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 file.
• 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 have been found so far.
  
• A GPX file with waypoints of all of the CRIs that have been found so far.
3. General information.

The available files date from 2026-07-29 and currently contain 832 CRIs.
39 were added (old value 793) since the previous upload (2026-07-11) and new CRIs were reported by:

• Rob Ainsley (ENG)
  https://e2e.bike
• CRI 822: Burton 11, Beryl (GBR)
• Menno Anker (NED)
  https://www.mennoanker.nl/
• CRI 815: Tour de France 23
• CRI 828: Tour de France 25
• Hans Hartjes (NED)
• CRI 833: Road Cyclist
• Johan Huys (BEL)
• CRI 805: Huys 03, Tom (BEL)
• Jaap de Jong (NED)(NED)
  https://www.jaapdejong.nl/
  
  • CRI 804: Naar 't Loo
  • CRI 809: Bicycle Gate Hoogersmilde
• Marco Schouten (NED)
• CRI 823: Bach, André (FRA)
• Veronique Smolders / Gemeente Brasschaat (BEL)
• CRI 793: Nutskast Brasschaat 01
• CRI 794: Nutskast Brasschaat 02
• CRI 795: Nutskast Brasschaat 03
• CRI 796: Nutskast Brasschaat 04
• CRI 797: Nutskast Brasschaat 05
• CRI 798: Nutskast Brasschaat 06
• CRI 799: Nutskast Brasschaat 07
• CRI 800: Nutskast Brasschaat 08
• CRI 801: Nutskast Brasschaat 09
• CRI 802: Nutskast Brasschaat 10
• CRI 803: Nutskast Brasschaat 11
• Dirk Vissers (BEL)
• CRI 826: Rucas di Montoso
• CRI 827: Time Trial Cyclist
• CRI 832: STORIE dI CICLISMO e BICLETTA in VAL SUSA 04
• Jac Zwart (NED)
• CRI 825: Tour de France 24

Map Page

• ID of the CRI which can be used to find more detailed ionformation in the Excel file as this is the topId in column A.
• Indication of the type CRI. E.g. Statue, Mural, Plaque, etc. This indication is based on column E of the Excel.
• Actual name of the CRI or for who the CRI is based on column C of the EXcel.

Click HERE to go to the map page.

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 CR it is.
• 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. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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).
5. 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).
6. A form to report new CRIs (for now please use mail to report new CRIs).
7. 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).
8. A more mobile/tablet friendly webpage
9. 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: