![]() ![]() This represents at least 1 bike (almost 2 bikes) sent to Malawi for every bike sold here in the UK.įor over a hundred years, the Royal Mail commissioned top-quality, British made bikes for posties delivering our mail. When a bike is purchased 100% of the remaining £80 (based on a £330 sale) is used to ship bicycles to Malawi. ![]() In the UK, it costs us around £250 to collect, store, process, shot-blast, powder coat, transport, purchase spares/baskets, do a final quality check, sell and package/post each bike. The profits from Beebikes funds care for pre-school children in our own Mother Teresa Children’s Center in the heart of the township. Bikes in Malawi can be life transforming and often mean an income for life. They are then sold to Malawians who can travel to work, transport goods to market and travel miles to school or college. This African workshop employs eight local people to repair and service the donated bikes from Britain. Sponsorship from Mobal Communications Ltd, and the ‘buy one give one’ scheme has helped us to ship thousands of ex-postal Mailstar bikes to Malawi over the past six years. One of our most successful enterprises is BeeBikes. This helps to break the cycle of poverty and creates future Malawian business leaders. All of the money generated by the enterprises pays for children’s education and community family support. To date 500 people who previously lived on less than £1 per day are in secure long-term employment. These businesses create training opportunities and meaningful jobs. Since 2007 Krizevac Project (our parent charity) has worked hard to create viable social enterprises in a community hub known as Beehive. During the late 1970s and 1980s they were the standard issue motorcycle for volunteers.In Chilomoni Township, Malawi, a quiet revolution of enterprise creation is helping to end poverty for some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Among the original users was Danish aid organisation Danida. Īpart from the Australian market, large numbers of CT110 and CT90 models were also brought to Tanzania in east Africa, where many are still in use today. A slightly modified version, the CT110 AG, is sold for agricultural use.Īfter almost 30 years of only being available via second-hand sale from Australia Post in bulk lots, Honda began selling the road-registerable model to the domestic market in July 2009. In Australia and New Zealand it is known as a "Postie Bike" due to its use by Australia Post and New Zealand Post as a delivery bike, without the dual range sub-transmission. ![]() The CT110 is still in production and sold in other countries around the world. The motorcycle was imported from 1980 to 1986. The 1980 model of CT110 lacked the dual range sub-transmission, but that returned in following years. In the US the CT110 came with factory street legal lighting and mirrors, a large luggage rack, center stand, and an auxiliary gas can. That coupled with a 2:1 ratio gear reduction box known as the dual range sub-transmission, which switched into operation using a small lever under the transmission case, allowed the bike to climb steep slopes. It has a semi-automatic four-speed transmission and a centrifugal clutch. The base CT110 105 cc (6.4 cu in) four-stroke air-cooled single-cylinder engine which is nearly horizontal in the step-through tube/stamping frame. ![]()
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