East Africa, the home of some of the best modern day long distance runners, Kenya and Uganda in particular are synonymous at producing elite level running talent. Cycling and East Africa, certainly do not appear in the same sentence very often, not yet at least!

There are many cultural and economic factors that one could point to for creating an argument as to why East Africa, and more specifically Uganda is not producing elite level riders, like it does runners. However, on the surface the answer is simple, the sport is too expensive and access to bikes is limited, certainly at least good quality bikes.

Trail Builder Mag is a passion project. I have no investors, no donors, no supporters, and no sponsors. But I also don’t have any overhead. What that means is we are financially sustainable from Day One. This is huge in this time of volatility in the print magazine world. That also means I don’t have a budget to jet-set to different locations and hire an army of writers and photographers. But I’m good with that. It doesn’t mean we won’t get there soon.