France, Belgium and Switzerland

The Cinécyclo lineage is nonprofit and single-rider. The Dijon association, founded in 2014, tours a kit of about 20 kg in three panniers that carried roughly 100 screenings to over 10,000 spectators across Senegal between November 2015 and June 2016 and still tours France every summer ^1,2. Its CinécycloBox has run on supercapacitors since 2016, with roughly 40–55 seconds of lithium buffer ^3,4, and its stand, a rotating rear-axle luggage rack developed in-house, carries no patent ⁵. Two entries descend from it: Cinécyclo Sénégal, the autonomous Senegalese offshoot, is loosely structured with no dated recent activity and is listed as uncertain ^6,7, and Belgium's Au Tour du Cycle names Cinécyclo as the model for its Ardennes touring festival "Je pédale pour mon film", which has run new editions every year since 2023 ^8,9.

A commercial and expedition layer sits alongside the association. Ludik Énergie sells a turnkey "Vélo Cinéma" package of eight adult and two child generator bikes for parties of 100 to 200-plus across France and Belgium ^10,11, and Cin'énergie has run pedal-cinema expeditions from France toward Argentina since 2014 ¹².

The cluster in Switzerland descends from the other lineage on this map, Germany's KLAK manual. Vélorution Zürich's VéloKino feeds ten bikes into a battery-buffered control unit — a battery where Cinécyclo uses supercapacitors — and credits "© fahrradkino.org" directly; the rental firm velokino.ch, the national cycling body VCS and Pro Velo sections touring since 2022 are all active ^{13,14,15,16,17}. Neither lineage rests on a patent: the only patent located in this corpus is Gaumont's 1921 "Lumicycle" pedal-generator for school projection, the field's earliest documented antecedent ⁵.