Tour d'Afrique in pictures from Simon Gardner

Simon's back, rested and put together all his photos onto Flickr of the amazing Cairo to CapeTown Tour d'Afrique 2009 journey by bicycle. His full blog is here. Simon incredibly fundraised for AVIF, enough to cover another years secondary education for Pius and Norbert, 2 Yala boys, who he met when riding through Kenya March 5.



The images speak their own words and give incredible details to the road conditions so make a coffee and scroll through by clicking here to take you to the full photostream.


Namibia desert



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An engineering specialist school

This morning I went to see Skipton Girls High School, just down the road, about collaboration with KO2. They are an amazing school, dealing with all the normal curriculum as well as encouraging girls to get involved with engineering.

Last year they became TV heroes when they competed on the BBC with Top Gear's James May and others, building an old-style "bogie" or go-kart from a Silver Cross pram. The girls were given only 2 weeks and had to work flat out even at weekend cutting, hammering, bending, drilling, welding and finally painting the go-kart. Local boys school Ermysted also competed but the girls won by average, beating even Silver Cross's own commissioned bogie raced by James May.



SGHS are now interested in taking part in the programmes of KO2, to introduce electric powered dirtbike engineering to their pupils. We're talking with Zero Motorcycles about a franchise with their fab bikes, competing in TTXGP next month.



Hopefully soon we'll be pushing ahead bringing more and more kids into dirtbiking outside and inside school!



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