A movie with bicycles that you are probably not familiar with, and for good reasons
02-07-19, 03:19 PM
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A movie with bicycles that you are probably not familiar with, and for good reasons
02-07-19, 08:13 PM
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Charming 60's agit-prop! 
Single speed Raleigh Shopper methinks?
Single speed Raleigh Shopper methinks?
02-07-19, 08:26 PM
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RSW16 I think. Sash windows, VHF TV Aerials, milkman (?) shagging your wife and sneaking out the window, and Ena Sharples clones doing handbags at ten paces outside the pub. This much 60s could kill a man, probably with a rissole.
02-07-19, 09:08 PM
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Does anyone viewing this thread speak English?
Little help...?
Little help...?
02-07-19, 09:48 PM
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Anyone catch the trick bike edit early on?
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I was distracted by the cravat!
Like wow Fred! Where’s Daphnie and Velma?!
Like wow Fred! Where’s Daphnie and Velma?!
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Original poster here... I have to say the neck scarf thing is my favorite part, by far. One trope that the movie reinforces is the stereotype that someone using a bicycle is somehow immature or naive to the society surrounding him. Another is that every bicycle movie has to have a crash (this one has two). Then there is that "love at first sight" trope. My favorite bicycle moment is the juvenile three wheeler... that's pretty awesome.
02-09-19, 09:45 AM
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Actors who ride bikes on TV and in movies invariably have the worst form imaginable. They had acting coaches for just about everything in Hollywood, except bike riding.
I was really looking forward to seeing the proposed (but never made) biopic where Leo DiCaprio was gonna play Lance Armstrong, just to see if Leo could ride a bike or not. I imagine that stunt doubles would have been needed for almost every action scene.
I was really looking forward to seeing the proposed (but never made) biopic where Leo DiCaprio was gonna play Lance Armstrong, just to see if Leo could ride a bike or not. I imagine that stunt doubles would have been needed for almost every action scene.
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Blue Eye Shadow, fire up the 80s, where's my shag carpet.
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Originally Posted by uncle uncle
Another is that every bicycle movie has to have a crash (this one has two).
02-09-19, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Chr0m0ly
I was distracted by the cravat!
"Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50, when her scarf became entangled in the wheels and axle of the car in which she was riding."
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Originally Posted by thumpism
... Isadora Duncan-quality scarf (below). That bastard is lucky he lived through the filming of this piece.
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Originally Posted by 52telecaster
Proper seat height anyone?
02-10-19, 12:14 AM
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I want that blue VW bug! Wait, I don’t have a licence anymore, nope still want it!!
02-10-19, 02:10 AM
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Don't recall ever hearing of Judy Huxtable before, but I'm a big fan now!
Those bicycles were lame and silly, though. I suppose the underlying theme was to sell bicycles to people who don't like bicycles, maybe?
Hampstead Village looks like a cracking good place to to tour around on a proper bike, though.
Those bicycles were lame and silly, though. I suppose the underlying theme was to sell bicycles to people who don't like bicycles, maybe?
Hampstead Village looks like a cracking good place to to tour around on a proper bike, though.
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Father Of The Bride, about the 6:20 mark. Very cool car that he uses to pick up his daughters bike from a bike shop. I still can`t tell what bike it is but it is too big for his daughter, seat is slammed. LOL
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Time for research! IMDB has a motor vehicle equivalent but there should be a bike sub-site.
Looks like a Raleigh Technium when viewed in a blow-up from a different angle.
Looks like a Raleigh Technium when viewed in a blow-up from a different angle.
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02-10-19, 02:31 PM
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Charming, in that 1960s-'70s quirky British way. Seems to be yet another riff on the then-trendy theme of picaresque characters, handsome young rogues seeking their paths in life through offbeat ways, with lots of physical humor and occasional romantic encounters: O Lucky Man!, with Malcom McDowell in the Mick Travis character; Tom Jones; even Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man.
Absurdity and surrealism were en vogue in British TV and movies then, reflected in the plays and scripts of Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard and others, and many 1960s British action/adventure series -- most notably The Avengers when it peaked with the Emma Peel era.
Absurdity and surrealism were en vogue in British TV and movies then, reflected in the plays and scripts of Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard and others, and many 1960s British action/adventure series -- most notably The Avengers when it peaked with the Emma Peel era.
02-10-19, 02:37 PM
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Time for research! IMDB has a motor vehicle equivalent but there should be a bike sub-site.
Looks like a Raleigh Technium when viewed in a blow-up from a different angle.
Looks like a Raleigh Technium when viewed in a blow-up from a different angle.
Wasn't that supposed to his daughter's bike? That frame is almost too big even for me. Even with the seat post and stem slammed, it would just barely fit someone 5'11".
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Originally Posted by thumpism
Anyone catch the trick bike edit early on?
