The perils of crashing are obvious, but being trapped behind a crash when the road is blocked with bodies and bikes is equally perturbing.
There are mules and camels to ride and mountain bikes to rent, but I couldn't resist trying the nine-hole "cross country" golf course, which runs along a nearby rocky riverbed and is more akin to crazy golf.
There's even a shed for storing bikes.
The idea is that each employee, once trained, can train and employ five or six others, meaning the bikes can be produced on a small scale all over Ghana.
Dapaah and her co-founders have trained more than 35 people to make the bikes and are establishing two new workshops outside Kumasi, in the Brong Ahafo region, which will employ around 50 more youths.
There's no pool but the coast can be reached on the hotel's free bikes.
For family activities, you could hire bikes or ride horses through the unspoilt landscape.
The app would then function as both journey planner and universal payment platform, knitting everything from driverless cars and nimble little buses to shared bikes and ferries into a single, supple mesh of mobility.
Most of these bikes originate from India, and while their lone gear isn't exactly ideal for Kathmandu's gradients, they come cheap and are built like workhorses.
Since then, Ferry company CalMac (calmac.co.uk) has scrapped all charges for bikes and reduced its fares, making the trip even cheaper.
Bariloche, on the banks of the immense Nahuel Huapi lake, is a major town, and a base for trekking and mountain biking; Apurabici rents bikes for £15 a day and organises half-day guided rides along mountain trails for £50pp.
