Here's and interesting link I found on FB. http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678778/a-maintenance-free-bike-to-give-africans-some-mobility. In a growing economy like India, we look towards bigger things, more money, bigger cars, trendier attires and the likes. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that work like this also goes around in the world and that some people who are very well placed are thinking about the less fortunate ones. To think that a well designed bicycle could be a boon for so many people somewhere in the world really gives me a reality check about being a human. Today I respect my bicycle a wee bit more as a simple, useful machine that instills humility in me. Wouldn't it be such an oxymoron to say that "I'm proud of my humility", so I won't...wow! that's another one-liner generated...hmmm! I'm loving it.
By the way winters are here and I'm back to commuting on my bicycle. It's been four days in the roughly 20km to&fro commute. I'm loving it. My Enfield is resting it's ass.
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