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Pickwick Bicycle Club Magazine Volume 14 No.2 October 2017 @32

Bicycles Built Based on Memory…..

Back in 2009 Italian designer Gianluca Gimini decided to ask friends and others to draw
a men’s bicycle from memory. It was a form of psychological testing to show how little we
know compared to what we think we know. Gianluca ended up with over 350 drawings from a
wide age group,and he created models from the drawings. Amazingly there were many that
had basic parts of the whole mechanism missing. A selection of the bizarre results are
shown here both as drawings ond models:

Pedals and a chain would make life easier

So that’s where they went