I never learned how to ride a bicycle until I was in my mid twenties. Fraternal eight year old twins I was babysitting in graduate school, Micheal and Hanna, taught me how to ride in the spring of 1999. It was not until 2001, after my husband and I bought my first bike for 13 dollars from an old man in Shelby, NC, I fell hard for a bike... More

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Bathing a Bike

This stunningly beautiful picture was taken at Lake Awassa.



Photo Submitted by: Tesfalem who is a journalist in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

He says: "As a journalist I bring my camera wherever I go for reporting. I took this picture when I visited Lake Awassa in May 2007. As one of the Ethiopian cities whose residents use bikes as a favorite transportation means, it is not unusual to see them care for their bikes."

Rainy Day in Addis

On Bole Road at 7:30 am



Photo By Tobian who currently blogs at Tobian Think Tank

While bikes in Addis Ababa

... are rare, out side of the Ethiopian capital, they are much more common.

These pictures were taken in the Afar Region of Ethiopia.









Photos by: Olga De-Biaggio.

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