http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Sports Stories from around the African Commonwealth en Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:33:33 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12761#post-152141 Tue, 06 May 2014 14:08:53 +0000 SRD 152141@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7333/13935784099_be9a8ae9d2_o.png"></p> <p>Two films in particular on cycliing: </p> <p>10 gears of change showing in Inverness and Cromarty </p> <p>In rural South Africa, having a bicycle can make all the difference between freedom and confinement. It provides mobility and the chance to look for a job in a nearby village. In an effort to give the underprivileged workers at a local farm a new goal in life, the boss enters them as a cycling team in a large race in Cape Town. Surrounded by tall buildings and thousands of people, and blessed with innumerable new impressions, the proud, eleven-headed farm team cross the finishing line, winning not only a medal, but riding away with the experience of a lifetime.</p> <p>Rising from the ashes - Inverness, Dumfries, Glasgow, Edinburgh</p> <p>In Rwanda, ‘The Land of a Thousand Hills’, the bicycle is essential to life. It is how you move. It is how you work. And during the genocide of 1994, it was how you survived. Stand on any corner of any village throughout the country, and farmers will scream down hillsides barefoot on 25-year-old bikes loaded with 100 pounds of potatoes, bicycle taxi drivers peddle diligently with a mother and daughter in tow, and a child amuses himself for hours guiding a bent wheel down alleyways. It seems natural, maybe destined, that bike racing has a rich history in Rwanda. Rising From Ashes is a documentary about two worlds colliding when cycling legend Jock Boyer moves to Rwanda to help a group of struggling genocide survivors pursue their dream of a national team. As they set out against impossible odds both Jock and the team find new purpose as they rise from the ashes of their past.</p> <p><a href="http://www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/films-and-events/" rel="nofollow">http://www.africa-in-motion.org.uk/films-and-events/</a> </p>