SB1 - Bicyclism - Research

The celebration of bicycles and all who ride them! 'an angular gathering of culture, tradition, practicality and beauty, powered by nothing more than your legs. And isn’t that a thing to celebrate? ' Boff Whalley 


Yorkshire legends 

• Beryl Burton
• Pettewr Robinson
• Brian Robinson
• Brian Trippett
•  Tom Simpson

http://www.livingnorth.com/yorkshire/people-places/yorkshire%E2%80%99s-golden-age-cycling

Ideas

• rayograph of old bike parts and human parts
• Collage of old images 
• Otley cycling club posters 
• Print onto news paper because they handed out new papers
• Holme moss - yorkshire difficult ride
• Look at some bike badger design
• Take inspiration from clothing pics

Older Image Collage

Quotes 

• I’ve got a bike
  You can ride it if you like
  It’s got a basket, a bell that rings
  And things to make it look good.
• Leeds - Live it, Love it. / Leeds - Live it, Love it, Leave it. 
• 'If you stop moving forward, you'll fall off' 
• 'Im a cyclist but also a pedestrian, car owner, lover' 

Interview 

And with the Bicyclism exhibition at Leeds City Museum what appeals to you about being on two wheels in Leeds?

I’ve always loved bicycles. But the Bicyclism exhibition seemed like a great opportunity to really dig around in that love and work out what the politics of cycling really are. Reading and learning about the suffragettes’ championing of the bicycle, listening to Leeds old folk talking about their bikes, knowing that the bicycle can represent a return to a simple, uncluttered, cheap, green way of moving around… that all went into the Bicyclism project.

Community Cycling 

I could photograph people on bicycles myself.