Not Dutch but fantastic cycling.
The newest video from the trials phenom Danny Macaskill is one of the best yet in terms of filming and editing, and the riding is right just INSANE. From riding on top of trains, insane cable rides, and mind blowing drops!
maandag 22 augustus 2011
zondag 14 augustus 2011
Frank Lenz "The lost Cyclist"
I love history and bicycles. So what is better then a book over cycling history?
I found this book about Frank lenz, the Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance by David V. Herlihy
In the spring of 1892, Frank G. Lenz, a gallant young accountant and expert amateur photographer from a modest German-American family, set forth from his unhappy home in Pittsburgh to circle the globe atop a new 'safety' bicycle with inflatable tyres (essentially the modern machine). He brought along a large wooden camera, which used newly introduced film, and arranged to send regular reports to his sponsor, Outing magazine, effectively making him a harbinger of the great bicycle boom that was about to explode with stunning social and industrial repercussions.
Two years, fourteen thousand miles and many adventures later, after crossing the United States, Japan, China, Burma, India and Persia, just as he was about to enter Europe for the home stretch, Lenz vanished. His presumed murder in Asiatic Turkey.
I found this book about Frank lenz, the Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance by David V. Herlihy
In the spring of 1892, Frank G. Lenz, a gallant young accountant and expert amateur photographer from a modest German-American family, set forth from his unhappy home in Pittsburgh to circle the globe atop a new 'safety' bicycle with inflatable tyres (essentially the modern machine). He brought along a large wooden camera, which used newly introduced film, and arranged to send regular reports to his sponsor, Outing magazine, effectively making him a harbinger of the great bicycle boom that was about to explode with stunning social and industrial repercussions.
Two years, fourteen thousand miles and many adventures later, after crossing the United States, Japan, China, Burma, India and Persia, just as he was about to enter Europe for the home stretch, Lenz vanished. His presumed murder in Asiatic Turkey.
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