![Jors Moentsabato: “It helps me a lot, this bicycle of mine. There where I go, I ride my bike. I bought this bike at the shop where they sell old stuff, I found it there.
Courtesy of Stan Engelbrecht
“Our initial interest was in maybe photographing a few commuters that ride beautiful hand-me-down racers as commuter bikes,” [photographer Stan] Engelbrecht writes via email. “But we soon found that very, very few South Africans actually commute by bicycle. Slowly we became interested in why so few choose … to ride in a country where it makes such absolute sense to do so.”
Bicycle Portraits: What Do Bikes Say About A Culture?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m33g6m3z9i1r9fnado1_500.jpg "Jors Moentsabato: “It helps me a lot, this bicycle of mine. There where I go, I ride my bike. I bought this bike at the shop where they sell old stuff, I found it there.
Courtesy of Stan Engelbrecht
“Our initial interest was in maybe photographing a few commuters that ride beautiful hand-me-down racers as commuter bikes,” [photographer Stan] Engelbrecht writes via email. “But we soon found that very, very few South Africans actually commute by bicycle. Slowly we became interested in why so few choose … to ride in a country where it makes such absolute sense to do so.”
Bicycle Portraits: What Do Bikes Say About A Culture?")
Jors Moentsabato: “It helps me a lot, this bicycle of mine. There where I go, I ride my bike. I bought this bike at the shop where they sell old stuff, I found it there.
Courtesy of Stan Engelbrecht
“Our initial interest was in maybe photographing a few commuters that ride beautiful hand-me-down racers as commuter bikes,” [photographer Stan] Engelbrecht writes via email. “But we soon found that very, very few South Africans actually commute by bicycle. Slowly we became interested in why so few choose … to ride in a country where it makes such absolute sense to do so.”
