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.
   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 fie
• Type of CRI (statue, mural, plaque, etc.).
• Name of the CRI.
2. Download links, see below, for:
• An Excel file with additional information on all of the CRIs that I found so far.
  
• A GPX file with waypoints of all of the CRIs that I found so far.
3. General information.

The available files date from 2026-05-20 and currently contain 715 CRIs.
32 were added (old value 683) since the previous month (2026-04-22) and new items were reported by:

• Gabriele Brunetti (ITA)
  CRI: 688, 709, 714 & 715
• Peter van den Broek (NED)
  CRI: 685.
• Anja von Heydebreck (GER)
  CRI: 697
  And resulting from that CRIs 698, 699 & 700.
• Jaap de Jong (NED)
  CRIs: 618, 689, 691 & 712
• Julian Kirwan-Taylor (GBR)
  CRI: 708
• Heiko Linnert (DEU)
  CRI: 692
• Aleksandra Radovanovic (HRV)
  CRI: 690.
• Wouter De Ruyck (BEL)
  CRI: 687.
• Roland Schuyer (NED)
  CRI: 701.
• Rob van der Westerlaken (NED)
  CRI: 693.

Map Page

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 cyclist or cycling.
• Bicycle attention figures

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 I have found so far:
• Ascent where the CRI is located on.
• The source who reported the CRI to the Cycling Collector.
• Postal Address of the CRI
• Text on the CRI
• Detailed information on the CRI
• 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 I 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. Clustered waypoints on the map.
   To be able to get this to work I need to convert the data in the Excel file a MySQL Database.
   Which I am working on.
2. Filters so one can show on the map e.g. only statues or only murals or only memorials that relate to professional cyclists.
   To be able to get this to work I need to convert the data in the Excel file a MySQL Database. Which I am working on.
For now the Excel file can be used to filter by using the category columns.
3. For now the 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).
4. 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).
5. A form to report new CRIs (for now please use mail to report new CRIs).
6. 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).
7. A more mobile/tablet friendly webpage
8. Adding a logo.

Contact

For now new CRIs you can reach out to me via the contact form: