For those of you who like your culture with a bit of cycling

Coriander
Coriander Posts: 1,326
edited July 2009 in Pro race
Or should that be your cycling with a bit of culture?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2009/jul/24/bike-blog-pedal-pusher[/b]

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  • aurelio_-_banned
    aurelio_-_banned Posts: 1,317
    The best cycling-related piece of theatre I have seen was 'Pedal Power: The continuing journey of the National Clarion Cycling Club' presented by the Mikron theatre company of Huddersfield, back in 2004.

    In the 1890s, the bicycle was king of the road. The affordability of the new Safety Bicycle meant that, for at least one day a week, thousands could quit their work-a-day lives and enjoy the freedom of the open country. The "magic wheel" was seen by many as a way of spreading a new political gospel, and the Clarion Cyclist was born: "a Socialist utilising his cycle for the combined purposes of pleasure and propaganda". Soon the NCCC became a national phenomenon, which continues to this day.

    Pedal Power follows these very British radicals, with their saddlebags full of leaflets, along the road from politics to time trials, cloth caps to helmets, worsted to lycra. It tells the inspiring and entertaining story of the NCCC: fun, fellowship and the idea of sport as a means to an end. With a rousing song and the wind at its back, Mikron freewheels down the years with a hundred saddle-sore but laughing Clarionettes.
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Forgive my naivety but how do you turn a plastic chair around Christine Keeler-style? I know who she was but didn't know she had special techniques with plastic chairs.

    Relevant extract from linked review:
    "Every time the characters need to get on their bikes – which is, unsurprisingly, a frequent occurrence – the actors simulate cycling in a different way. My favourite is when they take plastic chairs (the sort you can find in every high school, job centre and waiting room in the land), turn them around, Christine Keeler-style, and then put a cleated shoe on to the seat as the ride is ridden in slow motion. This no doubt sounds absolutely bobbins, but it's surprisingly gripping stuff."
  • pottssteve
    pottssteve Posts: 4,069
    knedlicky wrote:
    Forgive my naivety but how do you turn a plastic chair around Christine Keeler-style? I know who she was but didn't know she had special techniques with plastic chairs.

    Relevant extract from linked review:
    "Every time the characters need to get on their bikes – which is, unsurprisingly, a frequent occurrence – the actors simulate cycling in a different way. My favourite is when they take plastic chairs (the sort you can find in every high school, job centre and waiting room in the land), turn them around, Christine Keeler-style, and then put a cleated shoe on to the seat as the ride is ridden in slow motion. This no doubt sounds absolutely bobbins, but it's surprisingly gripping stuff."

    knedlicky,
    First you take you kit off, then you turn the chair around so the back covers up your knockers a bit, and then you sit on it like this:

    http://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com ... geaxd.jpeg

    I can't tell if she's wearing cleats though.. :wink:
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