Two-time overall winner of the Tour de Lunsar. Sierra Leone national team. An all-round road cyclist who won his country's biggest race twice, then took it to the world championships, while working as a bicycle mechanic in Dubai.
Riding was simply the cheapest way to get to senior secondary school and back. Three years later Ibrahim entered the school sports meet, won, and was sent to race the biggest event in his home town.
Ibrahim is a Level 3 qualified bicycle mechanic working in Dubai. He trains before and after shifts. He does not only compete on bicycles, he works professionally on them.
For an equipment brand that is a rare thing. He is not an athlete who can wear a logo. He is a racing cyclist who can run your product across three continents and then tell you, in the language your engineers use, exactly what it did.
The route so far
Sierra Leone to the world
Scroll the line. Confirmed starts only, and Montreal is the next mark on it.
Beyond the finish line
The road should not end with him
Where you start should not decide where you finish.
Cycling is expensive. Bikes, components, tyres, coaching, race entries, passports, flights. Ibrahim has had to find every one of those for himself, and he knows which of them stop a career before it starts. For many riders in Africa the gap between ability and international competition is not talent. It is access. His ambition is to use his racing, his technical knowledge and future partnerships to widen that opportunity for the riders coming behind him.
Three international races in six weeks, delivered by a rider who has already won his country's biggest race twice.
Partnership opportunities exist across season support, international competition, equipment, travel, performance, content and community. Financial, equipment, travel or service based.
The bicycle was not supposed to become a career. It was simply a cheaper way to get to school.
Fourteen years later it has produced two overall wins at the biggest race in Sierra Leone, a national jersey, a trade, and a start ramp at the world championships. This is how that happened, in ten chapters.
Tour de Lunsar
Sierra LeoneTrack, Glasgow
Beyond the finish line
The road should not end with him
The goal is not simply to see how far one rider from Sierra Leone can go. It is to make the road easier for the riders coming behind him.
Cycling is an expensive sport. A talented young rider needs a bicycle that works, components, tyres, maintenance, coaching, nutrition, a way of getting to races, entry fees, a passport, a visa, flights, somewhere to stay. Ibrahim has had to find every one of those things for himself, and he knows exactly which of them stop a career before it starts.
Ibrahim's ambition extends beyond his own racing career. Having experienced first hand the financial, equipment and access barriers that can prevent talented riders from progressing, he wants to use his racing, his technical knowledge and future partnerships to widen opportunity for young cyclists in Sierra Leone and across Africa. If and when that becomes structured, it will take shape under his own initiative.
The Unstoppable Project · A future initiative by Ibrahim Jalloh
Future focus
Ride
Riding with junior riders and supporting youth events at home.
Future focus
Learn
Maintenance and race preparation taught by a working mechanic.
Future focus
Equip
Getting usable bicycles and components into the hands of riders who need them.
Future focus
Access
Helping exceptional riders reach training and competition they could not otherwise get to.
These four are a stated direction of travel, not existing programmes. The Unstoppable Project is not yet funded, constituted or operating, nothing here is presented as a charity, and nothing is being solicited for it. This section will be rewritten in the past tense, with dates and photographs, once activity is documented.
Still being written
Next
A professional pathway. A Sierra Leonean rider on a start list people already read. And a road into the sport for riders in Lunsar who currently share one bicycle between four of them.
All-round road cyclist. Road, stage racing, criterium, time trial and track. Everything below is on the record, with field sizes where they are published and links to the official result where one exists.
● Next start
2026 programme
Three starts, six weeks
Confirmed means an accepted entry. Invited means an organising committee invitation received. Planned means intended but not yet entered. The three are never presented as equivalent.
The record
Full race record
Every start. Every result. The progression in full.
Win Podium Position in fieldDashed bar: field size not published
Results are listed as they appear in official race records and Ibrahim's own competition record. Where a field size has not been published, the position is shown alone rather than estimated. Results awaiting independent confirmation are held off this page until they are confirmed.
Road racing, UAE
The journey
Journal
Short entries from the road, the workshop and home. Three strands: the journey, the machine, and the riders coming behind him.
The Road
Race and travel diary. Where he is, what happened, what it took to get there.
Parts
Short technical pieces from a working mechanic. What he checks, what riders miss.
The Next Rider
Home, junior riders, and what access actually looks like in Sierra Leone.
Get the next one first
Race updates and journal entries by email, rather than hoping an algorithm shows you.
Partner with a rider who has won his country's biggest race twice, raced a world championship, and works inside the sport as a qualified mechanic. This is a commercial relationship, not a donation.
Tour de Lunsar, overall winner
Who
Ibrahim Jalloh. Sierra Leone national team cyclist, two-time Tour de Lunsar overall winner, all-round road racer based and working in Dubai.
What
His international racing programme and his progression through it.
Why him
A real story, national representation, technical credibility, and a Sierra Leone to UAE footprint that few athletes have.
What you get
Association, content, product access, activations and storytelling. Agreed in writing before anything is announced.
The proposition
Performance, craft, purpose
Performance
A two-time winner of his country's biggest race who now represents Sierra Leone internationally across road, stage racing, criterium, time trial and track. Results on the public record, trajectory going one way.
Craft
A Level 3 qualified bicycle mechanic. Not the centre of the proposition, but what makes the athlete unusually interesting to an equipment brand: product feedback and technical content a marketing team cannot manufacture.
Purpose
An ambition to turn his own progress into access for young riders in Sierra Leone and across Africa.
Sierra Leone x UAE
Sierra Leonean, representing Sierra Leone, based and working in Dubai, racing internationally. Useful to a UAE business with African ambitions, and to an African business seeking international visibility.
Purpose
Back one rider. Help open the road for others.
Ibrahim's ambition extends beyond his own racing career. As his platform grows he wants to create more access to cycling knowledge, equipment and opportunity for young riders in Sierra Leone and across Africa.
Junior riders, Sierra Leone
Performance partnership
Support Ibrahim's racing programme.
Purpose partnership
Support community activity at home.
Integrated partnership
Do both. Race equipment for Ibrahim and junior bikes for Sierra Leone. Race travel for him and a flight for a promising rider.
Athlete funding and community funding are accounted for and reported separately. They are never blended.
Categories
Five ways in
01 / Season partner
Named association across the full international programme.
The Tour de Lunsar is not a UCI-registered race, so it does not appear on ProCyclingStats. Results are held by the organiser, Lunsar Cycling Team. UCI and continental results are on the ProCyclingStats page linked above.
For journalists
Story angles
Channels
Where to find him
The Instagram account was previously @ibrahimcyclinglife and was renamed to @ibrahimtrusttheprocess. Both refer to the same account. Please use the current handle.
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