On Saturday I met up with Tiago from Ride’n'Desire to explore the city by bike. Tiago is a Portuguese expat, theater producer and bike tour operator in between gigs. His passion for bicycles is obvious, if only for the fact that he rides around on a genuine Chinese Flying Pigeon from the 50’s, which he recently bought and plans to restore.
We spent most of the afternoon and evening chatting up a storm about the Vélib’ program, cycling in Paris, life in general and enjoyed the numerous Cycle Chic encounters. Oh yes, this means we partly conducted our interview riding our bikes, just like I did when Marie visited Amsterdam. We were also fortunate to catch up on a cycling Parisienne to ask her about her bicycle helmet and how she feels about cycling in Paris. She was nice and very forthcoming, also for allowing us to take up her time. Lastly, riding home, I couldn’t help myself at Place de la Bastille.
I hope you don’t mind this video being almost 23 minutes long. I usually keep it under 10 minutes, but I made an exception as that Saturday offered too much for me to discard.
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This video was entirely recorded with a Nokia N95.
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