Coffee Bikes

Bicycles play an important role in coffee farming. Everyday, 300,000 coffee growers tend the coffee plants on Rwanda's mountainous, volcanic soil. The quicker the coffee beans (called cherries) get to the washing station, the higher quality they maintain. Traditionally, Rwandans either walk their cherries miles to collection points or ride rickety handmade wooden bikes. Not only are the wooden bikes unsafe and illegal, they are not efficient and are often incapable of carrying heavy bags of cherries.

Tom Ritchey, innovator of mountain biking in the United States and owner of Ritchey Design, created a cargo bike that enables coffee farmers to travel safer, faster, and produce a higher quality bean. Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee™, in conjunction with Project Rwanda, is working to make coffee bikes accessible to coffee farmers in Bukonya, Rwanda. Land of a Thousand Hills has established a fund that allows Rwandan farmers the opportunity to microfinance a coffee bike. With your $250 dollar investment, a farmer in Bukonya can begin to build a better life.

In ten years, a $250 investment in Sustainable Cycle™ provides five farmers the opportunity to microfinance a coffee bike and sustains a village. As the coffee farmer makes payments on the bike over a period of two years, your investment is recycled, allowing another farmer the opportunity to finance a bike, and the Sustainable Cycle continues.

Coffee Bike Frame $100

Coffee Bike Saddle $25.00

Coffee Bike Wheels $75.00

Coffee Bike Handlebars $50.00

Coffee Bike Complete $250.00