Shann said, "The objective of this ride is to spread the primary message about living a healthy lifestyle and secondly to tell the world that there is a beautiful, colourful and wonderful piece of the land the abode of clouds Meghalaya".
Fanwar, a native of Sohra in Meghalaya moved to West Indies as a young child with his parent and pursued his schooling there and college in the US and than settled there.He is an enthusiast cyclist, particularly after his recovery from an accident which seriously affected his spinal column.In recent years that he had visited the Khasi and Jaintia Hills, he had initiated and carried out the cycle rides - which were termed Bike-a-Thons- with friends and family members, on three occasions.