[IronJack]

Send them to Africa. With crummy roads (where there any roads at all), villagers and dwellers in outlying areas have no workable transportation except Barefoot Express. A bike can save a life in that environment.

And the Chinese are looking to make friends in Africa ...

[hanamizu]

Send them to Africa. With crummy roads (where there any roads at all), villagers and dwellers in outlying areas have no workable transportation except Barefoot Express.

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And bikes are a useful low-tech way of hauling freight. The user doesn’t ride the bike, he walks it.