easy, like, why is nobody else doing this?’ “I just carried on doing it like that, really. Then I moved to a different site and when I wanted to leave construction, I’d already thought of the name and my mates missus said: ‘That’s a really good idea, you should do it’.” “Luckily after being used to already cycling his 15kg of tools to work, it wasn’t too hard to adapt when he switched to his new business, which covers domestic and commercial work.”
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