Lance Armstrong Joins Campaign for Cycle Safety

The most famous cyclist in history, Team Radioshack’s Lance Armstrong, has pleaded for an end to the carnage on Western Cape’s roads.

The seven-times-winner of the Tour de France hit the road himself on Wednesday, cycling from Cape Town to Somerset West, where he met Transport MEC Robin Carlisle, to personally endorse the Western Cape’s Safely Home campaign.

Lance Armstrong then set out with a group of cyclists who had paid for the honour of cycling with the legend, in aid of the JAG sports foundation charity, which is hosting the champion in South Africa.

After the brief meeting, Carlisle and Armstrong said in a joint statement they were “heartbroken” over the recent deaths on the Cape’s roads – including the lives of Frank Nel, Magda van Lill and Jan Eloff outside Oudtshoorn at dawn on Monday.

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