Owners of the wooden bicycle known as a chikudu couldn’t be much prouder of the primitive vehicles, which carry massive loads and put food on the table.
GOMA, Congo — It’s an ungainly beast of a machine: a wooden bicycle with handlebars like great bull’s horns, two runtish wooden wheels, a chunky frame like a squashed triangle and no pedals. There’s no seat either, just a kneepad fixed to the frame, made from a spongy Chinese flip-flop.
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