Cycling Documentaries?
 

Not sure where else to put this...But anyone recommend some cycling documentaries to watch during the off-season? Simple google search didn't turn up much, which I find really disappointing seeing as this is such a huge sport...there really isn't much?

There's lots of cycling related stuff on youtube...past races and documentaries . Here's one.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etExG6wD0Vk

Slaying the Badger
The Flying Scotsman, not really a documentary but based on a true story.

There are tons of other good bike flicks that aren't documentaries too.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...bicycle+movies

Also check out cyclingtorrents, lots of old races and misc.

BBC had some .. Fat Man on a Bike author Tom Vernon Touring Rural places and enjoying The Local Cuisine and people.
Touring Travelogues ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Vernon

• Fat Man Goes Norse (Channel 4, 1987)
• Fat Man in Argentina (Channel 4, 1990)
• Fat Man Goes Cajun (Channel 4, 1991)
• Fat Man Goes West (Meridian, 1993)
• Fat Man in France (BBC, 1994)
• Fat Man Wilts (Meridian, 1995)
• Fat Man of Kent (Meridian, 1996)

The documentary on Pantani is good..Accidental Death of a Cyclist

+1.

Ride of my Life, a one-hour BBC programme that accompanies Rob Penn's book, "It's all About the Bike." A guy travels around the world to assemble his dream bicycle.

My friend Joe and I get ten minutes in it.

There is "Cheetah: The Nelson Vails Story" which tells the story of the first African-American Olympic medallist in cycling and multi-time national sprint and world sprint champion, Nelson Vails:

https://vimeo.com/101547499

Hey! I'd like to see that, but it says content is available in CA only :(

This is a classic

Can't say how good they are but 2 I found were "The Armstrong Lie" and "Cycling Shorts: Short Documentaries about Cycling" possibly available at your local library. I would try to find "Ride the Divide," and there's "Bicycle dreams" "Road to Roubaix" or "Chasing Legends."[h=2][/h]or

I enjoyed this one


Ride of My Life

A Sunday In Hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxBTVU9JDrA

The best.

You guys are awesome! Ive seen hell on wheels and the like. Didn't know about cyclingtorrents! Thank you!

That was nostalgic and fun! Thanks!

Seriously Sunday in Hell, Stars and Watercarriers but No La Course en Tete?
Come on people...seriously though those other two are great as well. Anything Eddy gets me pumped. Those were the days of good quality racing, 10 speeds meant the entire bike had ten speeds, single pivot brakes, steel frames and that was it. No super fancy technology, no stupid head units and power meters and aero this and that. As long as you were Eddy Merckx, anyone could win. Anywho on to the movie:

Now I'm getting the same thing. I was only looking at this yesterday and I AM in Canada.

I'm trying the access via my iPad but yesterday I watched it on my desktop....maybe that has something to do with it?

Hmm, maybe; I was on an iPad, too. I'll give it a try from the laptop a little later. Thanks.