Dear Friends, Hope each one of you is doing well.
I’m very happy to announce formation of the ABBF Cycling Chapter in Mumbai for the benefit of visually impaired as well as other disabilities. Adventures Beyond Barriers Foundation is a Pune-based non-profit founded by a very inspiring personality, my friend, Divyanshu Ganatra, who himself is blind but has scaled heights that even sighted may envy. He’s the only blind person known to have para-glided alone and thanks to his efforts thousands of disabled are able to enjoy paragliding, mountaineering, cycling, and scuba diving amongst host of other sports. Read more here: https://abbf.in/ Back to cycling; if you remember when you could pedal, float on two wheels, feel the speed when you could see, or if not lucky yet, live the dreams now. For folks who haven’t seen tandems yet, it’s a two seater - one behind the other. The front sighted rider, called the pilot or captain, controls the steering, the brakes and the gears. The rear rider, generally a blind, called the stoker, helps to pedal. And tandems obviously have two sets of pedals. These are superb machines. I have enjoyed my adventures on them while racing from Pune to Goa, while pedalling to the top of KhardungLa, arguably the highest motorable road in the world. Have a look at our award-winning 12 minute movie- Beyond KhardungLa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3QxOlGc1Vk So if you are interested do join our Whatsapp group from the following link and let’s catch up there for more. Time to roll... https://chat.whatsapp.com/H5HTwfxcPjuCm9ZlZCha8J ~Cheers! Eki Thus please pardon typos. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
