By Martyn Herman LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The cut-throat world of professional cycling has produced its fair share of villains and is still saddled with cynicism but even its harshest critics may struggle to sneer when Doug Ryder says "Bicycles Change Lives". The organisation is also the partner and inspiration behind the MTN-Qhubeka professional team that, in July, will become the first African-based outfit ever to start the Tour de France. He was speaking a day after admitting how he was left "hardly able to breathe" when news emerged that MTN-Qhubeka had been granted a wildcard to compete in cycling's blue riband event. Of the 20-odd pro riders on the books of Africa's largest cycling team, about half of them are Africans, and for a few, the Qhubeka (the Xhosa word meaning move forward) slogan is apt. More...