Cycling films - for a flight

rick_chasey

Got a long flight with people I don't really want to speak to.

Want a long cycling film / documentary to watch on my kindle fire.

Any ideas? I've probably seen half of the ones you'll recommend, but not the other half.

alihisgreat

Not to everyone's tastes but -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286244/?ref_=sr_3

or Premium Rush http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1547234/?ref_=sr_1

Richmond Racer

How about the Robert Millar doc, The High Life?

Ben6899

How about this one? http://vimeo.com/60635430

It received mixed reviews in IsIwyn's thread (I haven't watched it yet, so cannot comment), but maybe give it a go.

alihisgreat

Ben6899 wrote:

How about this one? http://vimeo.com/60635430

It received mixed reviews in IsIwyn's thread (I haven't watched it yet, so cannot comment), but maybe give it a go.

Don't bother. I made it to 20 mins then died of boredom.

Basically a load of crappy footage that's only suitable for a 3min promo mashed together into an hour of dull pretentiousness.

davidof

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ0pUiTXV40

skylla

davidof wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ0pUiTXV40

Yes! by far my favourite.

Yellow Peril

skylla wrote:

davidof wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ0pUiTXV40

Yes! by far my favourite.

Excellent! I'm an hour in so far. Brilliantly poetic narrative and a great insight to racing in that era. Great TT footage, the bikes being so much more elegant with low pro rims and slender steel frames. Also you can see a lot of sky's tactics in the way that Eddie kept the pace high to take the sting out the pure climbers.

Thoroughly good stuff, thanks for the link.

inkyfingers

Yellow Peril wrote:

skylla wrote:

davidof wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ0pUiTXV40

Yes! by far my favourite.

Excellent! I'm an hour in so far. Brilliantly poetic narrative and a great insight to racing in that era. Great TT footage, the bikes being so much more elegant with low pro rims and slender steel frames. Also you can see a lot of sky's tactics in the way that Eddie kept the pace high to take the sting out the pure climbers.

Thoroughly good stuff, thanks for the link.

I thought Sky and US Postal invented boring racing and that every race won with a 100km solo breakaway in those days?

skylla

It's like reinventing the wheel! I say that Sky equals Apple, in the sense that they are perceived to be an innovative brand, cutting edge - which really is only down to branding, marketing, packaging and rebatching, in my humble opinion.

big_p

how about a film about the nuttiest/pure genius mind in cycling.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472268/?ref_=sr_1

dave_1

23 Days in July is a good docu. Centres on Phil Anderson in the 1983 TDF

davidof

'eres another

http://kuci.org/~martin/sunday/A%20Sund ... 20Hell.avi

davidof

and another of the classic 70s cycle movies

http://youtu.be/lF-9K6CQ6S0

http://youtu.be/noH7dtoxeNc

http://youtu.be/f7cs3gXzDOc

http://youtu.be/fQo-0ql9E4Y

http://youtu.be/NJEpejdj0xY

and a little something for the hotel room later on, Cum Ride With Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7w4Z5UdcgM

pat1cp

Some of the documentarys from the last 20 years could be quite entertaining, especailly with the benefit of hindsight.

Bjarne doing his softly spoken thing in Overcoming springs to mind. "Come Ivan, you can jump off this cliff in the freezing fjord below, even though you swim like a brick".