{"id":5302,"date":"2018-01-15T17:54:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T16:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edoardomelchiori.com\/?p=5302"},"modified":"2018-01-15T18:07:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T17:07:03","slug":"appenninica-mtb-tour-with-rebecca-rusch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edoardomelchiori.com\/en\/appenninica-mtb-tour-with-rebecca-rusch.html","title":{"rendered":"Appenninica MTB tour with Rebecca Rusch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am proud to say I will be the photographer of the first edition of Appenninica MTB tour, a fund raiser and MTB vacation over the Italian divide that will take place from the 28th of July to the 4th of August 2018.\u00a0Appenninica is organized by Tourissimo<\/a> in partnership with World Bicycle Relief<\/a> and will be co-hosted by the MTB legend and Red Bull Bike<\/a> athlete Rebecca Rusch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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But let’s start from the beginning. I’ve had the pleasure to meet the staff of World Bicycle Relief<\/a> a few years ago at a IMBA Europe Summit.<\/a>\u00a0For the ones who don’t know it yet\u00a0World Bicycle Relief was founded in 2005 by SRAM<\/a> co-founder and Executive Vice President F.K. Day and is an international, non-profit organization based in Chicago that specializes in large-scale, comprehensive bicycle distribution programs to aid poverty relief in developing countries around the world. Their programs focus primarily on education, economic development, and health care. As of November 2015, World Bicycle Relief has distributed more than 275,000 bicycles and trained more than 1,000 bicycle mechanics in the developing world.\u00a0What they are doing with the Buffalo bike is remarkable to say the least, I strongly suggest you to support them if you can<\/a>.<\/p>\n