Our running total about ten days after returning home is now over $8000 for Africyle.  We’re feeling pretty good about this amount.  Some of us swear we will never ride so far again.  Some of us are talking about a longer trip for next year including more Rotarians and shooting for a higher amount to [...]

Here is a quick example of our ride in the news around the lake.ONE   TWO   THREE   FOUR   FIVE   SIX   SEVEN   EIGHT      NINE … more to be found on the google machine.Enjoy.

After 9 days, and a little over 1000km’s, we rode our bicycles into Peterborough late yesterday afternoon, around 5:30 PM. Our final day consisted once again of lots of rain, shelter from the thunder storms, blueberry pie, coffee, and two additional riders, a Rotarian, and Ted Webb, founder of Africycle.

To complete our trip around [...]

There’s a new video. The original file is 165MB, so we had to degrade the video quality to upload it. It still gives a pretty good idea of a typical ride. It’s of the first part of our Day 4 ride, from Selkirk Shores to Sodus Point. I eventually had to put the camera away [...]

Thursday evening, July 24th. We, the Ride for Africycle crew are all tired but well fed. This has been an incredible trip so far defined by so many awesome things.
Day one: Rotarians. We met up with local Rotarians, the mayors of Peterborough and Port Hope, the support crew and [...]

Friends… updates have been few and far between.  Rest assured, as we get closer to our departure date there will be much more news to share with you.  Up first, we a couple of new additions to the crew;  Jozina Vander Klok is now on board as well as Michael Vyn.   Welcome!
Also, we are currently [...]

The first couple of seconds are a little shaky… but it gets better. Thanks to Shannon for getting us this clip!

News Spot from Ride For Africycle on Vimeo.

Our local News station (CHEX) did a spot with the Ride For Africycle crew. Look for it to air at both 6pm and 11pm (on CHEX) on Wednesday May 7th.

July 18th to July 26th of 2008; we will bicycle around Lake Ontario raising money for Africycle. Africycle is a charitable organization bringing people together to improve access to bicycles in Africa. See the ‘About’ tab to learn more about what Africycle does. Through our bicycle trip around Lake Ontario this summer, we hope to [...]