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a highlight from the history of motor sports. on the road to alcohol for bike is a unique form of transport. and classic creations buildings so books replicas of famous racing cars. we start off the show on four wheels in the world of automobiles the city to 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. situation

to see if the partition pole is made of wood but you can still drive it. after five years of work the car's maker mission to open yeah it's taking it out on its maiden voyage through the medieval town of knowledge. that wesley what it would be on this is the first time it's been on the streets of france you know. i get mad. at you like that. question but i sit there instead of getting a little bicycle i've got a little car there for. the feeling the fool well you know what the idea was to build additional not any other way but through the fire of my heart set on building a. house that they're full. of always a symbol of french while 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 we've needed media toys my came here thousands of times with my pencil my meter stick and paper to take all the measurements. on to clean those. then the retired carpenter began creating the cart of wood in his workshop based on glue prints that he'd sketched. don't put them on tape yes but my assembled everything on pieces by piece. up with a fair amount of the platform on the chassis of the dish. and then i constructed my frame on the top. sort of. and then i had to wait till the doors the hose in the wings to fit the standard body. michele sentient his car from the would have

a variety of fruit trees where there pear apple walnut for cherry trees he used only 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 and these air intakes it took three days of work so you know machine can do this so i had to do everything by i thought the time was an issue for me with the only debate that it didn't matter if i needed four or five years i just wanted to make a model that was unique and. michelle 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 you can make hundreds of little wooden models like this from all makes of cars or building a full scale model like this is something you only do once in a lifetime 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 all i want to exhibited in art galleries and the big museums on the shelves are losing power as they know they don't exist so it may be even at the foot of the eiffel tower. opiate not to i think. it's still grow beyond knows that his car is a real attraction after all people were drawn to it from the moment the wooden dish of the. made its debut in the streets of los.

many people dream of quitting their job and traveling the world perhaps you do too 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. 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 all the incredible had always dreamed of soaring through the skies above new york or through monument valley. now for the to 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 on germany's baltic coast christiane is waiting to greet them. good at the welcome desert storm. the flight coordinator lets the couple stay the night in the airport building for free and it's what i have the 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 be out of horrors and are you know in the world i'll be spending the night of it for us it's really exciting and it always turns out really well in monotone that bios. under 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 talking about six months later they decided to fly around the world. i'm going to fluctuate he opened

a bottle of wine and finished it afterward dream said you lived in colombia ecuador the caribbean venezuela and so on i want to go there to the mission i said ok take a year off no problem and i'm going to do i no longer and then we opened a second bottle of wine and when we'd finished that one mind green remembered that she had always wanted to fly over a herd of elephants in africa we had a low altitude remember that i was going to do 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 track 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. to spot. the couple finance their globetrotter existence with the help of sponsors by giving talks and writing books and on to buy 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 thats it. because 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 our computer and camera chargers are down there in the black bag food he. then down here into the engine is our parachute can even activated an altitude of one hundred meters that's in a group of not me fortunately they've never had to use their parachutes but they've certainly encountered some dangerous situations in the road i want to make an

emergency landing in ecuador and it was raining really hard i couldn't see a thing you flew along the coast and there was a small patch of sand and i had to try to land the trike there is a strip of sand was fifty years sixty meters long. i managed. and the next day when the tide was out really you realize that we now have lots of space and we're going to take off again safely but they found in. the two adventurers plan to keep flying across europe until the end of twenty eighteen then in two thousand and nineteen they plan 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 a 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 ultimate real racing live the high octane thrills the most spectacular moves happen at lightning speed and when it comes to events from the early days of the sport they often only preserved in the memories of witnesses 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 a new world green racetrack a mercedes are robust into flames. bogus nine hundred fifty seven one 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 unlimited petra millau ski and yon around first had the idea when they saw an old must say this silver arrow in prague technical museum he told that they had really been motor sports enthusiasts. 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 actually was very surprising. i from there i started to be very passionate about history about the lottery. 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 advertising designers began recreating moments of motorsport history in twenty forty. 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. 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 of the photo shoot physically this is the picture that we rendered before we went to the photo shoot so when we were on a search using the people so you you know you can. 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've got the picture you need. when patter and yon take their photos it looks like a film set a 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 scrutinized.

the last step is again digital image processing then a chance from a sensor combined with the three d. 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 and that was like an advertisement so the very first project so the earth was started because we really wanted to enjoy what we are 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 wanted a picture of james hunt racing to win one thousand 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 motorsports well i have a list of fifty scenes that i like to do so i would probably go to some. wars like crusaders or. something like this. now i think the first. interesting and we kind of started with the project but we stick to the cars so far. for now the two have their work cut out just reconstructing pictures from the history of racing they're currently working on projects with ferrari and aston martin but leon rambo zach and pat are moleski in quetta terms of things outside the world of motor sport 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 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 south yeah. this is not an ordinary bike ride through town this is not an ordinary bike it doesn't have just one back 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 hostage by and it takes a bit of practice. then

a miss and it's a cross between if i can escape for it but when you ride it it's a completely different feeling it's 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. by costs five hundred euros to easy to fold up which is great for people who live in the. cities. designers originally architects who love to invent things. like simplify things. started to think. bike which is. very thick very very very light. very. vital. so

i was. like. for for everybody. the prototypes consisted of half a bike and meet back wheel many times featuring too many wheels followed but the only stability and balance the breakthrough came when they started using two skateboard wheels and a structure made at a minimum and would then the back wheels got bigger and thicker. our reporter first learned the ropes to 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 bike will start the tour of either direction again try to get a straight wife and try to boss the bar and try to be as real like this last that.

it was 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. 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 elite. league team. 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 b. 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 french she was.

it seems that hardly anyone can really ride a half bike without a bit of practice. but those who master it can sometimes ride two at the same time . but in poverty it is the other like it looks easy but it really is and 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 venue that must 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 a mixed lot of rickety cause we now move on to soapbox cars normally motionless

vehicles which are raced on a downhill road but frank conan's creations are quite a lot more glamorous than your standard gravity reisa he models them on our conic 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 time. 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 proud possession of sisters and cannot. defend the example that we as kids are allowed to drive it comes out even if it's a small income. out and it's a lot of fun. i wish of this i think it's great because it's fun and it's always

a new experience. and. it's. this soapbox even has a motor the girls to cedar is handmade and one of a kind it's a remake of the english nine hundred thirty s. . and it's pretty much their dad's dream car. dad christiane is a big fan of classic cars and he's aiming to pass on his passion to us. my goal from this course i'm very hopeful and i take my girls to classic car races at the ring of sometimes they take part in rallies along with me and my wife on of all your time i'm optimistic that they'll make their father's hobby their own. and this is the man who hung from people in southern germany artistry might not make him rich he doesn't mind it's all about the look. when i see that makes

me really happy because that's what the cars are actually made for. i mean i like driving a little too 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 a soapbox racing. village he'd been tinkering with cars since he was sixteen so he had no problem building his own racer. he didn't have the space to keep it so he saw that there was such an onslaught of buyers that he turned building soap boxes into a regular thing. i love any type of car from before world war two they're all beautiful i have no favorites i like all my cars the same. he works as a foreign sales agent but he's made quite a name for himself with his classic soapbox 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 fixed 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 a kind 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 you can't keep everything. you have to let it go sooner or later . but maybe this one can stay. completely rebuilt this classic car only the chassis and motor of the english one nine hundred thirty standard have remains. for custom husky design something extra special

a soapbox to practice racing. the idea was really to get a sense of the experience even indoor the car turned out beautifully for me but it doesn't have any wheels of course it runs on roller self but it really helps me practice for circus 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 we'll be back with another special edition of your marks so make sure to join us again about an hour. in our next miramax special called crazy fine dining fifty metres above the ground

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