
One Billion Bicycles Global Film Series: Beijing #7
Life in the fun lane!
Life in the fun lane!

One Billion Bicycles Global Film Series: Beijing #7

One Billion Bicycles Global Film Series: Beijing #6

Africa’s warm heart, Malawi, is the perfect place to start a bicycle holiday!
Malawi’s reputation as ‘the warm heart of Africa’ is fully justified by its people. Cycling along its roads you’ll meet them in their hundreds; on the way to market, to work, to the fields or to school. Many, many people cycle and it’s quite rare you’ll be alone. And always you’ll be greeted in the most friendly manner – Malawians (particularly in the North) generally have very good English.
Stopping off at water pumps or roadside restaurants (both which feature very regularly along all roads) you’ll get into conversations with students,
Barcelona has the world’s most popular city bike share, but it seems that while the citizens love it, Spain’s conservative government wants it gone. So who wins this battle of the bicycle?
This video is part of a global series of films documenting the stories of the world’s One Billion Bicycles, filmed and edited by independent filmmakers Bojun Bjorkman-Chiswell and Sarah Cowhey.
Created by the filmmakers to unearth the stories of the world’s bicycles and its importance to humanity, the film series journeys across 5 continents, 20 countries and over 140 interviews with high-powered ambassadors in Bejing through to a man in a bicycle wheelchair in the dusty streets of Mozambique.
When you’re a bicycle babe fresh food, not greasy fossil fuels, becomes the flavour of the day without you even trying.
Driving a car means you find yourself, through no choice of your own, surrounded by junky snacks, sugary drinks with few healthy eating options.
Radio ads set a low-brow food tone, fast food drive-throughs line your route home and petrol-station snack bars offer the weary traffic-drunk traveler a boggling array of sugar hits to get you home.
The bicycle babe rarely encounters dirty-food diversions, and on-route we end up taking peach-stops at fruit stalls in a no parking zone,
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