“Sometimes, you feel lonely and take your bike out with nowhere to go. Sometimes, you meet that person by accident on the road. Sometimes, you get lost with friends, caught up in a real groove.”

Whatever the experience, bicycle can be a medium for expression, exploration, and connection — bringing together people, places, and every kind of perspectives that might otherwise never cross paths.

Community and culture will never be apart from cycling. What interests me most are the people who eager to shape it within the community and make it grow. We could say cycling is the part of their life, because we can feel how they love it so much. The person that put the effort on the bike, or bike-shop, or the story of their cycling journey and turned into loads of people doing the bike activity themselves, that’s impressive in our opinion. There are people with creativity, works, paths, and personal journeys behind it worth knowing.

For these materials, We invited BIMANTARA, an Indonesian illustrator, to draw three of our friends from different walks of life with their bicycles.

Cycling is surely an inclusive industry that we should always open it up. The people in this illustration are friendly faces we met across different cities, individuals who simply took a moment to start a conversation with us without hesitation, without knowing who we are. Since then, we’ve seen how dedicated they are to the cycling life–which is so personal, all while balancing their own unique and alternative paths outside of the bike world.

Illustrations by Bimantara Jacky Lestarijono.