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BEJTOVIC MUSIC SCHOOL STUDENT "CYCLISTS CARRY PARCELS, CANISTERS... " When the entire world was concerned about how the automobile industry was developing and formula one technology was advancing, we faced the problem of good and bad bicycles. Which one is better? Which has more gears? Which one can go faster? Different devices were invented in order to increase the amount of cargo that could be carried, and along with this, the physical abilities of bicycle riders were getting better every day, because they had to move very fast with all that burden. I was one of those bicycle riders. Maybe I have not carried so many canisters, but I drove from one side of the town to another to continue with the jobs that I worked on before the war started. I went to a ballet school that was a couple of kilometers away from the place where I lived. My bicycle became a part of me. Wherever I went, to a shop, home, my bicycle was with me because it was inconceivable to be without it. This way, I could get to some place that was an hour's walk away, in only 20 minutes. A number of times I was in the situation where I had to go through parts of the city which would be dangerous for an airplane, let alone a bicycle, because of sniper fire, but I would wait, calm down and then start to drive as fast as I could, hoping that nothing would happen to me. I was fortunate that it tuned out all right for me because during my bicycling life I didn't get a scratch. BORISLAV KANLIC DRIVER "GOLF - CAR OF THE YEAR" The Golf couldn't be kept in good shape during the war. Because there weren't any mechanics to repair it. Whoever knew something would fix their cars if they could. But that car didn't have to be repaired since it ran on everything you could think of. Except it didn't run on water. They haven't perfected it yet. But it did run on oil, we found some vegetable oil and poured that in. And reused motor oil, there was nothing that it didn't run on. You just push it, turn it on, and it goes. I think that Golf saved Sarajevo with the work that they got done. All of the institutions, even the ambulance squad, used Volkswagens. It really ran on anything. On oil, on heating oil, I can't think of anything that wouldn't make it go. And it never broke down. It jumped in the air went downhill, uphill, and the car that saved the city. NEDZAD HADzIALIC CYCLIST "BICYCLE - A TRANSPORTATION MEANS" People used transistors on bikes by making a connection between the place for the battery and the bicycle dynamo. By ordinary riding you could generate enough current to listen to the radio. In bicycle baskets you could transport wood or water canisters. Most of the baskets came from self-service shops and were stolen in the early days of the war. Back to Top |
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