CYYYCLES - THE BOOK
Context: I started shooting bikes (and everything that goes aroud them) in 2014, in order to learn photography.
Everything was going well. I was fine with just posting these photos on this website and on social media.
Up to late 2023, almost ten years later, when I was involved in a very serious accident, which almost got me killed.
Read more about it here: the crash.
After spending three weeks in a coma, I quickly realised after waking up that if I had died, all my photos would have been lost forever as they only existed in digital form. I wasn't a huge fan of this idea.
So, I decided to create a book with these photos, so that their existence would no longer depend on mine. Once printed, a book lasts for quite a while.
10 years - 1300 photos - 294 pages - 21x21cm
With a bit of text here and there, written in English.
Samples:
THE 4 SECTIONS OF THIS BOOK:
︎Section 1/4
STAGED PICTURES:
(140 pages).
︎Section 2/4
EVENTS:
(66 pages).
︎Section 3/4
TRIPS:
(70 pages).
︎Section 4/4
BONUS SECTION:
(10 pages, 0 bikes).
The cover:
The cover went through several phases.
The earliest versions looked fine on digital images, but not so good once printed.
I'm referring to the purple versions you may have seen earlier.
But here is the final version, which is exactly the opposite:
It looks way better in your hands than it does in these photos.
CYYYCLES printed in white ink (which is something quite unusual), on mass-dyed grey textured paper, making it look like road markings.
︎ Watch this film to find out more about this book and my accident :
CYYYCLES - MY STORY
In this film:
Who is behind “CYYYCLES”, why shooting bikes, and what event made me realise that something had to be done with these photos before they might all disappear - the crash.
The second part starting at 6:42 explains how I managed to sort these photos into three categories in order to keep the book from becoming too messy, and what the main differences between them are.
- DECEMBER 2025 UPDATE -
The pre-order phase is now over, and the books were all printed.
I’ve got about 130 pre-orders, but I asked for 200 books. I might reopen the online store at some point, and I might also do a second batch in the future. I'll let you know about it on this website, and on my Instagram page︎
PS: This book covers 10 years - from 2014, when I started shooting bikes, to 2024, when I started working on it.
It is now almost 2026 as I write these lines, and I’ve already shot a lot of cool bikes, people, events and trips which aren’t included in this book.
So if thing keep going like this, there will probably be a second one in a few years (with a reprint of the first one in case you missed it)︎
