XAccess Dispatches
We get enthusiastic letters and comments from
all over the world. Below find some of the most striking dispatches
from XAccess partners, customers, and friends.
| Name |
Dispatch |
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Rick Randall
Volunteer, Makinu Children's Center, Kenya
6/12/02
|
Hello Paul, I spent 3 months
in Kenya last winter working on a water distribution project
for the makindu childrens center. I found that the bicycles
there are used like pickups especialy in the rural areas.
I'm going back there this coming winter and would like to
set a couple of the centers bikes up with your product.
|
Julia Butterfly
Hill,
Environmental Activist and Author, after learning about
Xtracycle and the Xtracycle Access Foundation.
12/18/01 |
"I’ve literally
been dreaming of something just like this." |
|
Mark Babsky,
Surfrider Foundation
Ventura, California
10/22/01
|
The bike and Xtracycle
worked out great. At one of our protests against the planned
highway through San Onofre State Park, we displayed the
bike and xtracycle holding a surfboard - the surfboard had
a "Save San Onofre State Park" message painted
on it. More surfers and other beachgoers need to get out
of their cars and bike to the beach. Space taken by cars
(and their accompying roads and parking lots), as well as
the toxic brew of runoff pollution from cars, and cars'
use of fossil fuels, and cars' noise, etc. are all serious
coastal environmental issues, so for us, teaming up with
Xtracycle fits in well with pursuing the Surfrider mission.
|
Scott Zapotocky
Peace Corps, Ghana
9/05/01 |
I'm stoked about [the Xtracycle],
and so is the village, and more importantly my tree Nursery…
We use it primarily to transport improved mangos to farmers
in rural "bush" communities.
We use the beast [read: the xtracycle] a lot and most recently
to collect 200 sacks of grass to plant on a soccer field
we are building/preparing. |
Paul Steely
White
Director, Africa Programs, ITDP
After a trip to Senegal, promoting XtraBikes made in Afribike’s
workshop.
9/7/2000 |
We met this guy named Mustapha
who wanted to buy one on the spot. He has a business cycling
to various markets and making breakfast for shoppers. He
travels with a whole kitchen on his back carrier (about
50kg) but this is really a grind with his extant bike. After
testing the X he was convinced. |
