MTN-Qhubeka Trek Madone

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It may surprise you to learn that MTN-Qhubeka are a South African Pro-Continental team, and as such represent the first African team to compete at such a high level in professional cycling.

MTN-Qhubeka team Trek Madone 7 with SRAM RED

The MTN-Qhubeka team and the Trek bike they ride are part of a huge project to help rural communities in Africa. Qhubeka means “to carry on”, “to progress”, “to move forward” in the native languages of South Africa and Qhubeka, a voluntary organisation, runs projects that help rural communities progress by giving bicycles to children in return for work done to improve their environment and their community.

MTN-Qhubeka Trek has Zipp 303 Firecrest wheels

In South Africa 12 million out of the 16 million school going children walk to school, and 500,000 walk for more than two hours each way! That’s four hours getting to and back from school each day. Bicycles are the most effective and economical method of quickly addressing this problem and Qhubeka have distributed more than 40,000 bikes since 2004. Their aim though is to deliver 200,000 bikes by 2020.

MTN-Qhubeka Trek SRAM RED Rear Derailleur

As the team’s bike supplier, Trek have got involved and when racing cyclists buy a bike through the Trek Project One scheme and customize their Madone, Domane, or Speed Concept with the MTN-Qhubeka team paint scheme, Trek donate $200 to Qhubeka to aid their mission of mobilising a generation of Africa’s youth. So by purchasing an MTN-Qhubeka bike, riders actually buy two bikes; one for themselves and one for a child in rural South Africa who will gain a way of getting to school, carrying clean water and creating a better life for themselves.

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