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Charity Auction: Own a RARE piece of cycling history AND support Team Rwanda!

March 05, 2012

40th Anniversary Fillet Brazed Road Frame

Limited Edition Tom Ritchey 40th Anniversary Fillet Brazed Road frame!

Tom Ritchey, legendary framebuilder, racer and mountain bike pioneer, started building his first frames in 1972, making 2012 his 40th year of custom framebuilding. To celebrate this landmark Tom Ritchey is offering a small batch of his finely crafted, fillet brazed steel frames to the public for the first time in many years.

Only 40 of these Limited Edition 40th Anniversary frame/forks will be made available. This is the first in the series, to be numbered #1/40 and hand signed by Tom Ritchey. It is new, never built, and first shown in public at the 2012 NAHBS in Sacramento.

This particular frame is a 60cm Road Classic featuring timeless all-day road geometry. Tubing is hand-selected by Tom for optimal weight, stiffness, ride quality and durability, and hand fillet brazed by Tom himself.

Buy, Hold, and Squeal: Of Pigs and Purpose

December 13, 2011
Written by: 
T.P. Allen, Former attorney, director of Bridge2Rwanda | The Huffington Post

Pig BikeBy the time I arrived, the purported road had dwindled to something less than a goat trail. To say I was off the beaten track in rural Rwanda, some 90 kilometers outside of Kigali, would merely state the obvious. I was going where no sane person would go on four wheels instead of two feet.

Yet it was here, at the end of the road, where I encountered an extraordinary creature: a real live piggy bank that in all its porcine glory captured the essence of grassroots entrepreneurship and development at the base of the socioeconomic pyramid. Here was an animal that represented financial security for a family, which could have made roast suckling pig out of him long before the initial investment paid off. In order to maximize the return, however, this family would have to be patient; in other words, buy and hold.

Riding Giant

October 24, 2011
Written by: 
Jacob SB

Riding Giant from Jacob SB on Vimeo.

Letter From Rwanda : Climbers

July 21, 2011
Written by: 
Philip Gourevitch | Tne New Yorker
Team Riders
“This is the land of second chances,” the coach of Team Rwanda says. The riders—Hutus and Tutsis—find that cycling gives suffering a purpose. Above, team members compete in the Tour of Rwanda, in November, 2010.

A team of young cyclists tries to outrun the past.

Hitting the ground running...new PR volunteer Matt DeYoung

December 16, 2010
Written by: 
Matt De Young

Well today marks six weeks that I have spent here in Rwanda as a volunteer for the Project. It certainly does not seem like it has been that long with the whirlwind of activity we have been experiencing here. I arrived just a week before the African Continental Championships commenced in Kigali, the nation’s capital. Here in Musanze at Project/Team Rwanda’s headquarters, race preparations were in full swing. Jock, Scott, and Clark were busy helping the team out with their last few days of training before the races, Max was busy seeing that all of the bikes were in tip-top shape, Jen was making sure that everyone was well fed and taken care of. I was definitely a bit overwhelmed the first few days, partly due to the frenetic pace of activity and partly due the jet lag.I eventually found a rhythm, helping out where ever I could, be it helping Max out with the bikes or going out on a moto with the team on training rides with water and tools, or helping with chores around the house.

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