66 | Cycling World
Cycling
For Rangers
By Will Johnson, Charlie Rose,
Theo Bromfield and Will Addison
What do the sleepy villages of the Cotswolds and the
vast swathes of wilderness in Sub-Saharan Africa have
in common
ell not a lot really, a art from that four
young men will have cycled through both by the end of
this year.
Cycling For Rangers is a group of friends who have
a collective passion for the outdoors, conservation,
filmmaking, writing and cycling. They’re combining all of
these in their cycle from Johannesburg to Nairobi.
Over the past few years they’ve had countless
hypothetical conversations about what great adventures
they’d love to do one day. At the wackier end of the
scale, there was talk of roller skating from John O’Groats
to Lands’ End, a Channel crossing from Dover to Calais
by pedlo and cycling from Paris to Barcelona in what
can only described as “the bike thing that the Chuckle
rothers drove.
ther ideas they’ve floated have been
rowing the Atlantic, circumnavigating Ireland by bicycle
and riding a Boris bike from London to Moscow.
They decided on the most ambitious plan yet: an 8,000km
snaking cycle from Johannesburg to Nairobi, through
eight countries and ten national arks. The motivation
To raise awareness about a cause and part of the world
that they feel passionately about; conservation and
particularly the welfare of anti-poaching rangers across
sub-Saharan Africa.