Cycling Collector

About Cycling Collector

Please note that these webpages are under construction. For now these webpages only offer:

1. A page with a map that shows flags that indicate where one can find the CRIs in the public space.
   Click HERE to go to the map page.
   When you click on a flag that represents a cycling related item then you can see:
• Numeric value which is the topID and that can be used to find additional information in the Excel file or table pages.
• the value 0 to 3 that shows the amount of stars "*" to indicate how much effort it is estimated it is worth to put into cycling to see the CRI
• Type of CRI (statue, mural, plaque, etc.).
• Name of the CRI.
2. Table pages (NEW):
There are 2 table pages that both support the options to go directly to Googlemaps to see where the CRI is located
and also to see the CRI on Google Streetview in case a Google Streetview link is available.
Please note that the Google Streetview links were made on a laptob and hence do not show the CRI always correctly on a mobile phone or tablet.
I am working on that to improve this so the Google Streetview shows the CRI correctly also when viewed on a mobile phone or tablet.
1. A table page with limited amount of columns from the Excel.
   Click HERE to go to the small table page.
2. A table page with all columns from the Excel.
   Click HERE to go to the large table page.
3. Download links, see below, for:
• An Excel file with additional information on all of the CRIs that have been found so far.
  
• A GPX file with waypoints of all of the CRIs that have been found so far.
4. General information.

The available files date from 2026-10-26 and currently contain 906 CRIs.
35 were added (old value 871) since the previous upload (2026-09-30) and new CRIs were reported by:

• Erwin Dekkers (NED)
• CRI 902: Sports Art Wall
• Wouter Deruyck (BEL)
  https://www.redbit.be
• CRI 875: World Championships Mural
• CRI 894: Godefroot, Walter (BEL)
• Mauro Repetti (ITA)
• CRI 874: Pantani 25, 26 & 27a, Marco (ITA)

Help Wanted Page

The Help Wanted page shows where I could use some help from you to find out where certain CRIs can be found.

Downloads

What is a Cycling Related Item (CRI)?

So what is a CRI? A CRI is one of the following:

• Memorials like statues, plaques or murals for:
• Professional Cyclists (e.g. Jan Janssen, Tom Boonen, etc)
• Races (e.g. Tour de France or Liège-Bastogne-Liège)
• People who are involved in cycling (e.g. Pierre Lallement, etc)
• Statues that related to cycling in general.
• Plaques that related to cycling in general.
• Murals that related to cycling in general.
• Streets, Cyclingpaths and Squares named after cyclists or that relate with cycling.
  Note that these are not a primary target to cycle to but if they are near where I cycle then I'll include them in my route.
• Museums that relate to cyclists or cycling.
• Bicycle attention figures
• Bicycle stands in a bicycle form

Please note that a CRI must be in the public space. I.e. it must be possible to reach the CRI to take a picture without asking permission to reach that location.
So CRIs that are on private property and that cannot be viewed from a public location are excluded.
It is OK in case there are opening hours so the CRI can be reached when the location is accessible to the public.
Tombstones on cemetaries are excluded as CRI.

What is in the Excel and GPX file?

So wat information is in the Excel and GPX files?

1. The Excel file contains the following information for every CRI that has been found so far:
• An ID for each CRI.
• Labels that show what kind of CRI it is (Statue, Mural, Plaque) and for who it is too.
• Who reported the CRI to the Cycling Collector (the source).
• Who visited the CRI and when so it is clear on what date a CRI was still present at that location.
• Ascent where the CRI is located on.
• Postal Address of the CRI.
• Text on the CRI (not yet present for all CRIs).
• Detailed information on the CRI (not yet present for all CRIs).
• Artist who made the CRI in case this information is available.
• GPS location (latitude & longitude) of the CRI
• Google Streetview url of the URI if available so one can see the CRI and its surroundings.
2. A GPX file with waypoints of all of the CRIs that have been found so far.
   These can be used to plan a ride to the CRI.
   

Planned improvements for the Cycling Collector webpages.

The Cycling Collector pages will add in time the following functionality in order of priority:

1. A "Help Wanted"page.
   As I would like some help to locate certaion CRIs of which I am unable to retrieve the location.
   Status: Done.
2. I have added a column in the Excel that will show in time the amount of stars each CRI has.
   Similar to like how the michelin star ranking for restaurants works.
• 0      When you pass the CRI then have a look.
          For me these are for instance the CRIs not made by artists or cycling attentionfigures.
• *     Worth to stop and have a good look at the CRI and take a picture.
          For me these are for instance the CRIs made by artists, special cycling attentionfigures or streetnames.
• **    It's worth it to cycle a detour to see the CRI and take pictures.
          For me these are for instance small CRIs that relate to professional cyclists or cycling races.
          These CRIs often relate to an interesting story.
• ***  It's worth it to only cycle to this specific CRI and take pictures.
          For me these are big CRIs that relate to professional cyclists or cycling races.
          These CRIs always relate to an interesting story.
3. Add filters possibilities so one can show on the map e.g. only statues or only murals or only memorials that relate to professional cyclists.
   Status: The SQL Database now has been filled with all CRIs. Next steps are:
   1. create a webpage that shows the information from the database.
      Status: Done, see Table pages.
   2. add filter possibilities to the above mentioned webpage.
   3. create waypoints on a map page based on the coordinates in the SQL database instead of using a gpx file.
   4. add filter possibilities to the above mentioned map page.
   For now the Excel file can be used to filter by using the category columns.
4. A download page with GPX files that contain a Track and Waypoints of the CRIs that the route passes.
5. Clustered waypoints on the map.
   The map page first needs to be changed to a vectorized map page. Which I am working on.
6. For now the Table pages or Excel must also be used to get additional information on the cycling related item and when one clicks on a flag no detailed information is shown. The plan is to change this so when one clicks on a flag one immediately sees:
   • topID value, type of CRI and name of it (this is what is offered right now).
   • a picture of that cycling related item (new).
   • the information on that cycling related item (new).
7. That one can login and upload which CRIs were visted by yourself and you can see on the map which CRIs were visited by you (green flag) and which CRIs have not yet been visted (red flag) or which were visited by someone else (blue flag).
8. A form to report new CRIs (for now please use mail to report new CRIs).
9. A form to report CRIs that are on the map but that are no longer there (for now please use mail to CRIs that are gone).
10. A more mobile/tablet friendly webpage
11. Adding a Cycling Collector logo.

Contact

New CRIs can be reported via the contact form which als can be used to reach out to me: