SONG OF SISTER BIKE
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| Karel Čapek |
entitled as a paragraph of my book / guide Amsterdam published in several Unit labor costs from the first edition and then, unfortunately, from De Agostini.
The comments taken here as it is.
" Citizens of Amsterdam! Enough with the terror of middle-class motorized asphalt! Every day the masses offer new sacrifices to the last master that you are bent: the authorities. The carbon monoxide is stifling their incense, the sight of thousands of cars, roads and canals infected. The plan Provo bicycle us release from this monster. Provo launches white bicycle common property " August 1965, the White Bicycle Plan Provos
always came first. When there was a race he would one kilometer from the finish and when they were come to the vanguard was thrown on the pedals and triumphantly walked straight to the finish. For us guys had a riot. "Magnan " again Once he had won them all. The very first race for us was always just a "second" behind Magnan, who in normal days pedaled on a real race bike dressed as Fausto Coppi to win our enthusiastic " Forsa Magnan! "
why they are magnanimous with Amsterdam, Republic of the bike. If you think that "rural " is an adjective indicating a person or a product that comes from the country, then you belong to a culture in danger of extinction. " Campagnolo " is a marvel of technology that allows you to change "multiply" and to adapt the bike to the rider's intentions as well as all'assetto of the road. If you think that 2000 turbo, counter-rotating balance shafts, intercooler and boost-drive are the language of the future, your fate is sealed. Future generations will remember you with curiosity, nothing more. When to use the car in the city will be considered a terrorist act and the bike will rule supreme.
" Hubs ", " cranks," " cockerels " is the vocabulary to be learned as of now, the art of bicycle maintenance philosophy to be acquired. Going to Amsterdam is also this: a look at the future of cities. Or rather, the bet on them and our survival: If the cities of the future generations will be multiplied by 100, Turin, Naples, Bangkok, during peak hours. For Amsterdam the battle is not yet lost. Litter drive does not have clogged the existence of the city. The bicycle as a machine tries to resist the future, energy saving, body building . " And I step to the wide streets / and I talk to the tram and to machinery and speak to a cyclist grasshopper / I do not feel. / And I step through the narrow streets / and greeting well-known bicycle thieves " [ Andreus Hans, 1926-1977]. For Amsterdam the bike lives with the car, before it becomes the prerogative of the underdeveloped nations. It is not a single object, but a collective entity, a colony of beneficial bacteria that reproduces itself, leaving the street as infertile. Frames, saddles, handlebars, wheels, bike carcasses, fertilize the urban space, from which, at night, other bikes that are born and then got on with locals. Nobody is excluded: the young bank officers, senior engineers, professors, middle-aged butcher of the province, workers at the port, all democratically ride pretty much the same ramshackle machine two wheels, an extension of their bodies. All have the force of inertia which generates the ride, all are creatively themselves while in the pack. A frenzy of bicycles singing that brings fun and quiet.
"A bicycle is nothing, but that's something " reiterated Bicycle Plan Blank of Provos. Shooting dell'anarcociclismo form a critical mass against the dogma of modernity at all costs, against the myth of the exhibition of power. sequestrerà Police bikes white because, without a lock, "incitement to theft " !
" In the middle of the deserted road lay a bike with the front wheel continued to spin up - a dramatic effect, which later would not have failed to be brought to the fore in films about the Resistance [ Mulisha Harry, 1927 -].
Tourists amsterdamesi aware it will append to the other with their bikes, they will follow the developments and rituals:
• high handlebars and saddle if you would whiz Flying Dutch blondes like anime,
• packages and racks to the rear wheel if he wants to prove his intimacy with the city;
• riding long and strong if he will not immediately reveal his Italian automotive torpor ;
• ringing bright and determined, and sovereign contempt of obstacles - especially the intrusive "amsterdammerties" ubiquitous stone posts salacious subject to caricature;
• safe direction towards Leliesgracht 22 accessory for any bicycle; •
arduous search of the car park with two wheels and bracing in each urban ledge, as if the city bike and cling together.
Especially our Mediterranean tourist will soon realize that the Dutch do not have brakes visible cycles, are "fixed wheel . Braking that is pushing the pedals backwards. Operation that requires more coordination that downshifting in a Maserati in the corners. The solution for the "fixed wheel" is obvious: the bike is a total machine, not just for the weekend in the parks when it's sunny, but it is an efficient means of urban transport. Even when it is raining and an umbrella is convenient and sledging from the brake shoe rim wet. Even when you have to carry bulky items and only one hand is on the handlebar. Even with a child in front and one behind, even with her boyfriend and his aunt on the back seat. The cargo-bike have successfully solved the problem of transport of multiple childhood or pacchettatura cumbersome.
We are in the North and, as he said Glenn Gould, the North makes philosophers. Cold, rain do not affect this philosophy bicyclo. " and rain of autumn / walking along the summer, / is the unspoken wonder / long rumored that ( Guillaume van der Graft , 1920-1954]. Amsterdam and the rain did not contradict each other, they exchange moisture, the feelings are relax, the quiver in small gardens and bike Lonely finally knows the city. " Rorate coeli, Hallelujah" seem to sing wings and pinions. good opportunity for tourists to recite the last part of the non-tourist.
The city will be full of favors and prizes for the traveler that the caress on two wheels. It reveals how any other woman or man and Finally, the velocipede try the enjoyment of cycling in the urban future.
If you recognize the pedal power www.cycletours.nl then get on and drive along the bike paths of Holland and Amsterdam, but if you want the Iliad and the bike then you have turn to the Bible cycling: www.biciedintorni.org/bici_web/
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