A Sneak Peek at the BAM! Program

The full program will be online in a few days.
It’s been a struggle, but we’re happy and alive.

Here’s a preview:

– 🇿🇦 🇮🇹 Davide Franchi, interviewed by Ricky Oliver, will talk about his journey through Africa, driven by the energy of youth
– 🌲🌲🌳🌳 Giulia e Mattia from Betula Stuff will teach us how to read nature during our travels: trees, plants, and animals
– 🧘‍♂️ 👣 The wonderful Andrea Loreni, the tightrope walker,
will talk about failure and balance,
and will also lead a workshop on breathing
– 🍀 Raphael, organizer of SneakPeaks and Orbit360,
will share his idea of sustainable travel (
he’s arriving by bike from Germany)
– 👱‍♀️ the BikeBoobs will talk about traveling as women
– ☀️ the Enough Team  racconterà del viaggio bikepacking
BAM! on the road Calabria Edition, will tell the story of
the BAM! on the Road Calabria Edition bikepacking trip,
which we did together with Montagne del Sole.
– 🆘 Dino Lanzaretti will hold an emergency mechanics
workshop with our friends from State of Bike,
and then share his always amazing stories from the ends of the earth.
– 👨‍🎨 2BROS will teach us how to turn a water bottle into a work of art,
in collaboration with ELITE.

And much more.
Big journeys, small adventures,
stories to share,
cold beers with friends,
escape plans,
concerts, DJ sets,
late-night talks under the stars.
BAM! is coming back.

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💥 IMPORTANT 💥

BAM! is a free-entry event.
However, if you want to camp inside the park of Villa Contarini—and it’s totally worth it—
you’ll need to purchase access to the camping area and bring your own tent,
or book a pre-pitched tent
or a glamping tent.
You’ll find everything you need at the link above.

Do you know who the Wright brothers were?

As far as we’re concerned, they were dreamers, pretty amazing ones.
They were the ones who invented the airplane, to be clear:
the first to fly,
following in the footsteps of Icarus, Leonardo, and other madmen who chased this dream and paid the price.
🛩
But what you may not know
is that before they took to the skies, Wilbur and Orville Wright
were riding bicycles on the ground.
Yes—before they became pioneers of flight,
🚲 they were bicycle mechanics. 🚲
In 1892, in Ohio, they opened the “Wright Cycle Exchange,”
a shop where they sold, repaired, and designed bicycles.
And it wasn’t a coincidence: for the Wright brothers—as for us—the bicycle wasn’t just a means of transportation.
It was proof that balance can be learned, that instability can be tamed.
That the wind is a force.
💕 And who, while pedaling, hasn’t once felt like they were flying?
They used the very principles of the bicycle—dynamic balance, force control, lightness—to design the first wings.
Not only that: the bike shop funded their experiments.
Without selling bikes, they wouldn’t have had the money to build gliders,
kites, and finally the Flyer—the first motor-powered airplane.
Some parts of the airplane were even made from bike components, like the chain and bearings.
And maybe it’s no coincidence that the first to truly believe in flight were two cyclists:
anyone who rides knows
it takes a certain courage to lift off the ground, even if just for a few centimeters—
and when it happens, you really do feel like Icarus.
🦅
So, on December 17, 1903, when Orville flew for 12 seconds and 36 meters,
he wasn’t just a man flying:
he was a cyclist making the biggest leap of all time.
When you ride,
when the horizon lies ahead,
isn’t that machine beneath you
a tool to turn your heartbeat into speed,
to project your thoughts meters ahead of your nose—
a mechanism that transcends the laws of mechanics and makes us something special?
❤️
Machines, my friends, made to make us dream.
(Then came Ryanair, commercial flights, wars,
and flying wasn’t just poetry anymore.
Bikes are better)