Your choice in cycling movies/film/cinema/documentaries

[rualexander]

Bikepacking race in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

https://youtu.be/ffa6iQagjdw

[John Saxby]

Thanks, Rual -- what a great choice:  splendid film, remarkable landscapes.

As for "testing limits", my reckoning these days is a bit more prosaic:  In about ten days, we've gone from a decidedly cool-and-late spring, with daytime highs around 4 or 5, to nearly mid-summer, with daytime highs in the low 30s, and the humidex in the mid-to-high 30s.

So, I'm looking verrry cautiously at a 3 1/2-hour there-and-back up into the Gatineau Hills across the river.

Cheers,  John

[rualexander]

Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival is currently showing online.

Of particular note to cyclists is Scotswoman Jenny Graham's round the world record breaking trip from 2018, showing in her film Eastbound.

https://vimff.org/

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/vimff2021adventure

Four adventure films including Eastbound for £9.70

Or the whole festival (about 50 films) for $85 Canadian.

[mrtharrison]

Links to many of the films shown at this year's excellent Cycle Touring Festival are still available to watch on their website:
https://cycletouringfestival.co.uk/films/

Highlights include Marcus Stitz's Unhurried- Scotland coast to coast on the John Muir Way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xCxTXvyKM0

And Jeremy Janin's The best bikepacking trip I've never had:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q6D7G3edAk

You'll also find recordings of many of this year's talks buried on their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/581676838635023/

They're also gradually making their way on to their Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmjDRtq77ugapKEYrGJtE2A

And if you feel inclined, the festival's donation page is here:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=JH4CH3UJY2YYW

[LorenzoB]

Yesterday I bumped into this youtube clip:

https://youtu.be/uyrlEE9AV58

For those that doubt the capabilities of 26'' steel wheelies!

After watching this movie I went downtown with my Sherpa riding at 30km/h 

[rualexander]

Ed Pratt has a new series on youtube, this time touring southwest England on a Thorn tandem with Rohloff.
Part one shows them collecting brand new tandem from SJSC in Bridgewater.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLocRYksAqGOI0thHuj8DaIn39Y0tB8ZHg

[brummie]

Not so much a movie, but a Club Tour having some deserved TLC ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6XMbuDMJEE

[JohnR]

Ed Pratt has a new series on youtube, this time touring southwest England on a Thorn tandem with Rohloff.
Part one shows them collecting brand new tandem from SJSC in Bridgewater.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLocRYksAqGOI0thHuj8DaIn39Y0tB8ZHg

He's parted company with his Kyrgyz girlfriend (at the end of a trip around Georgia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXtRLnv920Y) and traded in the tandem for a Nomad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td5Vg0VpMRE . I wonder where he plans to go next.

[PH]

He's parted company with his Kyrgyz girlfriend (at the end of a trip around Georgia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXtRLnv920Y) and traded in the tandem for a Nomad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td5Vg0VpMRE . I wonder where he plans to go next.

I enjoyed that, his experience of bivvying is similar to my one and only night, though I entered into the spirit of minimalist more than he did!

[Andre Jute]

Michael Cimino was a film director of lyrical genius, seen in such movies as Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Deer Hunter, and particularly in the financial failure, Heaven's Gate, now deservedly a cult film. As a teenager growing up in the country, I went to many weddings and barn dances as depicted in Heaven's Gate, and can thus testify to the authenticity of that extended scene.

Among Cimino's projects stalled in development were:
-- an adaptation of The Yellow Jersey by Ralph Hume, a novel about a bicycle marathon
-- a film set against the Tour de France which turned out to be impossible to shoot because of the close confines of the roads on which much of the race is held

They could have been such beautiful films...

[John Saxby]

+1 for "Heaven's Gate". (Don't recall a nod of thanks to Shakespeare, but I'll cut him some slack.  )