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Finished the first 500 bikes!!!!
Saturday, 05 May 2007
Rwandan Farmer on a Coffee Bike The Coffee BikeJay and his crew have been busy building the first shipment of Coffee Bikes alongside 23 Rwandan mechanics. They are now building the second batch of 500 bikes. Here is a quote from Jay's blog:

"The bikes are an absolute rave. I hear every time I go to the cooperatives about how people think that they are so great, that people that bought coffee bikes and owned the ordinary/Chinese bicycles sold their ordinary/Chinese because they saw no need to keep it around. People are amazed by the simple fact of riding up hills, or carrying people and cargo on the back of the bicycles or carrying so much coffee down the hill. On average there is 120-150 kilos of coffee being transported to the washing station at Karaba on the back of coffee bicycles."

Read more on Jay's Blog »

 
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