Help Lunsar Cycling buy 8 competition road bikes
Donation protected
We are asking for the help of the international cycling family to help us buy eight carbon fibre road bicycles on which to compete. We have a once in a decade chance to buy some road bikes from a team in Holland at an incredibly generous discount, effectively making each bike cost around £600 where they would retail for three or even four times that.
As a West African cycling team based out of Lunsar in Sierra Leone, a town of 30,000 people, we have no access to top of the range road bikes – and even at the generously reduced price which we can buy these machines, they still cost considerably more than most people in our country can earn in six months.
We need the help of the wider cycling community to purchase these bikes, so that riders from our team will have a competitive chance in races both domestically and internationally. Our plans are to build a cycling programme here in Sierra Leone that enhances the lives of people in our community and gives them a real shot at a professional career in the sport we love.
We cannot do that without decent bikes.
The bikes we currently rider are generously donated and we run with whatever parts we can find. There is no way to predict what or how many bikes will be donated, and the majority are not suitable for road racing. To buy eight matching bikes like the ones we are being offered now will set us up fantastically for the future, as we look to become more professional and better organised.
With these new bikes, we can focus on getting only Shimano parts from now on, so that there's a greater consistency across all our riders' bikes.
They will be used only for competition and not for training rides.
We want to own these bikes as a club, so that they are available to our racers when they compete. We will, however, also make them available to the Sierra Leonean national cycling team for international competitions.
Ours is the biggest cycling club in Sierra Leone – despite our hometown being a very small one – and these bikes will benefit our entire membership.
You might recently have seen us on social media, after we received a donation of EF Pro Cycling cycling kit from the professional rider Lachlan Morton . Now we need the quality bikes to go with the WorldTour level kit!
Two of our riders have already represented Sierra Leone internationally, competing at the Tour de Guinee in 2019. All riders who ride for the national team must compete on their own bikes. We would like to change that, so that we can create a greater consistency at a national level of competition and give our guys in the Sierra Leone team a fighting chance when they next compete abroad.
You can find us on Twitter , Facebook and Instagram if you want to see more of what we are up to.
As a West African cycling team based out of Lunsar in Sierra Leone, a town of 30,000 people, we have no access to top of the range road bikes – and even at the generously reduced price which we can buy these machines, they still cost considerably more than most people in our country can earn in six months.
We need the help of the wider cycling community to purchase these bikes, so that riders from our team will have a competitive chance in races both domestically and internationally. Our plans are to build a cycling programme here in Sierra Leone that enhances the lives of people in our community and gives them a real shot at a professional career in the sport we love.
We cannot do that without decent bikes.
The bikes we currently rider are generously donated and we run with whatever parts we can find. There is no way to predict what or how many bikes will be donated, and the majority are not suitable for road racing. To buy eight matching bikes like the ones we are being offered now will set us up fantastically for the future, as we look to become more professional and better organised.
With these new bikes, we can focus on getting only Shimano parts from now on, so that there's a greater consistency across all our riders' bikes.
They will be used only for competition and not for training rides.
We want to own these bikes as a club, so that they are available to our racers when they compete. We will, however, also make them available to the Sierra Leonean national cycling team for international competitions.
Ours is the biggest cycling club in Sierra Leone – despite our hometown being a very small one – and these bikes will benefit our entire membership.
You might recently have seen us on social media, after we received a donation of EF Pro Cycling cycling kit from the professional rider Lachlan Morton . Now we need the quality bikes to go with the WorldTour level kit!
Two of our riders have already represented Sierra Leone internationally, competing at the Tour de Guinee in 2019. All riders who ride for the national team must compete on their own bikes. We would like to change that, so that we can create a greater consistency at a national level of competition and give our guys in the Sierra Leone team a fighting chance when they next compete abroad.
You can find us on Twitter , Facebook and Instagram if you want to see more of what we are up to.
Organizer
Tom Owen
Organizer