A small British charity is offering people the chance to snap up ex-postie Pashley bicycles for just £250. Once destined for the scrapper, the fleet of 5,000 Pashley Pronto bicycles will be refurbished and sold off to the public by Staffordshire based charity the Krizevac Project.
The good news doesn’t end there though, because for every bike sold in the UK, the company will send one to Malawi, Africa, where it can transform the daily lives of locals.
The bikes won’t retain their traditional red colouring; instead they’ll be offered in a choice of four shades and will be rebranded as the Elephant bike… Yes, you read that correctly, and there’s a good story behind it too.. The reason for the change stems back to an incident involving ex-Royal Mail bikes that were donated to Malawi and were used to patrol the perimeter fence of an endangered Black Rhino.
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Fence wardens welcomed their new tools for the patrol but elephants took spectacular objection to the Royal red hue, so much so that one of the wardens was chased for 20 minutes by an irate elephant. The bikes were returned to the workshop where they were then re-sprayed in a ‘bush friendly’ green shade. This worked a treat, and the result was happy elephants, safe and efficient fence wardens and a better protected Black Rhino!
Just like the neighbour's dog, elephants don't seem to be too keen on the postie
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