About Us
Daphne Lewis is the owner of Chalo Sulky. She was the owner of DogScooter from 2000 until Dec 31, 2008. On January 1, 2009 she began her new business Chalo Sulky. All of 2009 has been spent developing the sulkies, carts, trailers and harnesses sold on www.chalosulky.com

Her new designer/fabricator is Mike Miller of Metal Magician. Her ongoing fabricator is Ken Selvidge of KC Fabrications.

Daphne lives in Federal Way Washington. Her other strong interest is farming bamboo. She is an avid supporter of the Research Bamboo Groves at WSU Puyallup.



Daphne is assisted in marketing her sulkies by a father and daughter team: Brett and Rosy. You can see Brett and Rosy at work on Daphne's DVD "Dogs Love to Pull". Brett and Rosy are chinooks. Chinooks are a breed of sled dogs that originated in the 1920's in New Hampshire.



History
Why name your business Chalo Sulky?

The first sulky that I owned was made in Australia. It was a fine sulky, although too wide to be practical in the city. I decided to be its US sales person. I was unable to sell them because they were marketed via a talk group.

I wanted to sell dog sulkies, though, so after a year with no sales, I decided to develop my own sulky. I discovered Chalo Colina. Chalo is a bicycle enthusiast who loved to design and build wheeled things different from the average bicycle. At the time he worked with me, Chalo was a machinist for a company in Seattle that designs and develops space ships. Chalo willingly worked with me on many Tuesday evenings after work at his shop in Seattle. He researched parts we could order via his incredible ability with a computer. He bought all the parts we needed with his own money including shocks, wheels, aluminum bars and brake fittings. He machined the custom fork crowns on the computer operated machines in his shop.