[Film] - Breaking Away - 1979

Bhima
Bhima Posts: 2,145
edited April 2009 in The bottom bracket
Anyone seen this?

I just watched it and couldn't help thinking how similar I am to that guy - a layabout student who only cares about riding his bike and drafting trucks at 70mph. :D ...burst out laughing when his dad caught him shaving his legs! :lol:

Great movie...

Are there any other cycling movies I should check out? I'm sure there must be more...

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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    A Sunday in Hell
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  • dbb
    dbb Posts: 323
    american flyers is another one
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  • JLM74
    JLM74 Posts: 108
    The Flying Scotsman, Graham Obree biopic, featuring Sickboy from Trainspotting and one of the Hobbits.
  • kozzo
    kozzo Posts: 182
    edited April 2009
    Giro d'Italia - The Greatest Show on Earth

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    Impossible hour

    Sunday in hell - original version with danish commentary and english subtitles, longer and few important scenes explaining why some riders had to withdraw (thanks to "polite" French people who punctured tyres of the team car); nice girl and Brooklyn cap that she... "received..." these scenes are removed from eng. version

    Stars and the watercarriers

    (above are from 70')

    Overcoming - main and bonus disk
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    How can a layabout student afford a decent bike ?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    edited April 2009
    BMX Bandits.

    Hard to top Breaking Away though - it was responible for the phenomenon known as 'cinzanoing'....
  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    dmclite wrote:
    How can a layabout student afford a decent bike ?

    Rich parents :lol:
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  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    Let's get it right now, the main character wasn't a student at the begining, he was just cycling mad lad. Don't know where he got the money from as his parents were definately not rich and I don't recall him having a job. The girl he was chasing was a student. He was a local and the collage kids had a grudge against locals. In the end he opted to become a student.

    IIRC, the film won an Oscar for best script.

    Wasn't Kirt Russell in it as well?
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  • nielsamd
    nielsamd Posts: 174
    NapoleonD wrote:
    BMX Bandits.

    Hard to top American Flyers though - it was responible for the phenomenon known as 'cinzanoing'....

    Do you mean drafting tractor-trailors? (see below)
    `Team Cinzano' were the team in Breaking Away that stripped the main character of his pseudo-Italian innocence.

    re: Sirius631
    It wasn 't Kurt Russell in Breaking Away .. it was Dennis Quaid (assuming you're thinking of the `alpha male' character).
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078902/

    I recall, at the time, hunting down (pre-Web!) and buying the same style/colour cycling jersey the Dennis Christopher character wore when doing his 60 m.p.h. drafting behind the Cinzano tractor-trailor and then trying the stunt myself.
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  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    ShockedSoShocked wrote:
    dmclite wrote:
    How can a layabout student afford a decent bike ?

    Rich parents :lol:

    Or a whopping great overdraft, my preferred route in days gone by. :oops:

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    nielsamd wrote:
    NapoleonD wrote:
    BMX Bandits.

    Hard to top American Flyers though - it was responible for the phenomenon known as 'cinzanoing'....

    Do you mean drafting tractor-trailors? (see below)
    `Team Cinzano' were the team in Breaking Away that stripped the main character of his pseudo-Italian innocence.

    re: Sirius631
    It wasn 't Kurt Russell in Breaking Away .. it was Dennis Quaid (assuming you're thinking of the `alpha male' character).
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078902/

    I recall, at the time, hunting down (pre-Web!) and buying the same style/colour cycling jersey the Dennis Christopher character wore when doing his 60 m.p.h. drafting behind the Cinzano tractor-trailor and then trying the stunt myself.

    No, I mean shoving a frame pump in someone else's spokes...
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    redddraggon wrote:
    A Sunday in Hell

    +1

    And Overcoming and Hollentour too. Not movies as such :oops: .
  • Eau Rouge
    Eau Rouge Posts: 1,118
    Didn't the kid in 'Breaking Away' win his bike in a race before the film starts? I think it's his Dad that mentions it near the start.
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    American Flyers is not a good example of a great cycling movie. Pure and utter junk.
  • star_rover
    star_rover Posts: 318
    NapoleonD wrote:
    nielsamd wrote:
    NapoleonD wrote:
    BMX Bandits.

    Hard to top American Flyers though - it was responible for the phenomenon known as 'cinzanoing'....

    Do you mean drafting tractor-trailors? (see below)
    `Team Cinzano' were the team in Breaking Away that stripped the main character of his pseudo-Italian innocence.

    re: Sirius631
    It wasn 't Kurt Russell in Breaking Away .. it was Dennis Quaid (assuming you're thinking of the `alpha male' character).
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078902/

    I recall, at the time, hunting down (pre-Web!) and buying the same style/colour cycling jersey the Dennis Christopher character wore when doing his 60 m.p.h. drafting behind the Cinzano tractor-trailor and then trying the stunt myself.

    No, I mean shoving a frame pump in someone else's spokes...

    That's in Breaking Away not American Flyers. With Team Cinzano doing the pump shoving.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Errrrr, yes. That's the one I mean't. Doh!
    American Flyers is nowhere near as good as Breaking Away.
  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    nielsamd wrote:

    re: Sirius631
    It wasn 't Kurt Russell in Breaking Away .. it was Dennis Quaid (assuming you're thinking of the `alpha male' character).
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078902/

    Well caught! It's been a long time since I've seen the film. I forgot about imbd for film references.
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  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Errrrr, yes. That's the one I mean't. Doh!
    American Flyers is nowhere near as good as Breaking Away.

    Both films are a bit cheesey, although entertaining.

    How many pro riders would carry pumps, as in Breaking Away?

    Kevin Costner's moustache in 'American Flyers'?
    To err is human, but to make a real balls up takes a super computer.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    American flyers is funny, the opening sequence when he is pedalling down the street, into his building/lift/flat is hilarious but I am also a bit envious in a weird way... Also like the fact the Russians were baddies without having done anything in particular. :lol:

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