July « 2010 « Cycling Around The World – the Blog

As I have visited South Africa two times my anttention was particularly drawn to these pages about South African every day bicycle culture.  SA is great country to travel around by bicycle but not a lot of people seem to do so.  Yes we’ve have seen mountain bikers and road racers (mostly white South Africans) but only very few other South Africans travelling by or using a bike. You may want to check out our travel reports

Stan Engelbrecht and a friend and fellow bicycle enthusiast, Nic Grobler, and started a project investigating South African bicycle culture, and the lack of cyclist commuters out there on our roads.

They want to raise the funds to turn this project into a self-published full-color hard-cover photographic book They’ll be shooting the entire project from their own bicycles while traveling around the country – this will enable them to meet everyday South Africans out there while they use their bicycles.

Bicycle Portraits from Bicycle Portraits on Vimeo.

Through publishing this book, they want to be able to assist the underprivileged cycling community through their project – be it teaching bicycle maintenance skills, providing necessities like helmets, tires, tubes, locks…