What is the best Cycling Documentary?

[Richard A Thackeray]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q98o0ZKjRQY

Don't really recognise anyone, barring Chris Young, in the bar at the end
Presumably, handing the pint across

 

[Deleted member 23692]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62SlgjATjT0

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I was a fan of "High Life" in my teens.

It's maybe not a popular film (going by a discussion on here when it first came out) but I loved the reasonably recent British film "Bicycle", it was a bit lost in terms of direction and message but it looked and felt beautiful, and it had Mike Burrows in it which was worth the price alone. I appreciated that it wasn't all about racing. It really was about the bike.

 

[DRM]

View: https://youtu.be/AEEGIt6FC34

This is a good one, it’s worth scanning you tube for what’s available, I agree that A Sunday in hell is a great film

 

[Gravity Aided]

View: https://youtu.be/AEEGIt6FC34

This is a good one, it’s worth scanning you tube for what’s available, I agree that A Sunday in hell is a great film

I just found a copy of A Sunday in Hell in a thrift store for 1.99
Along with a Chris Carmichael training DVD about time trialing.

 

[DRM]

View: https://youtu.be/e74xncSCoqw

 

[DRM]

View: https://youtu.be/Jo9bCjFoZRE


Another 2 that’s worth a look, all the other videos from EF gone racing are on you tube

 

[DiddlyDodds]

On you tube you will find a set of clips from Ed Pratt, the only one barking mad enough to cycle around the world on a unicycle, he also self filmed the who thing and when you see the amount of filming he put into it its easy to see why it took three years to finish.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVLH54DgDWM&t=3s

 

[Smokin Joe]

For an enjoyable 25 minutes -


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioQKwa_SBCQ

 

[Racing roadkill]

There’s always an agenda with ‘documentaries’, I tend to make life easy, by ignoring them,

 

[Smokin Joe]

There’s always an agenda with ‘documentaries’, I tend to make life easy, by ignoring them,

Why don't you tell us what "Agendas" there are on those videos we've posted?

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Not sure if already mentioned but I liked It's all about the bike. Fascinating to see the thought process and mutter about the 'errors' he made

 

[Adam4868]

Why don't you tell us what "Agendas" there are on those videos we've posted?

Bikes and cycling ?

 

[faster]

Inspired to Ride - follows a handful of cyclists as they race unsupported in the inaugural year of The Trans Am Bike Race. Features Mike Hall who sadly killed a few years later when cycling in Australia

I can't recall seeing many cycling documentaries, but I watched Inspired to Ride on a plane and I enjoyed it so much that I watched it again on the return journey. I thought it was wonderful.

The cinematography is great, there's some good music in there and Mike Hall comes across as real gent. Such a sad loss.

 

[Slick]

I can't recall seeing many cycling documentaries, but I watched Inspired to Ride on a plane and I enjoyed it so much that I watched it again on the return journey. I thought it was wonderful.

The cinematography is great, there's some good music in there and Mike Hall comes across as real gent. Such a sad loss.

I watched it on a plane as well and thoroughly enjoyed it. What happened to him and what I know about the subsequent trial was disgusting and still comes to my mind from time to time.