And now for some good news...

[thom]

Thom: I did see one of those copies of Rouleur about the Rwandan tour in W. H.Smiths, but once I saw the price I put it back on the shelf. Lovely magazine mind!

Pics by Ben Ingham online here

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Pics by Ben Ingham online here

Superb shots. Thanks.

 

[Russell Allen]

truly beautiful photographs

 

[Muguruki]

Yep! Lovely photos.

 

[User169]

This might be worth a look for those interested in African cycling..

http://risingfromashesthemovie.com/

(Oddly, it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the BBC link above)

 

[thom]

This might be worth a look for those interested in African cycling..

http://risingfromashesthemovie.com/

(Oddly, it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the BBC link above)

Excellent - thanks, will look out for the film on release.

 

[Rubber Bullets]

I can't wait for Phil Ligget and Paul Sherwen to do the commentry. They have enough bother with english names.

Phil Ligget may have a problem, but Paul Sherwen was brought up in Kenya, and now lives in Uganda, and speaks fluent Swahili, so he shouldn't have any problems. In fact he might be better at the African names.

RB

 

[User169]

Talking of Uganda and Rwanda - if you were to cycle across the border between those two countries, what would you need to do?

 

[thom]

Talking of Uganda and Rwanda - if you were to cycle across the border between those two countries, what would you need to do?

Take a boat ? Is their border on Lake Victoria ?

 

[User169]

Take a boat ? Is their border on Lake Victoria ?

Cross to the other side of the road! Uganda is drive on the left, Rwanda drive on the right, which I suppose reflects their colonial legacies. It's one of only a few land borders where this happens apparently.

 

[Muguruki]

Take what you like to Rwanda but don't take any plastic carrier bags! They are well strict on bags I've heard of travellers having their carrier bags taken from them at the border.

Dervla Murphy cycled across the border in her book Ukimwi road where she cycles from Kenya to South Africa.

I've only got as far as Kabale the town near the border.

Oh, and Rwanda is not on Lake Victoria.

 

[PpPete]

Don't know what that particular border is like, but the standard "visa" (or if you prefer, "gift" for co-operative border guards) in most of post-colonial Africa always used to be a carton of 200 Marlboro.

 

[User169]

Phil Ligget may have a problem, but Paul Sherwen was brought up in Kenya, and now lives in Uganda, and speaks fluent Swahili, so he shouldn't have any problems. In fact he might be better at the African names.

RB

Running a gold mine in which liggett and armstrong are investors!

 

[thom]

Surely there must be some good news ?

 

[Sam Cycling]

There's a little bit of history here. Eritrean and Ethiopian cycling is one of the few positive legacies of the Italian colonial occupation of what was then Abyssinia. There is a a Tour of Eritrea which is one of the top African races, and a really tough one at that.

And watch out for this guy, Natnael Behane, who will ride for Europcar next season. A major talent. You heard it here first!

I read approx 10 years ago about cyclin in Eritrea and it was very popular sport !