Tying loose ends

We want to cross Europe for 6000 kilometers in a trip of 4 months, crossing nine countries, which will allow us to know on first-hand how is cycling experienced in our neighbouring countries.

During these four months of cycling journey, three components of Impulsion Humana will travel carrying themselves all the equipment, installing their encampments, preparing the necessary foods and managing their waste, without any supporting vehicle; with just a team in the base that will be devoted to manage the incidences or requeriments that may arise.

Nine countries: Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, and finally Spain. In all of them, a quite different cycling reality is experienced, as compared with ours. There are policies favouring biking, with sufficient infrastructures and civic consciousness that allow people to circulate with total safety in the most important cities.

All along the journey, we’ll contact with all the bike associations of the most important cities in order to interchange our experiences relative to the bike world.

We want to experience and live the bike in our european scene, and to get ideas which can serve to create new services helping promote this fantastic gadget.

In adittion, we´ll film everything we consider relevant, compiling information about all the travel’s details, without stopping telling you how is all happening, and, above all, telling you where we are at every moment. We want to publish, upon our return, a documentary containing all this experience, which our first sponsors from Malevolo will help us publish. ([www.malevolo.com])

WHAT WE WILL USE THE MONEY TO

On one hand, we have calculated, based on the experiences of other bike voyagers, who have gone over large distances, an average of 20 €/day for overnighting and maintenance. Altough we may carry a tent, in many countries, included Spain, free camping is forbidden, whereby we´ll have to pay for camping or take a shower in some lodging or refuge.

Moreover, we have to travel with our bicycles to the starting point, that is to say, North Cape, for which we have planned to fly to Oslo, the capital of Norway, and then, to go over the 2000 kilometer distance between this city and the starting point in a hire van. After having considered the possible options, this is the most inexpesive.

In such a long trip, everything could happen, so it is necessary to contract an accident insurance, which also may cover potential losses or thefts.

Finally, a part of the money will be spent in commissions and taxes, and also in the acquisition of the gifts that we offer you in every contribution.

WHAT WE OFFER YOU IN RETURN

A pair of made in limited edition serigraphs by Álvaro P-ff. Alvaro is one of the most renowned poster within the music industry, having worked with artists such as Los Coronas, Fountains of Wayne Cracker, Sex Museum, Of Montreal, Matthew Sweet... as well as a radical bike rider. With these two, serigraphs in limited edition of fifty units, begin a series of posters dedicated to the bike and his acolytes ride or die!

Saddlebags hand-made by "Las alforjas de mi bici (Bags of my bike)" with 99% recycled materials. They are unique and exclusive models. They are made with recycled, waterproof tarps, with inside pocket, buckles to close covers, fixations of Velcro or hooks to hold to the cages to move, and with a practical handle to be able to transport them and also to be able to wear them as a bag.

Impulsión Humana silkscreened on 100% cotton t-shirt with logo exclusive, available in sizes from S to XL boy and girl S to L.

Share partner. Making Impulsión Humana partner not only enter part of an association dedicated to the promotion of the bicycle, contributing thus to bicycle to regain his space as means of transport in the cities, but you get discounts at shops arranged components and cycling clothing and clothes and sports shoes and also in all our activities; workshops of mechanics, technical classes, classes of urban cycling, outputs in natural environments, etc. And we also give you a t-shirt.

DVD documentary travel guide. The entire trip will be recorded, thanks to the loan of a GoPro camera and another reflex by Malévolo that also will help in the editing of the video. During the journey we will be collecting all the relevant information related to the world of cycling as a means of sustainable transport; differences between countries, infrastructure, and awareness for the cyclist, etc. Our meetings with associations of countries that let us contribute to collect testimonies of how bike part of Europe live.

TIMETABLE FOR THE TRIP

Since we will start from an elevated latitude, in the polar arctic circle, the weather imposes us a deadline for the departure: beyond the 15th of July we could encounter a weather too cold (we must remember that our objective is to promote the bicycle, we leave extreme challenges for more audacious voyagers). Since the trip to North Cape is long, we must depart to Norway the 12th of that month at the latest. If setbacks don´t arise, we would arrive to Tarifa about 4 months later.

The rewards will become effective after the end of the trip.