In June 2016, 400 bikers from all over the country gathered on the Habitat working site in Bacău. Our mission was to accomplish in just one day: 40 foundations for 40 houses destined for poor people. We had to: make the structures/pillars out of reinforced steel, create the cement mix, to use the wheelbarrow for transport and afterward fill in the foundation’s ditches.

We keep smiling now when we remember the facial expressions from the people in Habitat and the ones of the beneficiaries. There was an obvious mistrust in those grimly bold tattooed bikers, who are riding their loud and aggressive bikes, that they will actually build a house. We are accustomed to this kind of mistrust and reactions, but we kept on smiling thinking that by the end of the day the people will utterly discover that we’re absolutely normal people, with families, kids, jobs, huge hearts and united by the same passion: the motorbike. Of course, we didn’t rest until we finished everything we set our minds to. We worked hard at 33 degrees Celsius. At the end of the day, all the 40 foundations were finished. It was not the burning sun nor was the transportation of tens of wheelbarrows with cement that remained in our memories from that trip in Bacău, but the reactions that the beneficiaries of those homes had, their joy and the admiration in their eyes, the hugs, and sincere thankful words.

The collective effort was worth it, it’s what made us want to continue doing it in the following years.