Monthly Archives: November 2024

A good bicycle parking

A good bicycle parking is one of the most important infrastructures to improve bike use. It is so upset looking for your bicycle and realizing that somebody has stolen it that bikers tend not to let it sleep on the street without proper padlocks. An improvement to traditional bicycle parking is a closed one as you can see in the picture bellow. In this case bikes are protected from thefts thanks to the strong, transparent, plastic cover which is accessed through a proper digit code on a console. This gadget is feed with the electricity that the solar panel provides. Other models allow users to access their bicycles by using a card with a chip. The fact of the plastic cover being transparent makes bike owners to check their bicycles without opening the bicycle parking, while bike thefts regret the existence of this infrastructure.

Bicycles and movies

Movies are one form of culture which can show bicycles under a story. Similarly as I wrote about songs and bikes here, here you have a list about movies and such inspirational vehicles:

  • 6 day bike rider (1934, comedy)
  • Bicycle thieves (1948, drama)
  • Cinq tulipe rouges (Five red tulips, 1949, murder mystery)
  • Skid kids (1953, drama)
  • Onna keirin-o (1956)
  • For a yellow jersey (1965, short)
  • A Sunday in hell (1977, documentary)
  • Breaking away (1979, comedy-drama)
  • BMX bandits (1983, adventure)
  • American flyers (1985, drama)
  • Rad (1986)
  • Quicksilver (1986)
  • The cyclist (1987, drama)
  • Jo jeeta wohi sikandar (1992. drama)
  • Il grande Fausto (1995)
  • El amateur (1999)
  • Road to Paris (1991, documentary)
  • Cyclomania (2001)
  • Le Vélo de Gishlain Lambert (2001, comedy)
  • Nasu: Summer in Andalusia (2003, anime)
  • Triplets of Beleville (2003, animated)
  • Cycling chronicles: Landscape the boy saw (2004)
  • Hell on wheels (2005, documentary)
  • Overcoming (2005, documentary)
  • The flying scotsman (2006, drama)
  • Island Etude (2006, drama)
  • Klunkerz: A film about mountain bikes (2006)
  • Clorophilla (2006)
  • The cycling genius is coming (2008)
  • Bicycle dreams (2009, documentary)
  • The birth of big air (2010, documentary)
  • Ride the divide (2010, documentary)
  • The last kilometer (2012, documentary)
  • Premium rush (2012, action film)
  • Pantani: The accidental death of a cyclist (2013, documentary)
  • The Armstrong lie (2013, documentary)
  • La grande boucle (2013, comedy)
  • Bicycle (2014, documentary)
  • Slaying the badger (2014, documentary)
  • Yowamushi Pedal Re:RIDE (2014, animated)
  • To the fore (2015, drama)
  • Yowamushi Pedal Re:ROAD (2015, animated)
  • Yowamushi Pedal Re: The movie (2015, animated)
  • The program (2015, drama)
  • Le ride (2016, documentary)
  • Blood road (2017, documentary)
  • Tour de pharmacy (2017, comedy)
  • The climb (2019, comedy)
  • LANCE (2020, documentary)
  • Tour de France: Unchained (2022, documentary)

Spezi

Bicycles for up to six people, machines for persons with special needs, tricycles, quadricycle, all kind of bike inventions and more… You can find these in your imagination and enjoy them in the Spezi (Internationale Spezialradmesse, in Germany) for a weekend in which you can see and try all of them. Thousand of people and one hundred or more firms show the bicycles diversity.

This event possesses a legendary reputation thanks to its avant-garde. Indeed, some solutions presented as a niche a decade ago have reached to the society nowadays. For instance, special bikes had an enthusiastic base and today more a more people see their potential in the daily life. Spezi goes a further step and gets off the beaten track, commercial, to jut out in curiosities and the dominating headlines.

Moreover, there are concerts, performances on unicycles and an area to camp and a closed zone to sleep if you prefer.