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Tom Davidson

'It's an engineering feat' - Why this 23kg bicycle has two chains

World Bicycle Relief's Buffalo Utility S2 bike.

Jackton Achola runs a bread delivery service in Kenya. He gathers the loaves, places them into colourful pallets, and stacks them high, above his head, on the pannier of his Buffalo bike. He then secures the load down with two rubber cables, and pedals out across his community in Kisumu.

On one trip, Achola can distribute enough food for around 480 people. “I’ve done it for so many years,” he says. Recently, something has changed.

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