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who said i would draw all those people who live other people's life in there and out of that conference or. how good are the arguments of my guests councillors on just excuses. complex on confronting the powerful con d.w. . everyone welcome to the show and today's special edition of your max we're hitting the road is what's coming up. for posterity recreating a highlight from the history of most sports. on the road to alcohol for bike is a unique form of transport. i'm
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a classic creations building so books replicas of famous racing cars. we start off the show on four wheels in the world of automobiles the city two c.v. is a legend it's french name. literally translates to two steam whole says the french call was first produced in one thousand nine hundred forty nine and is often referred to as an umbrella on wheels it was more than just your average automobile the smooth suspension and affordable price made it an instant hit it's still popular popular to this day and the company in central france has given one model a make over like no other. this situation to c.d.'s or to ship is made of wood but you can still drive it. after five
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years of work the car's maker mission to o.b.l. is taking it out on its maiden voyage through the medieval town of notion. that put me off wes when he would go off this is the first time it's been on the streets of france you know. i got him out of one up what do you like the. question but i said to instead of getting a little bicycle i've got a little car for. the feeling there for probably not but you know the idea was to build additional not any of the grateful for it but you know if i had my heart set on building a durable it would help us at the fall. to to shift always a symbol of french one of the viva the art of enjoying life to the fullest. michel's created venture began with this two cd. built in one nine hundred fifty three it was just rusting away in a barn. that's who need immediate for my career thousands of times of
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my pencil my meter stick and paper to take all the measurements. on to clean the. then the retired carpenter began creating the car out of wood in his workshop based on blueprints studied sketched. don't put them on tape yes but my assembled everything on piece by piece. up with a frame up to the platform on the chassis of addition. and then i constructed my frame on top of this. sort of. play if i did and then i had to until the doors the hote in the wings to fit the standard body shell. michelle sentient his car from the would have a variety of fruit trees where there pear apple walnut or cherry trees he used only
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once from the water alley. installing the sixteen horsepower engine was one of the easier tasks faithfully reproducing the different parts of the car's body was incredibly time consuming. said there was this piece of wood here these air intakes it took three days of work so you know machine can do this but so i had to do everything by going to get well prepared with all the time was an issue for met with you in a debate that it didn't matter if i needed for five years i just wanted to make a model that was unique. michel is something of an expert at making wooden cars but one to ten scale model once he exhibits them in a little museum which he opens to visitors. he says wouldn't issue photo is now the main exhibit and his masterpiece. you might get
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you can make hundreds of little wooden models like this from all makes of cars but building a full scale model like this is something you only do once in a lifetime or there won't be a second time. that the sawing in sanding is done michelle plans to spend the coming years showing off the fruits of his labor. and expose it i want to exhibited in art galleries and the big museums on the shelves are these am powers i think you know they don't exist so it may be even at the foot of the eiffel tower. that's what i think. the silk road beyond knows that his car is a real attraction after all people were drawn to it from the moment the wouldn't do shit though. made its debut in the streets of english. many people dream of quitting their job and travelling the world perhaps you do too
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but there are also lots of speed bumps on the way costs and commitments often put people off but a couple from berlin found an alternative way to make their dream a reality in two thousand and twelve and the deaths and doggy include figured out how to travel the world while making money during that travels but unlike most people they didn't hit the road but rather took to the skies to get a bird's eye view. and today most smooth and also incredible had always dreamed of soaring through the skies above new york or through monument valley. now for the two berliners that dream has come true they were allowed to fly directly over rio de janeiro. and they were the first to cross the andes on their flying motorbike now they're planning to travel across europe with a quick stop in a small town of germany's baltic coast christiane is waiting to greet them.
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welcome to. the flight coordinator lets the couple stay the night in the airport building for free if you have to everywhere we go people are really helpful when we take off we don't know where we're going to spend the night we have no set plan we improvise i guess for some people and it be of course an aureole not knowing the world i'll be spending the night but for us it's really exciting and it always turns out really well in my toilet but also. andreas tomato was twenty seven years old when he emigrated to south america and worked there as a tour guide six years ago during a tour through the amazon rain forest he met. six months later they decided to fly around the world. i'm going to fluctuate he opened a bottle of wine and finished it and afterward you lived in colombia ecuador the caribbean venezuela and so on i want to go there too so i said ok take
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a year off no problem and i said i no longer then we opened a second bottle of wine and when we'd finished that was my green remembered that she had always wanted to fly over a herd of elephants in africa you know the low altitude remember that. so i said ok quit your job we'll sell all our stuff and a few things we keep we'll just put on the trike and then we'll head off on our world tour. since two thousand and twelve the couple have traveled to over forty different countries they've covered a distance of more than fifty thousand kilometers it's a real adventure because the ultralight hang glider waste just four hundred seventy five kilograms and is very susceptible to the weather. i don't have a fear flying i love flying and this open trike is like a bird this is the real deal it's so much fun. and it's my place to spot.
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the couple finance their globetrotter existence with the help of sponsors by giving talks and writing books and on to a still works as a tour guide but flying around in their trike also has a downside they can only take twelve kilos of luggage with them that's it. they pick as we have put all our luggage in there the blue bags contain our clothes and we have a tank over here so we can walk to a petrol station to get fuel and in the end our computer and camera chargers are down they are in the black bag of food come was. then down here into the engine is our parachute can even activated an altitude of one hundred meters. not me fortunately they've never had to use their parachutes but they've certainly encountered some dangerous situations and the do i want to try to make an emergency landing in ecuador and it was raining really hard i couldn't see a thing we flew along the coast and there was a small patch of sand and i had to try to land the trike there is
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a strip of sand it was fifty years sixty metres long. i managed. and the next day when the tide was out really you realised that we now have lots of space and we're going to take off again safely but a lot of these i mean i thought. the two adventurers plan to keep flying across europe until the end of twenty eighteen then in twenty nineteen they planned to head for africa their greatest aim is to one day arrive in sydney after clocking up one hundred sixty thousand kilometers and crossing over one hundred countries that would certainly be one record breaking flight and the journey of a lifetime. well next time you're out and about how to look up to see if you can spot. pedaling above you now moving on to motor sports fans of also movil racing live the high
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octane thrills the most spectacular moves happen at lightning speed and when it comes to events from the early days of the sport they're often only preserved in the memories of eyewitnesses so two young men from the czech republic set out to fill those gaps in history with a visual record using an amazing combination of creativity and technology. july nine hundred thirty eight an accident on the new world green racetrack a mercedes are robust into flames. nine hundred fifty seven juan manuel fangio drives the legendary german grand prix and his maserati to fifty after. high resolution pictures from the history of motor sports moments that were actually never photographed. the pictures have come from the czech design studio unique and limited petra millau ski and yon around boussac first had the idea when they saw an old miss say this silver arrow in progress in technical
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museum he told that they had really been motor sports enthusiast. i became really hardcore fan when i saw in this place this car where we are staying right now. these were such cars such a powerful cars before war two. was very surprising. from there i started to be very passionate about history. i'm not a racer on it i'm not so much pasta noted for years peter trying to kill myself so . it's really more about the aesthetics around it for me at least. to form an advertising designer's began recreating moments of motorsport history in twenty forty five hundred young go to tremendous lengths to produce their pictures they work through an average of two thousand original sources before finally deciding on a motif or two then start by creating a three d.
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model of the car and it centering on the computer and go on to make sure every detail is right this precise template is crucial for the next step the photo shoot with this is the picture that we rendered before we went to the photo shoot and then when we were on a search using the people so you know you know you can crop up every single. person and place it into the picture so you know that the angle is right that the lighting is right and you know that you get the picture you need. when preparing jaan take their photos it looks like a film sat at times with up to one hundred extras in historical clothing makeup artists and artificial rain. the photos are later mounted on campuses up to eight square metres in science so even the smallest details can be scrutinised. the last step is again digital image processing then the shots from the center combined with the three d.
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model this is when the virtual car and the photograph driver become one details like atmospheric lighting or realistic smoke around it it's a demanding process and takes two to three months to produce a single picture the main reason why we're doing what we're doing was because we want to run away from what we did before that was like working in advertisement so the very first project so there was started because we really wanted to enjoy what we're doing we we didn't want to have anyone on the other side telling us how to do things better in iran also except commissions british racing team mclaren for example ordered a picture of james hunt racing to win the one nine hundred seventy six world championship in japan a single picture like this costs fifty thousand euros and up the techniques the artist use can also be applied to themes outside of motor sports well i have a list of fifty scenes that i like to do so i would probably go to some ancient
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wars like crusaders or. something like this. now i think the first landing on the more interesting and we kind of started with the project but we stick to the cars so why are. for now the two have their work cut out just reconstructing pictures from the history of racing and currently working on projects with ferrari and aston martin. saigon patter moleski into tons of things outside the world of motor sports a series on historic aircraft is already waiting in the waiting. now to a vehicle that isn't powered by a motor but has persevered as a method of transport for around two hundred years in fact there are more bicycles than cars in the world both in total and ranked by the number of individual models
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produced there have been all sorts of advancements since the first wooden bike hit the store shelves in the nineteenth century but in bold garia two architects turned bike inventors have created a new version by taking a step back their so-called hof bike reduces the bicycle to its basic elements our reporter michael gave it a test run on the streets of sofya. this is not an ordinary bike ride through town this is not an ordinary bike it doesn't have just one pack wheel but two and they're both tiny and forget about the saddle this is not about comfort you have to use your whole body to ride a hoss bike and it takes a bit of practice. that's half biogas animism it's a cross between a bike can escape but when you ride it it's a completely different feeling it's
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a whole new experience because i'm against. hi michael you went to sofia in bulgaria to meet the inventors of the half bike so far all half bikes are made in this workshop and sent around the world mainly to the us off by costs five hundred euros to easy to fold up which is great for people who live in thick cities. but designers are originally architects who love to invent things. like to simplify things to an extreme so rights that are thought to think of a bike which is. very thick very very compact and very light. and then they do. from four. by people came. so i was. like. four for everybody. the prototypes consisted of hostile by going to meet back wheel many
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temps featuring too many wheels followed but they all liked stability and balance the breakthrough came when they started using two skateboard wheels and a structured native and a mini and would then the back wheels got bigger and thicker. our reporter first learned the ropes the design is explained that she could only brake using the back wheels and that there were three yet they pointed out that the handlebar can't be twisted you have to shift your weight to go around the corner. then it was time to put the theory to the test. the bible start their own. direction again try to get a straight wife try to balance the bar and try to be as real like this was. ever at first she wasn't at all relaxed she thought she wouldn't make it at all it was a bit rough to begin with.
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but she got the hang of it after ten minutes. although she didn't dare try the tougher courses beating those two more experienced tough bike riders. she practiced a little more before venturing out into the wild since there are a few psychopaths in sofia she preferred to hone his skills in the park before confronting the up and jungle she was able to go straight quite fast but it took a while to master turns. then she decided to see if others were quicker at learning from she was. it seems that hardly anyone can really ride a half bike without
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a bit of practice. but those who master it and sometimes ride two at the same time . but in poverty if they ever let it looks easy but it really isn't it takes quite a lot of effort and every muscle is needed you have to be quite fit to ride a half bike but if you are then it's really quite good fun then of course fast. while michael was having fun and beginning to master riding the half bike the team and sophia was already working on new ideas since there are many. ways of reinventing the wheel. well we're not reinventing the wheel with the next lot of rickety cars we now move on to soapbox cars normally motiveless vehicles which are raced on a downhill road but frank ben conan's creations are quite
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a lot more glamorous than your standard gravity reisa he models them on iconic old racing cars from blue gutsy ferrari and bentley it all began as a hobby but today he makes a pretty penny with his custom made old timers. features that hark back to the olden days but this isn't a well preserved classic it's a soap box replica built in twenty seventeen and the proposition of sisters. that we as kids are allowed to drive a car out even if it's a small cut. out and it's a lot of fun. i really should this i think it's great to you because it's fun and it's always a new experience. it's. this soap box even has a motor the girl's two seater is handmade and one of a kind it's
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a remake of the english one nine hundred thirty s. . and it's pretty much their dad's dream car dad close down is a big fan of classic cars and he's aiming to pass on his passion to you and. i know from his course i'm very hopeful and i take my girls to classic car races at the nürburgring. sometimes they take part in rallies along with me and my wife. i'm optimistic that they'll make their father's hobby their own. and this is the man who builds. from people in southern germany his artistry might not make him rich but he doesn't mind it's all about the look in kids' eyes. when i see that makes me really happy because that's what the cars are actually made for i
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mean i drive but when children drive and really have a great time that's the greatest joy for me. it all started in twenty twelve there was the soap box race in funky village you've been tinkering with cars. since he was sixteen so he had no problem building his own brace or. he didn't have the space to keep it up so he sold it there was such an onslaught of buyers that each one building soap boxes into a regular thing. i love any type of car before world war two they're all beautiful i have no favorites like all my cars. he works as a foreign sales agent but he's made quite a name for himself with his classic soap box speedsters. a certain basic idea in my head and then i start building and it just happens. it develops itself building it there's no fix concept this is a concept i know what the car is supposed to look like when it's done and then i make sure that's how it turns out. each of his soap boxes is one of.
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the base is always a wooden board fixed to a wooden frame then he makes the aluminum body which can take weeks sometimes months depending on the model with all this attention to detail doesn't it hurt to let go of his mobile masterpieces. yes every time. but the problem is everything. you have to let it go sooner or later. but maybe just one can stay. completely rebuilt this classic car only the chassis and motor of the english one nine hundred thirty standard have remains of. four cars husky design something extra special a soapbox to practice racing. each day vibe the idea was really to get a sense of the experience even indoors the car turned out beautifully good for me
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but it doesn't have any wheels of course it runs on roller self but it really helps me practice for circuit races. his daughters are still only ten and eleven years old and it'll be a while before they're racing for real. if the two still have a soft spot for cars like their dad when they grow up remains to be seen right now it's looking highly likely. that's all from us for today tomorrow will be back with another special edition of your marks so make sure to join us again about for now. and next year about special cuisine fine dining fifty meters above the ground. odd couple to get
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