Favorite cycling films
12-26-21, 10:09 PM
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By far the best to get a feel for what it takes to be a rider in the Tour de France, the film Pour un Maillot Jaune from 1965 is in a class by itself.Vive le Tour is another good short documentary from 1962. The Flying Scotsman is a good movie about the politics of the sports organizations that control the participants and make changes retroactively because they can.
12-26-21, 11:04 PM
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Three videos that I have found really capture the essence if cycling, other than Breaking Away which is a great classic, are unReal, Le Ride, and Where the Trail Ends.
A few films on GCN (Global Cycling Network) are good also:
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A few films on GCN (Global Cycling Network) are good also:
- Send It
- 1903
- Train Like a Belgian
- Feather (especially good)
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12-27-21, 09:35 AM
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Awesome recommendations so far. To add to the free YouTube documentary style movies available:
Red Light Go - NYC bike messenger doc
Pedal - one of the earliest POV films of modern bike video era
Beasts of Burden - SF bike messenger doc
Red Light Go - NYC bike messenger doc
Pedal - one of the earliest POV films of modern bike video era
Beasts of Burden - SF bike messenger doc
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12-30-21, 01:15 PM
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I really enjoyed this movie...
https://youtu.be/go1iV7bZbZs
https://youtu.be/go1iV7bZbZs
found it on Amazon.
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12-30-21, 08:07 PM
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Awesome recommendations so far. To add to the free YouTube documentary style movies available:
Red Light Go - NYC bike messenger doc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_TNZHuSPwg
Pedal - one of the earliest POV films of modern bike video era
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyitrLKUUJI
Beasts of Burden - SF bike messenger doc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EmbaZYRn8
Red Light Go - NYC bike messenger doc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_TNZHuSPwg
Pedal - one of the earliest POV films of modern bike video era
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyitrLKUUJI
Beasts of Burden - SF bike messenger doc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EmbaZYRn8
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12-30-21, 09:11 PM
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Just finished watching Le Bike, following the original 1923 TdF route in the same time frame - 28 days? What blew me away, other than the unreal mileage (about 150 miles/day) was the first stage in the Pyrenees was 200 miles with 20,000’ climbing in one day! And this is on the original heavy period bikes where to change gears, they had to remove the back wheel and manually move the chain to the sprocket of choice. Many didn’t finish since it was more a race of attrition.
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12-31-21, 10:21 AM
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+1 for Pee Wee's big Adventure for silliness
+1 to Bicycle Thieves for great story, the scenery, and improvised acting
and ET; I was a kid when this came out and the BMX scenes were an eye opener for me.
+1 to Bicycle Thieves for great story, the scenery, and improvised acting
and ET; I was a kid when this came out and the BMX scenes were an eye opener for me.
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12-31-21, 04:02 PM
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guessing that this is not the best forum/thread to posit “death of a cyclist” from 1955 in. great movie tho…………
01-01-22, 12:51 PM
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Here's a little short that I really like. Before lycra and helmets. Great comradery. And the commentary is wonderful.
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The video version of this series has been on RetroCrush or Midnight Pulp a lot lately.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowamushi_Pedal
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowamushi_Pedal
01-28-23, 10:07 PM
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I watched April 9th, a movie generally about the German invasion of Denmark in 1940, and specifically about the fortunes of a Danish bicycle platoon fighting against German light armor. Yeah, that goes about like you'd imagine. The military 'flat tire drill' was interesting.
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Yet to be made - Gino Bartal; the Cycling St Francis.
Read https://time.com/6250483/gino-bartal...st-italy-wwii/
Read https://time.com/6250483/gino-bartal...st-italy-wwii/
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I really liked American Flyers when it came out even though I didn't really ride bikes that much back then. Who can forget Rae Dawn Chong's 10 second wheel change, during the 1st stage of the race?
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I remember Breaking Away as the first time I saw a teenager with actual zits, in a movie. For me, it made up for the main character's over-the-top Italian persona.
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01-30-23, 09:18 PM
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#1 Breaking Away
#2 American Flyers
After that it's:
Klunkerz (Movie about the birth of mountain biking in California - My hero Tom Ritchey is in it)
The Ride (Re-enactment of the 1928 Tour de France - vintage bikes, gear and all - quite good)
Send It (A bike messenger movie on GCN+ - more of a documentary in the UK)
Quicksilver (Kevin Bacon as a bike messenger)
GCN Plus has some really, really excellent bike movies and documentaries. Worth the price of admission in my opinion and their library continues to build.
#2 American Flyers
After that it's:
Klunkerz (Movie about the birth of mountain biking in California - My hero Tom Ritchey is in it)
The Ride (Re-enactment of the 1928 Tour de France - vintage bikes, gear and all - quite good)
Send It (A bike messenger movie on GCN+ - more of a documentary in the UK)
Quicksilver (Kevin Bacon as a bike messenger)
GCN Plus has some really, really excellent bike movies and documentaries. Worth the price of admission in my opinion and their library continues to build.
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02-04-23, 10:44 AM
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Quicksilver was pretty cool. I've had four single speeds since then and never fell in love with any of them.
As a bicycle film, Pee Wee's Big Adventure is head and shoulders over anything else that has ever been made.
As a bicycle film, Pee Wee's Big Adventure is head and shoulders over anything else that has ever been made.
