Caleb Smith from Spoke Magazine recently flew over to Africa to meet up with Hans Rey, Phil Sundbaum, and Aaron Lutze from the "Summer of Shred" series. Aaron has written up their adventures here: http://www.matchvideozine.com/V2/newsdetail.php?id=164

During the trip they did work for Hans Rey's charity Wheels 4 Life - which donates bikes to developing countries: http://www.wheels4life.org/

Make sure you click the links in his article to check out the photos from their trip. Here's some samples to wet your appetite.

mob: I keep reading that as "Sherd"

Go Caleb!