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...addition to raising money for ODN, the bikers must pay their own living expenses during the trip and transportation to the start and/or home from the finish...
Last year, ODN decided to limit the size of each trip--there were four last year--to 20 or fewer riders for logistical purposes. The general age range on the trips is 15-28 years old, although there are 60-year olds who participate, Collins says. Also there are usually more female than male riders, says Guo, one of the leaders on the San Francisco trip last summer...
...that prior to the trip, he had absolutely no experience riding a bicycle. "I had only ridden a three-speed bike in Singapore when I was young, and I had to learn from scratch," he says. Guo became involved with Bike-Aid when he was asked to develop an ODN package to educate the riders about the issues. "After writing the package and thinking so much about what it meant, I decided I had to go on the ride to see how the knowledge was actually used," he says...
...routes have been used before, so the group can call established contacts three days before its arrival to make sure there is no problem. "If there were problems, we contacted the main office at Stanford, [one of two regional ODN offices] and they helped us work things out," Faber says...
...save water. The peasants hear that the United States government is giving aid, but then the riders act out a sequence showing that when money is given through governments, it is used along the way and never actually gets to the peasants. The peasants are told to apply to ODN, and then they get the money for a well directly, Faber explains...