The fifth music style I’ve always wanted to try: Cycling Music.
The fifth music style I’ve always wanted to try: Cycling Music.
At this point, this “things-I-want-to-try” series is starting to feel like a sneaky excuse to keep myself practicing piano and working out regularly 😂
Honestly, the cycling series has been the hardest one so far. It took a lot of trial and error to get this prototype version right.
Huge thanks to dann and Jack for going along with my madness 😆
There are definitely areas that could be improved, but the more I watched it, the more I fell in love with its little flaws 😁
The old me would’ve kept tweaking it forever, but now I think: let’s leave the fixes for the next one.
These imperfections actually make this the perfect first entry in the series—they’re unrepeatable.
Even the footage was special: it’s the first time Qunyu recorded a ride using my mic setup! 📹
I remember this video was shot in May, when we casually rode out to Huazhong Flower Clock.
We weren’t planning to record anything specific—just a test.
He ended up looping around the clock plaza while I had no idea where he went 😂
When he came back and showed me the footage, I was like: “This is perfect—we can totally use this!”
I already had the music forming in my head.
Qunyu’s riding style has always struck me as kind of funny and lovable 😜
And this whole clip captured exactly that energy.
There was even a cleaning lady in the background who unknowingly added a bit of comedic timing.
Since he was riding a flat-bar bike that day and using a mic, we captured less wind noise—and what was left were lovely retro-sounding ratchets and loose, aged mechanical textures.
The stone path at the Flower Clock turned this into our own “Huazhong–Roubaix.” 😆
About the Bike Sounds:
If Qunyu handles the shifter and I just play piano, that’s too expected.
This time, I wanted to reverse roles—just like when I first got into cycling and he taught me everything.
Now it’s my turn to guide him into music 🎵
For the shifters, he brought three types, but for this video, we used a 2008 SRAM 10-speed from @sramroad.
It’s super lightweight, with more carbon fiber than Shimano at the time, giving it a slightly more mid-heavy tone compared to Shimano’s aluminum-heavy sound.
It was also lighter and snappier than Shimano’s top-tier groupsets of the time.
The bell is a handmade Spurcycle Original Bell (@spurcycle)—
its tone is loud but not sharp, resonant but not aggressive.
A friendly chime, not an angry one.
As for the bottle shaker, I filled an @alpecincycling @alpecindeceuninck water bottle with tiny bike parts like screws and valve caps to create a DIY percussive effect.
Mixing:
Jack helped me split the frequency ranges of the rhythmic mechanical sounds, then panned them left and right to add motion.
At the same time, he used compression to glue the chaotic bike noises into a tighter groove—
otherwise, the rhythm might’ve just gone completely off the rails 😂 一直想嘗試的音樂類型之五 Cycling Music，這些想嘗試系列快變成逼自己固定練琴和運動的創作系列了😂，不得不說這個單車系列是裡面最難做的，花了較多時間測試和修改才做出這個原型版本，謝謝群育和子傑陪我胡搞瞎搞😆，很多環節其實都還可以再優化，但看很多遍之後，卻越來越喜歡這些小瑕疵😁，如果是以前的我一定會再繼續改，但現在覺得要改留到下一支再改就好，目前這些小瑕疵都是作為這系列第一支影片最適合的元素，之後也很難再錄出來了，就連騎車影片也是我第一次帶麥克風去騎車群育所錄的📹～
我記得這部影片是5月有次跟他去騎花鐘，本來就想說測試錄而已，沒有要特別錄什麼，所以到了花鐘他就隨性的繞了一圈幫我測試錄一下，當下我也不知道他跑去哪兒😂，等到他回來我看了他剛剛錄的影片後，馬上就跟他說這個拍得很好ㄝ，直接可以用了！我腦中已經有音樂的樣貌了！因為群育騎車一直都給我一種幽默可愛的風格😜，而這部影片一整個就是他的fu，剛好還有位清潔阿姨配合了一下效果，那天他騎平把車，用麥克風收音少了很大的風聲後，留存下來的是有點復古的棘輪聲以及比較鬆動古老的機械聲，配上花鐘的石板路，就變成”花鐘－Roubaix”了😆。
而單車零件的部分，如果是群育玩手把我彈琴就太理所當然了，應該要像我剛騎車時，他教我怎麼騎車和拍影片一樣，換我教他玩音樂～
變把的部分，他總共帶了三種，而這次是用 @sramroad 2008 SRAM十速的變把，特點是非常輕量，在當時SRAM比shimano使用更多的碳纖維材質，所以聲音上也比鋁合金材質較多的shimano中頻再多一點，在一級變速器的重量，也比shimano低很多，變速上也更準更有效率。
車鈴的部分則是選了手工製的 @spurcycle Spurcycle Original Bell，聲音響而不尖，安全和諧的共鳴，是友善的提示，不是惡意的驅趕，而且聲音的能量強大而持久。
@alpecincycling @alpecindeceuninck 水壺的部分則是放入了許多細小的單車零件，螺絲、氣嘴蓋等等去做成沙鈴的聲音效果。
混音的部分，子傑幫我把負責節奏的零件音效的頻率，分頻切開後再pan到左右，讓整體再有一點跑動感，但同時也將這些瑣碎的零件音效，用compressor讓整個節奏在動態上更集中一點，以防跑的太放飛自我😂 #soundeffects #asmr #sounddesign #music #asmrmusic #asmrsounds #relaxationmusic #sound #musician #編曲大叔 #canyon #cyclinglife #cyclistlife #cycle #bike #cycling #mathieuvanderpoel #mvdp #bikelife #bicycle #alpecindeceuninck #alpecincycling #sram #オリジナル曲 #サントラ #ピアノ #자작곡 #오에스티 #originalsong #피아노
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