The Kenyan Riders-Safaricom U23 Development Team.

OK. Throughout this website is a gratuitous fashion spread of cyclists and ladies we found in the village of Iten, for no other reason than that Nicholas Leong couldn't think of new and interesting ways to photograph a bunch of guys on bikes.

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running." Put a human in the equation, and that's why Kenyans are the best marathoners in the world.

Well yes, but not just running. The sport of cycling remains the least diverse of all global sports, and it needs more brothers in it. Kenyan Riders-Safaricom are here to add colour to the world of cycling!

Read on and you'll see why we think we're on to something.