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From Lake Bunyoni to the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, our finish line and the home of the mountain gorillas. This last blog of the Old Legs Silverback Tour is coming to you from the back seat of an Isuzu D-Max twin cab which has almost as much legroom as my bicycle. Over and above sore bottoms,…

Days 30 and 31 of the Old Legs Silverback Tour – From Masaka, a not so little town in the east of Uganda, to a Swiss lakeside resort in the west. Day 30Distance- 100.3 kmClimb – 1104 mTime – 6 hr 15 minAve Heart Rate – 118 bpmMax Heart Rate – 163 bpm. Day 31Distance-…

We are riding to raise money and awareness for Zimbabwe’s pensioners. Those pensioners lucky enough to receive pensions are expected to survive on US$ 18 per month. They would have to save every penny for 555 months to pay for a hip replacement operation. Hip replacement operations should be a human right, not a lifetime…

Already on day 27 and still going strong. The hills and dust are a challenge but their journey to raise money for pensioners in Zimbabwe spurs the riders on. Day 25 of the Old Legs Silverback Tour – From Kigoma to Makere, somewhere near the Burundi border. Distance- 76 kmClimb – 628 mTime – 5…

I am blogging to you from Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika, in northern Tanzania. We are 15 kilometers from the Burundi border and Goma in the DRC is just across the Lake. Since my life, I have had absolutely no desire to go anywhere near either place, but here I am. Our Old Legs mantra is…

The Old Legs Silverback Tour is raising much-needed funds for pensioners in Zimbabwe who require medical and financial support under harsh economic conditions. I am blogging to you from Juma’s Campsite on the Northern boundary of the Katavi National Park. As I type, I can hear a hippo snorting in the river 20 meters below…

Follow the adventure that is a few old men riding 3000 kilometres for old people in order to make their lives more comfortable and assist with medical bills by raising much-needed funds. They are brave, amusing, and are pedalling hard. Day 18 and 19 of the Old Legs Silverback Tour – From Nakonde, Zambia to…

Follow intrepid pensioners from Zimbabwe and other countries as they ride 3000 kilometres from Zimbabwe to Uganda to raise much-needed funds for the elderly in Zimbabwe who are struggling to live in an uncertain economy. Day 12 of the Old Legs Silverback Tour – From the middle of nowhere to a Bushcamp on the Luangwa…

Apologies for the break-in transmission. We’ve been travelling on Zambia’s A105 highway for 4 days now, headed for Uganda. Apparently, according to Billy, the A105 is just like Route 66 back in the US, but just without any tar, without any traffic, no cellphone coverage, no Internet coverage, no road signs, no towns, no fuel…

Day 7 of the Old Legs Silverback Tour – The Bush Camp where my death bed almost was to Chipata, a.k.a. Fort Jameson in a previous life. Distance – 65 kmClimb – 455 mTime – 4 hr 28 minAve Heart Rate – 120 bpmMax Heart Rate – 169 bpm Thankfully the Support Team were able…