[civsoc-mw] Elephants don’t like red 🐘

[Tony Thontholani]

We love a bike with a story and Stewart's current work in progress has an amazing history. Read on👇

For more than a hundred years our posties delivered our treasured mail on their trusted, British-made, Pashley bikes but unfortunately, our penchant for online ordering and emails meant the Royal Mail had to rethink their delivery processes and the bikes were phased out. 

The Krizevac Project has been saving these bikes from landfill; lovingly restoring them and selling them in the UK, but that's not the end of their story. For every bike they sell, they ship another to Malawi in Africa to help locals start up social enterprises or small businesses, thus creating job opportunities and an income for one of the poorest countries in the world. 👏

🐘 Why 'Elephant Bike', well some of the Malawi bikes were sold to Liwonde National Park; home to the majority of Malawi’s protected wildlife. The Fence Wardens were delighted with their ex-postal bikes and their new found ability to complete 30-mile patrols of the rhino fencing in record time. But it turns out that elephants don’t like red and the Wardens were at danger of being chased. Desperate to solve this problem, the Wardens tried out some re-sprayed green bikes. Remarkably, the elephants no longer gave chase… and the first Elephant Bike were born.

This amazing bike has done its bit to support our postal system and an international charity and now it's supporting Outfit Moray. What a story and what a bike to be able to own! 

🐘 Source 👇 https://www.cycleofgood.com/elephant-bike/

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