TRAVERSE Issue 17 - April 2020 | Page 119

USWE makes bounce free action backpacks, primary for mountain bikers, off-road motorcycle riders, trail runners and skiers. USWE is a fast growing and award winning Swedish company. A company built by active people with a great passion and dedication to sports and its global community. The team at USWE noticed the Event Industry being one of the first businesses to be badly affected by the impact of Coronavirus. Events are cancelled in all the USWE sports arenas; Mountainbike, Motosports, Trail Running and Winter Sports. Often these events are run by small businesses, now needing to shut down. USWE know that people associated with these businesses and events are suffering right now. The expectations, dreams and goals for the coming season are put on hold. Like all of us, USWE acknowledge that sports and events like motorcycle riding play an important role in the way we interact as a community. The USWE guys have put their heads together (keep- ing a social distance, of course) and came up with a way of helping to support the organisations that help with the running of events, they want these organisations to survive. Coronavirus has forced organisers to stop their businesses from one day to another mopst of which are small or family businesses and associations. Their ob- jective is to provide the best experience they can, for all of us. This, they say, is pretty much like USWE ... They will therefore support local sports event organisers (in the USA) by donating $10 for every hyr- dation backpack sold through the official USWE United N States online store - uswe-sports.com USWE started this innitiative a month ago and will continue to do so until further notice. USWE is a small company. "We are not one of the big corporations with big wal- lets," they say. "Still we are a part of the 'dream factory', and we really want to make a difference if we can." They say they can't support all events but will help support whatever they can, together as an industry we can all make a difference! Like TRAVERSE, USWE hope that we can keep the sports, travel and motorcycle industry alive after the Coronavirus issues subsides. E W S TRAVERSE 119