uncle uncle

https://vimeo.com/222739995

clubman 

Charming 60's agit-prop!

Single speed Raleigh Shopper methinks?

Cute Boy Horse

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.

calamarichris

Does anyone viewing this thread speak English?

Little help...?

thumpism 

Anyone catch the trick bike edit early on?

Chr0m0ly 

3speedslow

uncle uncle

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.

Lemond1985

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.

since6 

Blue Eye Shadow, fire up the 80s, where's my shag carpet.

52telecaster

Proper seat height anyone?

thumpism 

The first is a cliche where he wasn't looking and collided with the girl who came up behind him, but the second was completely lame. Anyone who handled the bike as well as he did in the first part of the film would have been able to brake safely to a stop descending that hill before he crashed through the billboard.

thumpism 

Scarf, not cravat. Not only that, but an Isadora Duncan-quality scarf (below). That bastard is lucky he lived through the filming of this piece.

"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."

uncle uncle

I used to always were a bandanna around my neck, in the 80's when I bicycled. It was my "thing". I never knew how close I was to endangering myself... I'd liked to think that dude's scarf would rip away, given an Isadora Duncan (ID) moment; but then again, maybe not!

uncle uncle

No, I'll take blown knees instead.... yeah, you would think in Europe, someone would have stepped in and said something. Maybe it was a comical choice?

fleslider

I agree would love to have that 1964 Beetle !

Lascauxcaveman 

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.

non-fixie 

Filmed in some fashion-conscious, substance-powered parallel universe without any apparent logic that I've never been privy to.

Lemond1985

Yeah, someone should tell Jane how fattening pasta is. I hope she's not planning on frying any bacon in that getup.

Steve Whitlatch 

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

clubman 

Genesis?

thumpism 

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.

canklecat

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.

canklecat

Yup, typical mid to late '80s sport touring bike. Could have been a Centurion Ironman if the paint were flashier.

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".

GrainBrain

Yeah that was pretty sick!

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