Cycling, people who cannot reach the distance

In Beijing, more and more people are starting to ride bicycles. Cycling brings them health, joy, staying away from mobile phones, new friends, and thinking about how to face uncertainty.

Wen ｜ Wang Shuangxing Lu Yan

Edit ｜ Huai Yang

Figure ｜ Interviewees provided (except for special labels)

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In May, due to the prevention and control of the epidemic, Feng Qi's company began to work at home. He found that after dinner, he had his own hours. I wanted to go out, but "I was closed everywhere, and the restaurants and places were closed. I couldn't go anywhere." Some colleagues suggested that they went out to ride a bike.

It was Feng Qi's first ride on a bicycle. With a bicycle sharing, he rode south from the North Fifth Ring Road to Chaoyang Park. After meeting with his colleagues, he rode west to the Drum Tower all the way. In May, Beijing suddenly felt like the Spring Festival -there were very few cars on the road. Feng Qi kicked the car quickly and arrived at the destination with the wind.

After riding nearly 30 kilometers, Feng Qi and colleagues arrived at Shichahai. That night, he watched the lake for a long time.

After this day, Feng Qi and his colleagues placed a bicycle. Colleague Chu Xiao was first bought. The car shop was a secret door. A bunch of buyers crowded there, waiting for the boss to find the car in the flashlight. The price rose, and Chu Xiao bought a folding train at a price of about 600 yuan high. Feng Qi bought a "small cloth", Brompton, a folding bike with British ancestry, the price was as high as 134, and it took a month to get it. Today, he rides off work every day for 16 kilometers. He has completed the commute and achieves fitness.

The "2022 China Monitoring Monitoring Report" shows that in Beijing, the proportion of commutes of more than 60 minutes of one -way time reached 30 %, ranking first among 44 major cities across the country; the average one -way commuting was up to 48 minutes. It is also the longest of 44 cities.

But riding commute brings a new feeling to Feng Qi: If the car and the subway are delivered to the machine completely, the bicycle makes the process specific. "The road is no longer boring, the destination looks cute and precious On the road on the road, it was not a waste. "On the day of the partial termination of Beijing, he rode to Ossen for the first time, lay on the grass, and rode home with rain. He loves riding more and more, and he likes to stay outside.

Feng Qi's return journey to the Thirteen Tomb Reservoir

From the perspective of cyclists, Beijing is a city suitable for cycling. In the weather, there are not so many rain in Beijing in summer, and it is not too humid and hot; it is not too cold in winter, and the spontaneous heat ride service is enough to cope with it; in the autumn, you can also see red maple leaves and golden ginkgo. More importantly, the bicycle lanes here are clear and there are rich enough cycling routes.

Xionghua is the Pannisirin band Besiand, and is also a cycling enthusiast. After 20 years of cycling, he basically traveled Beijing's route. If you want to ride the road in the urban area, Chang'an Street is a good choice, large straight line, lane wide enough; National Highway 109 is a classic route of Beijing -Western riding. Always recommend it to friends who are just getting started. If you want to be more difficult, you can ride to Jietai Temple and Miaofeng Mountain. To be more difficult, you can go to Lingshan. It is steep. The mountain is hundreds of meters above sea level. It becomes more than 2,000 meters at the top of the mountain.

If friends from other places come to Beijing, Xionghua will recommend the cycling route close to the central axis of Beijing. Starting from Dongjiaomin Lane, all the way north to Ossen, passing through the hutong of the Drum Tower, passing the western building in the embassy area, and then to Beijing and other Beijing Modern landmark buildings can see the urban culture of Beijing from ancient times to the present.

Xionghua was born in 1990. Beijing is in Haidian. In junior high school, he began to play climbing and small wheels, taking the cool youth route. By high school, these can no longer meet the requirements of a adolescent boy. He holds hundreds of pocket money and wants to assemble a car for himself. A friend opened a studio and poured a bicycle accessory. The yard "I can't wait for the garbage to dump". Xionghua turned out of the 1990s steel frame. At that time, there were aluminum alloy frames on the market. It was very thick. The steel frame looked slender and beautiful. He was immediately attracted. It spent 80 yuan, bought this old steel frame, bought wheels and handles, and had his own first. An assembly car.

He began to enjoy the joy of assembly. Until now, he hasn't bought the vehicle in the store. The car is installed by his parts and parts. The purple highway car is motionless. Make some high -intensity riding; red is handmade frame, single -speed, suitable for cities; the other is a mountain car, a mountain frame in 1998, accompanied by bear flower adventure, outing and camping. "If you ride that car, you feel that it feels different from the aluminum alloy frame that is popular at the time or the current carbon fiber frame, just like you feel like driving a master car on the road."

His home was collected in 1920 cabinets, shoes worn in the Rodman Bulls Finals in 1996, and instruments of the 1950s and 1960s. It is not necessarily expensive, but "it seems that it does not belong to this era", "Everyday is a computer, mobile phone, and social media. Difficulty. You can enjoy a short quietness. "

Bicycles have become the daily expression of the life of the bear flower -not showing off. Xionghua said that he had seen someone's "special fever" parts for his small cloth, such as a bearing of more than 10,000 yuan, "in fact, it doesn't match." There are also people who match very classic cars with very modern kits. Although it looks uncoordinated, it looks most important. Today, it is nothing new to spend more than 100,000 yuan to buy a bicycle. After playing for 20 years, Xionghua felt that it was meaningless to "roll and roll". He went to class in a sports company and played a world -class competition in Guangxi. He found that except for very top -level drivers, there will be some custom cars or parts for specialized races. Most drivers are actually the same as the cars that ordinary people can buy. The screws of some drivers are rusted, and they did not say to change it. "

Seeing that Xionghua had been with the team, the staff who sent the supply also gave Xionghua a supplier of a driver and opened it. Inside it was the hotel's rice ball and a banana -nothing special.

This may be a way to ride a real way: it is not a trend, it is one of the ways to find your own speed.

Xionghua rides on the Qinghai Lake section 109

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Speaking of the joy of riding in Beijing, the riders will also talk about it. Once they go on the road, there will always be such uncomfortable. A manhole cover will suddenly appear in the center of the road.

Liu Yizong said that our urban planning is guided by a car. In Beijing, a super city with more than 21 million permanent population, the ownership of cars has continued to rise, from 5.64 million vehicles in 2017 to 6.084 million in 2018, and by 2020 to 6.57 million units. They appear on the road at different times, seize the roads of bicycles at different times, or turn them into their own parking lots.

Liu Yizong is the director of the China Sustainable Urban Project of the World Resources Research Institute. He has always paid attention to urban planning and traffic issues. He lives near the city of Chaoyang. Beginning in 2017, he rode a shared bicycle every day to work in Dongzhimen. It takes about half an hour to 8.8 kilometers away. He bought a car in 2008, but traveling within 10 kilometers in the urban area, he usually chose to ride a bike. He does not have to worry about traffic jams. However, there will always be tiny inconvenience on the riding road. For example, when crossing the intersection, the rider who goes straight is often "card" by the car. On the way to work at Liu Yizong, the intersection of Changhong Bridge is the most likely to be "stuck" because there are many ride on the right, and sometimes you have to wait for two traffic lights to pass.

With his understanding of the "complete street" and the personal experience of riding himself, Liu Yizong has been advocating to establish a more friendly cycling facility to attract more people to use the bicycle system.

What kind of bicycle system is more friendly? Liu Yizong gave several cases.

For example, Danish Copenhagen, known as the "Capital of Bicycles,", Although the latitude is very high and the winter is cold, many people still use bicycles to commute, because the details that may encounter in the cycling are considered: there are specialized on the bridge on the bridge. The bicycle lane is easy to push up; the trash can on the roadside is inclined, and the trash can be easily thrown during the cycling process; there are special platform settings at the intersection. You do not need to get off when you wait for the traffic lights. Immediately effort; the bicycle lane also has a special "green wave". According to the riding speed, as long as you catch up with this series of green lights during cycling, there is no need to wait for the red light at the next intersection. Under these details, Copenhagen people can ride quickly because people have enough sense of security.

For example, Singapore stipulates that all star -level office buildings must provide a washroom, you can take a bath after cycling, and it can also be convenient to replace the cycling clothes into daily dress. In addition, after the washing room must be after the attendance machine, "this means that in the legal sense, your bathing time is paid," Liu Yizong said. These subtle things are encouraged to use bicycles.

In recent years, Beijing has become more friendly to bicycles. Some of the non -hybrid lanes of the second ring rings add a pattern of "riders and cars", suggesting that bicycles are preferred. In 2020, 3,200 kilometers of bicycle lanes have been built in the Fifth Ring Road in Beijing. Prior to, Beijing also built the first bicycle -specific road to connect to Longguan and land. The total length is 6.5 kilometers. It is called a bicycle high -speed. Tong it to commute, faster than cars and subways.

Beijing's bicycle -specific road map source Visual China

Liu Yizong is also promoting the construction of the city's bicycle lane. He opposed the construction of a sports bicycle lane that specializes in the construction of a sports on the surroundings of the city and the suburbs. He believes that judging whether it is "friendly bicycle", and more valued whether the bicycle lane can help people complete the commuting. Essence

In May 2018, he was invited by the Beijing CBD Management Committee, and he participated in the reconstruction of the CBD to provide convenience concepts to the bicycle in many details: paving the tree pond with iron nets, and creating more parking of bicycles to create more parking of bicycles to create more Space; make the bicycle lane color shop more conspicuous; in order to prevent motor vehicles from invading the bicycle lane, many cameras are installed. Once a motor vehicle is parked to the top, the nearby signs will be prompting The station has become a small island. The bicycle lane is behind the island. The flow of buses and buses from buses and bicycles will not affect each other. In "The Great Street", the author Alan B. Jacobus wrote: The best streets can stimulate everyone's participation, people will stop and chat or just wait and see on the street.

This is in line with Liu Yizong's philosophy, and bicycles can make people better participate in the streets. The car -oriented urban planning is unsustainable. The city should be restored to the public, and the public space should be restored to the "people" so that everyone is willing to enjoy the street, can ride through, or stop at will. This can be stopped at will. It is more livable and more people -oriented urban life.

CBD street view after Liu Yizong's transformation

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In addition to bringing health and convenience, the joy of passing through the streets, for some people, it also brings unexpected gains -such as friends.

This year is the fifth year of the happy riding. After graduating from college, she went to work in Beijing. After cycling, she first entered a large group of nearly 500 people. Several people were familiar with and slowly, everyone pulled the small group of 350 people; for a long time, "hatching" became three or five people. Smaller groups, which gave her a stable small circle.

Among the several people, there are college students who are still studying, there are not many programmers, and there are also big customer managers who want to make money to support their families. Everyone in the bones is similar, simple and sincere; and because of common hobbies, friendship seems more closely. It is said that for a while, his home was like a car shop. A group of people rode back, hungry, tired, took the car to her house, and then took a taxi back. At most, there are more than ten cars in the house.

During the cycling, people are more likely to establish a connection to "revolutionary friendship". Some people have received from others when the supply is insufficient. Some people have been pulled when they are injured. Encouragement. In the past few years, there are many young people who have left Beijing and returned to their hometown. Many of her classmates are in Chengdu. Decided to stay in Beijing because the friends who rode together were here.

Because of riding a bicycle, Xionghua met a lot of friends, from all walks of life, some people who do music, some open bars, some car media, and office workers from nine to five. The boys who recently rode together were met when they bought the frame. When Xionghua went to "pick up the goods", she talked for a long time at the door of the other's house. After leaving, I simply entered the bicycle industry and now do research and development in a bicycle brand.

"In this era, friends will be more fast. Except for some small or classmates, few friends who have graduated after graduation can last for more than two years to maintain a very close relationship." Xionghua said. But now, because the friend does not need to take a shift, sometimes he will come to Xionghua here in the morning. The two have each other's affairs of the computer, and they have become really tacit friends.

Documentary director Dai Xianjing has participated in the cycling of the Bear Flower Organization. For her, cycling is a deep social. In the past two years, Dai Xianjing has also been in contact and understanding in those activities that have become more and more popular in the middle -class circle, but in comparison, the social experience brought by cycling is more attractive. The flying plate is younger, the social attributes of climbing are not so strong, and the camping is more like a lifestyle. It "escapes the city" with acquaintances. Only cycling can have longer and richer space for communication. A few hours of riding a bus, at least choose "the person who can talk on the big side" together. Over time, there will be many similarities in the screening people.

When entering the mountains, there will always be two men riding at the forefront and the end. Even if someone rides slowly, everyone will still wait. Because the expectations of cycling are also similar: the important thing is not the racing, but to enjoy the fun with friends on the road.

The store under the Tanzhang Temple almost becomes a collection of riders. The elder sister who is doing business is enthusiastic and understands the car. As more and more people are riding, the locals in Beijing will bring the bubble insulation box to the mountain. Stalls for the rest of the riders, selling Coke and Sprite. There is no signal on the mountain. Business exchanges can only rely on some ancient virtues, such as integrity -riders took water, took the QR code of the vendor, and then rode down the mountain. When there is a signal, scan the code and pay.

Writer Hailin Jiro wrote in the book "The taste of the Bicycle" that in the era of degradation, bicycles are like a wake -up tea; in the virtual space of the Internet, the bicycle finds the feelings of down -to -earth. It is synonymous with soberness, autonomy, responsibility and harmonious life.

Through cycling, these young people are building a more organic and wider life.

The cyclists are waiting at the intersection waiting for the traffic lights.

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There are also less beautiful things about cycling.

At the end of June, Dai Xianjing was hit by a retrograde electric car while riding a bicycle. She fell to the ground and pressed on her body. I was taken to the hospital for examination. Fortunately, it was just a flesh injury. Chen Yi worked in a law firm. He has fell in love with cycling since middle school. Last summer, he built a WeChat group of riding friends. Now there are more than 400 people in the group. He has heard a lot of accidents in the ride. Bicycles hit a car and electric vehicles hit a bicycle. Every summer and autumn, Beijing rides the most and the accident occurs. There was a collision last year, and his head was stuck on the stone, and he died unfortunately. Not long ago, there was a riders and the retrograde electric vehicle hit together. Celastus and leg bone, "All happened in the past year."

Liu Yizong said that in China, the relatively friendly cities for cycling are Beijing and Shanghai. Beijing is "good". Most roads are equipped with bicycle lanes, but there are insufficient management. The phenomenon of cars on the bicycle lane can be seen everywhere. He called for the establishment of a "protected bicycle lane", such as making color shops for bicycle lanes to make it clearer and more conscious, and reminds motor vehicles to stay away; The isolation zone prevent the bicycle from hitting the sudden opening of the motor car door.

I feel that the recent riding boom has made more novices on the way. They have not yet known about riding, safety, and even themselves. Someone ridiculed on the Internet, "The end of the cycling is the cargo Lala" -the novice joined the cycling, but because of injuries or lack of physical strength, he could only rely on the cargo Lala to take the car home. But this is actually the lightest. I have seen many more painful examples. Some people do not wear helmets on their heads, do not wear knee -knee on their legs, and do not have electrolytes and energy glue in the bag. Entering the hospital; some people's control levels were not enough, but they were too pursuing speed, and rushed to the mountain when they went downhill; others did not pay attention to the weather in advance, failed to replenish water in time, and died of accidental warm stroke ...

Wang Le also has the same feeling. He was a bicycle professional athlete, graduated from Beijing Sports University Bicycle Sports Training, and started to work in children's bicycle training after retirement. He is a professional coach. Ten years ago, when Wang Le was a professional athlete, bicycles were still a relatively niche movement, but now it is more and more popular among ordinary people. Many people buy cars and cycles themselves and are willing Follow professional coaches to learn riding.

"This sport has developed very quickly, but the supporting facilities can not keep up so quickly." Wang Le said. The lack of supporting facilities is not only Liu Jianzong said, our road planning is still a certain distance from the real "cycling friendly city". Another manifestation is that there are very few professional coaches. In addition to the same retired athletes as him, In addition, some coaches themselves themselves are "half -way monks."

Hu Lixin, who is also a cycling coach, said that there are fewer domestic bicycle parks in China, and there are not many top public events. In terms of culture and concepts, this movement and industry also face many prejudices. As coaches, he has heard of it, can he not hear that he has heard of it, can’t he hear that he has heard of it? Less sound: Who can't ride a bike? What tricks can you ride a bike?

But as far as Wang Le's observation, 70 % of the people's posture is wrong. For example, many people's steps are not right. Stepping on the forefoot should be used to step on the foot instead of the foot or heel; there are some. People will raise the rod very high, and when stepping on, they will straighten their knees. Still damage to the knee. Bicycles are also divided into size. You need to choose a car that suits you according to a person's height, wingspan, and leg length, but this requires professional guidance.

"China is a big bicycle country, but not a bicycle power. Many people will ride a bike, but the culture of bicycles starts very late." Wang Le said. If you really understand the bicycle, there is still a long way to go.

The joy is in the cycling

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In mid -June, a clustered epidemic in the "Paradise Supermarket" bar was forced to "quietly". The community where Chu Xiao's family was located was not far from Sanlitun, and it also experienced four days of control. After unblocking, she immediately rode the car out. The road was amazing, pedestrians, takeaways, and electric vehicles almost disappeared. Chu Xiao rode smoothly, but his heart was uncomfortable. The uncertainty of life has increased, and riding into a few things that can bring a sense of control and authenticity.

Rider has experience through riding to fight against themselves. A few years ago, the joy of ninety pounds a few years ago. At the beginning of the ride, she was "panting like a horse", but slowly, "It's faster today", "I can ride a hundred kilometers today." Established in this process. The road was full of accidents, suddenly the tire burst, the sky was almost dark, and the support could not be found. What should I do? What should I do if I have no way to find? The joy is that there is no better way to encounter problems and solve problems.

The coach Hu Lixin rode the car for nearly two decades, and he also felt the same. Go out of the bicycle on a hot day, "the skin is tanned", and it is also riding in the winter. People continue to ride.

There are indeed more and more people in Beijing. In social media, cycling is regarded as a new trend and fashion. Chu Xiao and Feng Qi talked about this topic on a working day afternoon. Their consensus is that these labels posted to cycling are more romantic and high. In Chu Xiao's words, "If life is normal, you can go to dinner, you can go to the park, go to the shopping mall, and go to the outside world. There will not be so many people who want to ride a bicycle. "

However, after the system that was originally stable, people could only be forced to make some attempts, and then discovered some fun passively. "Under the epidemic, there is nothing to control, and everything in life is frame by this thing to die. Dead, you have no choice, you are forced to do these things, and you are forced to happen. "After all, bicycles can take people to a small piece of" outside the code ". When riding a bike, no one Check the health code, no one looks at the negative proof of nucleic acid, and barely has a little autonomy and a little freedom.

In their opinion, they do not want individual gains and feelings to blur the structural dilemma; when they do not change more things, they can only use them to obtain a little tiny healing, competing and guarding.

This is the feelings of these riders: while enjoying the cycling, they want to go further.

(The head map is Dai Xianjing and friends riding. In the text, Feng Qi, Chu Xiao, and Chen Yi are pseudonym.)

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