Watching it was essentially required if you went to IU (as I did). I need to watch it now that I actually cycle.

if you think Pee Wee is the best bicycling movie of all time, then you haven't seen many bike movies.

for fictional flics about/involving cycling, it doesn't get much better than Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert

http://www.cine-files.com/cinemaniac...1/10/velo3.jpghttp://www.cine-files.com/cinemaniac...1/10/velo4.jpg
http://www.cinebel.be/portal/resourc...037/b60373.jpg

or the Triplettes de Belleville

http://www.ufmg.br/online/arquivos/L...ille-thumb.jpg

Another +1 for this. In fact, when drafting a semi, you actually don't need to pedal that hard. You are being pulled into the strong vacuum created behind the truck. So when doing 50 mph, a cyclist doesn't actually need to have a cadence and gear that equates to that speed. You will find you don't even need to pedal at all for brief periods. The faster you go though, the more you will need to work to keep in the slipstream. A semi also can't stop on a dime, and you have much better stopping power than he does. So the risk of slamming into the back of the truck if he brakes is low, but you need to pay attention to the spacial relationship as you ride.
Of course, this all assumes a level road and close drafting. Once you hit even the slightest grade, you will fall back a little, catch the back edge of the slipstream, and the ride is all over.

I was kidding about Pee Wee's Big Adventure. I didn't see the other film, but I thought the Triplettes de Belleville was great. I even got it on DVD...I just forgot about it when listing the others.....I'd put it up there with the best.

sorry.

it get's confusing when there's so many folk here who actually think that american flyers is a good film.

But Rae Dawn Chong was pretty tasty in it.

Trucks are nothin'! How about a train...in 1899? Never heard about Mile-a-Minute Murphy?

I cant find Breaking away. Blockbuster is the only place I really look though.

I was watching that show "Holy $%!@" on Vs. the other day and they showed a guy going around 200 mph down a volcano slope on a mountain bike. the question is, did he have to land it for it to count? haha

I had my team mate up to 58 behind my VW Golf.

:beer:

You won't do that on your compact chainrings though.

:roflmao:

jw

Hey ... I found it!

http://www.totalbike.com/shop/images...B000G1LZZ2.jpg

http://www.totalbike.com/items/le_ve...spoof_lzz2.htm

Is it viewable on US DVD players? I dunno ... I will enquire.

jw

if you can't, then you can watch it on your computer. nice movie about an average professional bike racer.

You can tell it's an old film ... they had left hand drive bike back then.

:p

jw

graphic designers.

joke aside, IIRC it's only 5 years old.

"Philippe Harel, realizer of very funny the Hikers, already with Poelvoorde, us involves in the cycling of the Seventies thanks to a meticulous reconstitution of the races, media which followed the event and of the sponsors of the time."

That's a great link--thanks, I love that stuff!

Thank you!:D

yes it's a terrible movie, but i love the scenes when they're racing in the mountains. they're even better on a big screen tv. those helicopter shots are sweet.

Great Colorado bike racing footage without soap opera movie plot:
http://www.velogear.com/prodinfo.asp?number=D+ZCD

Truckload of Cinzano on the way to Bloomington. They drink a lot of vermouth in Indiana, do they?

almost as much as they hit 60 MPH in the small ring.

If my memory serves me correctly, that was Gary Rybar. I seem to recall that he had gender reassignment surgery.

Quote:The fastest speed achieved on a bicycle was 204.73 kph (127.243 mph), by Jose Meiffret (France), July 16, 1962, on the German Autobahn from Freiburg, behind a car"
from "Cycling." Encyclopedia Britannica. Volume V. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1984


John Howard might have something to say about that......although doing it behind a car on the highway is just as impressive...

http://www.canosoarus.com/08LSRbicycle/LSR%20Bike01.htm




I don't know if the 207MPH figure stands up......

http://www.andrewtobias.com/newcolumns/990331.html

I don't think rollers count.....

but, it looks like someone did break Howard's record - Fred Rompelberg, who held the record before Howard, eventually broke it, using a similar motorpacing-type set up....166MPH+

http://www.fredrompelberg.com/en/htm...erg/record.asp

http://www.fredrompelberg.com/upload...auto_klein.jpg

Wow, this movie is how old and people are still debating little things like that?
Like it really matters?

I like this movie, despite its little issues, hey that's movies for you...
I have a white t-shirt with "Cutters" on it that I sometimes wear on group rides.
It sort of speaks to the fact that I still have DT shifters and no carbon fiber.

Right. Most movies that try to go into much depth about a sport get a lot of things wrong. It's still a fun movie.

I'm 26 and new to cycling. My dad (who owned the movie on "video disc" back in the day) thinks I'm nuts for taking up the sport, especially since I aspire to race with my school this spring. I thought about visiting him for the holidays in my new team kit, greeting him with a "Ciao, papa!" But alas, the kit orders don't arrive until January, and I'd have to borrow his old steel Bianchi with toe clips (which is way too big for me btw) for the full effect.