The two cycle rides that were carried out to celebrate World Bicycle Day at Ciclovida de Cali, were very well received
- Nearly 200 people participated in the tours of the two cycle tours that opened the day of commemoration of World Bicycle Day in the Cali Cycle Life
- Special prizes, rumba, crafts and sports around the bicycle, were the activities that the users of the Cali Cycle Lifethe more they enjoyed during the first day of June 2024
- In the eight seasons of the Cali Cycle Life, the love for the ‘steel horse’ was the protagonist during the celebration of World Bicycle Day
Santiago de Cali, June 2, 2024
(6:00 am) Very sharp, Tiago woke up without the need for an alarm. The plan was to go on a bike ride for the first time with his mother, Alicia López. They arrived on time at the El Ingenio de la station. Cali Cycle Life: “I was very anxious, I couldn’t wait to come. It is the first time he has done a long bike ride,” Alicia commented. And Tiago, at 5 years old, knows that his mother goes out every weekend to ride a bike with her training group. But this time, it was different. He could accompany her. There was no room for happiness. During the warm-up before the start, Tiago jumped and stretched. There next to him and with a pink uniform, a matching helmet and his stuffed pet.Flower’, Very well positioned and dressed in the basket of her bike, Valery, a 9-year-old girl who, despite her nerves, ‘signed up’ with her father to enjoy the bike ride organized by the Cali Cycle Life to celebrate World Bicycle Day.
“It is our duty to encourage and support sports in our children. The bike helps us release and heal. Depressions and anxieties go away when you practice this sport. Valery has always wanted to ride a bike and this was the perfect opportunity,” said Jhony Romero, the girl’s father.
With a loudspeaker to the rhythm of the song ‘Periódico de Ayer’ by salsa singer Héctor Lavoe, Herney Bustos also arrived with his bicycle to join the cycle ride. His ‘horse of steel’ is a monument to salsa. Flags, stickers and signs everywhere with the ‘I salsa’ are obvious.
Everything was ready and the ride cycle started. The goal, Panamericana Station on 9th and 37th Street. On stage, the Metropolitan Police orchestra was already enlivening the aerorrumba. Happy with the people’s response, the Secretary of Sports and Recreation, Felipe Montoya Montoya, recorded a live video for social networks in the middle of the crowd. He ran into Jesús María Lucumí, the first Afro cyclist to participate in a Vuelta a Colombia. In fact there were seven in total. He started there in the 50’s. He managed to win only a first place in one of the many stages in Girardot. “But the real achievement was that a person with my skin color managed to participate in a space like this and at that time when the issue of racism was so evident,” Lucumí commented.
Today, at 87 years old and with enviable body mobility, he was very attentive to the arrival of the cycle rides that took place in the Cali Cycle Life. “Talking about the bicycle is talking about discipline, overcoming fears, beating the mind. This space invites you to practice the sport, to share and to be respectful of other people who also come here to do it,” added the former cyclist.
During this first day of June 2024 of the Cali Cycle Life, It was evident that the ‘steel horse’ has a very special place in the hearts of the people of Cali.
“More than 200 cyclists were present today as we commemorated World Bicycle Day. It doesn’t surprise me because this is a city that exudes sport, that loves Cali Cycle Life. That is the message that we want to deliver every Sunday: that you enjoy this space, that sport is health. Our city is a privileged capital, with a sensational climate and also with a cycle life that is surely envied in any part of the country and the world,” said Felipe Montoya Montoya, Secretary of Sports and Recreation of Cali.
Nobody was left without filming today (06/02/2024) in the Cali Cycle Life! He steel horse took center stage during the celebration that this Sunday space organized to commemorate World Bicycle Day in Sultana del Valle.
Communications Team Cali Department of Sports and Recreation.
