Originally Posted by sheba

About a year ago I stumbled upon this bike on the web. This bike is made by Project Rwanda and has already been distributed to several thousand coffee farmers in Rwanda, hence the name. After a bunch of phone calls and unreturned e-mails, I finally found some coffee bikes in the US. I was able to get one shipped to me for a sweet deal.
The bike came fully ready to ride. Most of the parts were lower quality; I did quite a bit a work to get to the bike to where it is now. I semi-copied the extra-cycle freeloader bag system and sewed up my own bags with 1000 denier cordura nylon and heavy duty nylon webbing. The system works awesome. The bike handles great. This summer I rode it to Seattle, WA and back from my house in Eau Claire, WI; no failures.