What's so captivating about bikes? What is it that makes people young and old, from all walks of life across the globe, fascinated by them? Belgian blogger Pascal Mageren started writing about all the creative bike projects he could find, and five years later he's covered so many incredible designs that he's made a book about them.
"The original idea came 15 years ago, when I was a student and I used to travel by bike on holiday with my two brothers," says Pascal. "We travelled to the Netherlands, the south coast of England, Wales, Switzerland, we had two months in Iceland…"
It was on one of these trips that he had the idea of building a bicycle that all three of them could ride. The following year he and his brothers rode around Canada for five weeks, with a trailer pulled along behind to carry all their luggage.
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And on that trip to Canada, he noticed something funny: "People were looking at the bike like it was magic, like they were children, it was really a special moment for me. So I started research on why people were looking at the bike in such a special way." Thus, the Velosophe blog was born.
Life-changing moments
Pascal says that in the past five years he's come across so many incredible projects that he's regularly astonished by the huge impact that bikes can have on individuals. "When you know the story behind a special project, you begin to see bike culture emerging from it, and how bikes are really changing lives," he says.
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