If that was unexpected to you, I'll take it you don't know France very well. People send stuff back to Africa all the time. I can't say anything about the bike

If that was unexpected to you, I'll take it you don't know France very well. People send stuff back to Africa all the time. I can't say anything about the bike (obviously), but I can tell you what an African friend of mine does for a living; in the middle of Europe. He sends stuff back to Africa. What he does is he rents out a container on a ship and then collects the payload in small units. I advertises in the African community (mainly Togo) and sells small amount of space on that container. People want to send stuff to their relatives on the continent all the time. I hope my mildly related anecdote was helpful.