Bike Culture Archive Toronto & Beyond 2003-2012.
Photography by Martin Reis and Hamish Wilson.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Bikes To Rwanda
3 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Notice the cool hand crafted wooden scooters the kids are riding right at the end?
They should've been featured!
And why aren't the bikes being fabricated locally: send some of our technicians (bike builders: metal fabricators; mechanics; machinists) over with the necessary equipment/tooling. Start developing an urban micro-industrial capability.
There are MANY people in the City of Detroit (not far from where I live) who live in abject poverty and can NOT afford to own a car. It would be nice to see some charity provide bikes for working poor adults right here at home.
Don't mean to rant -- just wanted to make the point that you don't have to cross the ocean to find folks in need of help with transportation access.
Excellent point. As a Canadian, we have our own third-world up north ... besides the urban poor of our southern cities. And people/charities and the gov't focus their attention on the Third World, ignoring our very real problems right here.
3 comments:
Notice the cool hand crafted wooden scooters the kids are riding right at the end?
They should've been featured!
And why aren't the bikes being fabricated locally: send some of our technicians (bike builders: metal fabricators; mechanics; machinists) over with the necessary equipment/tooling. Start developing an urban micro-industrial capability.
It is a very good cause, but...
There are MANY people in the City of Detroit (not far from where I live) who live in abject poverty and can NOT afford to own a car. It would be nice to see some charity provide bikes for working poor adults right here at home.
Don't mean to rant -- just wanted to make the point that you don't have to cross the ocean to find folks in need of help with transportation access.
-- North of Eight Mile
Excellent point. As a Canadian, we have our own third-world up north ... besides the urban poor of our southern cities. And people/charities and the gov't focus their attention on the Third World, ignoring our very real problems right here.
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