We just launched Cycling-Secrets.com last Friday and, even though Google doesn’t like us, hundreds of people have downloaded the software we developed to train with and then decided to give away. Gratifying as this is, the cherry so far came on Tuesday morning when I got an email from Kenya. Nothing to do with my lost African fortune this time but Samuel thanking us, on behalf of his cycling club, for the software.
‘Am very thankful for your gift and also on behalf of the club,I received your free cycling secrets Software.This will usually help in well coaching our team, so that it can improve more in cycling.
The team is much happy for your assistance in providing the required tactics on cycling.I know very well that you can make us shine in Kenya and in Africa at Large.’
It’s stuff like this that will motivate this project. We’ll be doing all we can to support these guys as much as possible.
A beautiful thing – and more and more all road seem to lead to Africa. We are currently in the early stages of setting up a ‘Bicycles for Humanity’ chapter in Melbourne, Australia. We’ll be taking second hand and disused bikes , filling a shiping container with them and sending it to southern Africa. There the container will be placed in a community and become a pre-fabricated bike workshop providing skills training, work and business opportunities while the bikes will be distributed to AIDS care workers who typically have to cover huge distances in the course of their work. The initial connection with Namibia and B4H is through an old friend of mine Micheal Linke who currently runs BEN(Bicycle Empowerment Network) Namibia.
Just going there on Google Earth took my breath away. An endless sea of sand stretching to the notorious Skeleton Coast littered with wrecks from distant centuries. One of the most sparsely populated nations on Earth whose arable land constitutes one percent of its area. Suddenly my most recent little bubble of western malaise was burst and a whole world of possibility opened up.
‘Find something bigger than yourself and there will be no question of ‘how’ now the ‘why’ has been answered’
As I said this blog is ostensibly about cycling – these long roads will take us, take us far from these small things we now define ourselves with. Take us completely and roll forever toward an ever expanding horizon.
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