Tour d’Afrique presents “the Naked Mile”

Today things got weird. Rumours have been floating around for a while that some years ago one of the tour groups decided to strip down and ride their bikes naked for a mile. For any normal group of people this idea would seem to be ludicrous… but we are a band of individuals who have decided riding bikes from Cairo to Cape Town sounds like a grand vacation. Therefore, upon hearing that such an ad hoc celebration of the flesh had occurred on years prior an adventurous group of our cyclists  (myself included) decided to take it upon themselves to “gear down and go for it”.  

            After a grueling 90km uphill slog to lunch roughly 15 riders finished their lunch, did a quick gut-check and removed their shirts and shorts. 3 months and 3 weeks of living with one another has given our more adventurous riders the testicular (or ovular for that matter) wherewithal and fortitude to bare all in front of one another. It was a gritty, greasy mile of riding for those involved but having completed one of the ultimate challenges of the tour all involved are quite happy they decided to go for it.