Rickshaw Rick’s

Rickshaw Rick is one of life’s pleasures – like a good Chicago hot dog or walk through the Submarine at the Museum of Science and Industry – do not miss a ride with Rick. Oak Park gets really real with Rick at the bar.

Just had an incredible morning with Rick and Keon! He made exploring the wonderful world of Frank Lloyd Wright most memorable… Fun, informative and relaxed! highly recommend him.

We hired Rick and his Richshaw for our wedding in May 2014 at Promontory Point in Hyde Park. Rick was FANTASTIC: he was easy to plan with, and accommodated all of our requests. Our guests (and we) were so grateful to have him there to shuttle folks to and from their cars and the hotel — and he was SO professional and fun. THANK YOU, Rick, for helping to make our day a bit more special. We are so grateful and would highly recommend Rick’s business to anyone.

My wife and I were visiting her sister in oak park and had the day to ourselves so we thought we’d try rickshaw rick out. We got onto the rickshaw and it was very sticky and he not so subtly hinted at my wife’s weight when he mentioned the weight limit for the rickshaw. My wife is constantly battling with type 1 diabetes and high blood pressure so it was very hurtful when she heard this. Off to a bad start, this wasn’t seeming to be the best ride. A bumpy tour of oak park with a very rude and disrespectful man that seems to have very little regard for oncoming traffic made this experience less than enjoyable. It was incredibly expensive in exchange for a very poorly put together experience. I will not recommend rickshaw rick to anybody. It was awful and my wife should not have had to go through what that mean man said. One star is the lowest you can choose, but evidently it isn’t low enough.

We found Rick outside of the Frank Lloyd Wright house. We’d thought we might return to the train station using a regular cab, but the driver refused to bother with such a small fare. When we found Rick there, we thought «Why not?» He took us to the Harlem station and threw in lots of information about the houses we were passing and which ones were designed by Wright. This turned out to be much more than a ride to the station. Rick was affable, knowledgeable and affordable. The ride didn’t cost much more than a regular taxi ride would have cost, and it was totally memorable.

We used Rick’s rickshaws for transportation between our wedding venue and hotel. Rick was very flexible in meeting my transportation needs even when they changed a couple weeks before the wedding. My guests liked having something special to transport them to the wedding. My photographer got some great rickshaw pictures before the wedding.

When planning our wedding, we had a great idea for transportation for us and guests between our ceremony & reception sites — Rickshaws! I tried for days to contact other services before I found Rickshaw Rick. We were really surprised that it was as difficult as it was to find such a service in Chicago. We were very glad to find Rick. He worked with us to print up custom signs to put on the rickshaw. He was very good at keeping us informed and returning phone calls/​emails. He and his partner came down to Chicago from Oak Park, showed up on time and were really into having a good time with us. They made sure that we got our moneys worth and took us on some extensive rides after our ceremony. The cost was well worth it. The only thing we might change looking back is that our driver wore a neon yellow t-​shirt while driving us around and he is in all those pictures.
Rick is great. We would recommend him to a friend.