Bicycles and movies

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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

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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.

Cargo bikes history

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Cargo bikes are a type of bicycles with special frame, larger than a normal bike, to carry persons, pets and objects. We see them more this year than the previous one. They are folk from year to year. What is its history?

They appeared before the actual bicycles in England back in 1877. It was when James Stanley conceived a tricycle with a platform in order to transport people and goods. The very one of the cargo bike was a machine less attractive with an iron frame, without gears and a small surface to carry loads. However, the improvement in wheels, the larger platform and improvement techniques and even technologies have made them to be more suitable to farmers, craftspeople, postpeople, and riders among others. Improvement continued and cargo bikes were looked from mundane machines to the present beautiful, good-looking ones.

Sara Dykman

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Every year, the Monarch Butterfly, Danaus Plexippus, goes from the USA to Mexico in a massive migration of about 5,000 kilometers. Millions of this butterfly start it with the unique help of their instinct. Sara Dykman accompanied them by pedaling for nine months in which she learned a lot about this insect and came across interesting people. As a result, she wrote the book Bicycling with Butterflies which is plenty of data and rigor as well as humor and lyricism.

In reality, the Monarch Butterfly spends Winter in the Oyamel forests in Michoacan, Mexico and flies to the USA and Canada. When the cold of Autumn arrives, they go back to Mexico. Four generations are needed to complete the migration and lay their eggs on the milkweed plant. Thus, the butterflies which return to Mexico are the great-granddaughter of the ones which initiated the migration.

Sara studied the specie and discovered that this butterfly travels about one hundred kilometers a day. This figure is the preferred one to ride in a day for Sara. She learned a lot about people and butterflies since she claims that we are connected to nature and the force of unity: A butterfly weights 0.5 grams, but if millions perch on a branch, they can break it.