When Tom first came to Rwanda in 2005 this is the region that he fell in love with so it is no surprise that this years Wooden Bike Classic will be held in Ruhengeri and Team Rwanda is setting up a base here.

The interim house in Kigali served as a great stepping stone for this move, the decision was made to downsize the Kigali presence and to establish a base where there is a large cycling talent potential, center for our MTB tourism, and a place where Team Rwanda can come and train in a rural setting.

The house is a 4 bedroom colonial house with an out building perfectly set up for bikes, (it was used as a vet clinic for gorillas). The finishing touches of the house is almost complete and we have been setting up tours through there already, see the latest update.

There are two enormous avocado trees on the property and we are already growing organic, lettuce, broccoli and spinach in the garden!

Soon the house will be teeming riders, staff and guests of Project Rwanda. I look forward to the new rural setting.