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Dan Craven, or Dan from Nam, as he was known during his professional road racing career, had for years dreamt of starting his own handmade bike brand at home in Namibia, Onguza. He had traveled the world riding and racing bikes, but he knew that to find the best builders, returning home to Namibia would make the most sense…

Rapha Films presents Migration, a documentary about the Migration Gravel Race, a four-day, 650km offroad bike race in the Maasai Mara. Created by Team AMANI and marshalled by local Maasai, the Migration attracts the best gravel bike athletes in the world.

This film explores the importance of the event to Team AMANI and their Black Mamba Development Squad; and how they are building the sport in East Africa, nurturing the next generation of endurance athletes on two wheels. Focusing on the riders of Team AMANI and Black Mambas, Migration is an insight into the work of AMANI and how this incredible race is symbolic of the Team’s character and ambition.

Courage Adams returns to Nigeria, Africa to fulfill his promise to build the first-ever skatepark in Lagos, giving local BMX fanatics the opportunity to push the limits of the local sports scene.

POC and Team AMANI are proud to release the Migration edition collection of helmets and eyewear. The new gold Ventral Air ($280) is combined with matching gold Devour Ultra sunglasses ($290), each featuring a unique lanyard made by hand at the Maji Moto Maasai Women’s project, a cultural centre and refuge for vulnerable Maasai women.

Since 2021 the ambition of Team AMANI has been to climb to the highest peaks of the sport and make East Africa the home of not just endurance runners, but cycling champions as well. Currently plying their craft on the open frontier of gravel racing; these young athletes have the legs and desire to change the landscape…

There are certain rides and races that truly leave their mark. The Migration Gravel Race is more than just Gravel cycling, more than a race, it is a miraculous human experience, for the participants, organisers, and communities of Kenya (human and animal). Rare moments of life shared…

Orbea Leatt Speed Company Racing‘s duo of Lukas Baum and Georg Egger gives us a behind-the-scenes view of the 2023 Cape Epic endurance mountain biking race. Get an insider’s view of this grueling race.

“We’ve got Lions!” Dan Craven’s Namibian handmade bicycle brand, ONGUZA, announces a collaboration with photographer Ben Ingham. ONGUZA was founded in 2020 by two-time Namibian Olympic Road Cyclist and professional rider Dan Craven, and is part owned by the company’s Namibian master framebuilders Sakaria Nkolo and Petrus Mufenge.

We’re a little late to the congratulatory party but we want to congratulate writer, filmmaker, endurance-rider, and Radavist contributor, McKenzie Barney on the completion of her Cycle the World Project! McKenzie has shared several stories from her 18,000-mile journey that spanned five continents, and four years, and we can’t wait to see more stories from this impressive journey.

For Malawi teen mothers Maggie and Febby, a bicycle can mean the difference between staying in school or not. Knowing that education equals a brighter future, for them and their daughters, these young mothers strive to finish their schooling despite an almost two-hour walk to school. The gift of two wheels might be the perfect answer…

One of our contributors, Ryan Le Garrec, just took part in the Migration Gravel Race last week in Kenya. It is a 650 km off-road stage race with 8000 meters climbing in the Massai Mara. The grueling but rewarding course attracted lots of riders from all over the world. Among them was Unbound winner and second, Ian Boswell and Laurens Ten Dam. But more importantly, the race took pride in featuring local talents, riders from Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda.

The race organization wants to have an impact on African cyclists representation in gravel and road races around the world.

On the fringe of the Namib Desert lies the Skeleton Coast. No one has ever completed its entire length in an unbroken line before by their own power. Explorer Kate Leeming sets out to be the first.

Her thousand-mile journey sees her enduring some of the most inhospitable terrains and harshest climates on the planet, in one of Africa’s most remote and spectacular locations. Accompanied by local companions, she battles extreme winds, energy-sapping sand dunes and quicksand, and comes face to face with the endangered but deadly Kunene Lions hidden in the vast desert. Travelling on an all-wheel drive fat-bike, she traverses beautiful landscapes and discovers the region’s hidden secrets and the harsh realities of life in this unforgiving land.

Watch the full documentary at Outside.

What would you see on a bike tour in Tanzania? This video showcases the sights and sounds from a six day tour with One Bike Tanzania.