[DRB]

What does Tom Ritchey, mountain bike legend, decide to do at 50?

Make a difference is what.

www.projectrwanda.org

http://www.velonews.com/tech/report/articles/10960.0.html

"I'm 49 and realized I'm halfway done," my former boss Tom Ritchey told me wistfully at Interbike. "What am I going to do with the second half of my life?"

His answer is Project Rwanda (www.projectrwanda.org), a development project designed to assist in lifting Rwandans out of the devastating financial conditions they find themselves in after their devastating 1994 civil war marked by tribal genocide and the deaths of nearly a million Rwandans in 100 days. At the heart of Ritchey's involvement is a new bicycle he is designing from the ground up to make transportation in general and transport of coffee beans in particular more attainable.

Its a very cool article.

 

[peter6061]

Very cool.

 

[JohnE]

Cool guy, cool bikes, cool project. Nice to see someone doing something good in the world.