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Bike courier A story about a young bike courier in Vienna who gets mixed up between his daydreams and a real adventure. The Unknown Cyclist: 1998 2 Seconds: 1998 Downhill racing Laurie takes a job as a bike courier in Montreal after being fired from her previous job as a professional downhill racer. El Amateur: 1999 Road racing Argentina film ...
The Flying Scotsman is a 2006 British drama film, based on the life and career of Scottish amateur cyclist Graeme Obree.The film covers the period of Obree's life that saw him take, lose, and then retake the world one-hour distance record.
In 1967, 11 years later, Anquetil again broke the hour record, with 47.493 km (29.511 mi), but the record was disallowed because he refused to take the newly introduced post-race doping test. [4] He had objected to what he saw as the indignity of having to urinate in a tent in front of a crowded velodrome and said he would take the test later ...
Released on June 11, 1982, the modestly-budgeted film ended up outgrossing all of Spielberg's other movies at the time, and it remains his second-most successful release behind 1993's Jurassic ...
In the 1982 Great American Bike Race, later renamed the Race Across America, he completely changed the parameters, cycling for 9 days and 20 hours with three other cycling pioneers John Howard, John Marino and Michael Shermer. [1] [2] [3] Lon Haldeman became the first person to ride a bicycle across the United States in less than 10 days.
Bicycle Dreams is a 2009 documentary film by director Stephen Auerbach about the Race Across America, a 3000-mile cross-country bicycle race. The film has won numerous film festival awards and had a successful screening tour.
Much of the race action was filmed at the Coors Classic, a now-defunct stage race that was one of the USA's leading cycling events at the time of the film. Two stages in the film's featured race, the Morgul-Bismarck circuit race in Boulder and the "Tour of the Moon" at Colorado National Monument, were legendary Coors Classic stages.
In 2006, Fred Markham, a 1976-80 US Olympic team member, set a record distance of 85.99 km (53.43 mi) on the track at the Nissan Technical Center, near Casa Grande in Arizona. [1] Markham won $18,000 as a share of the $25,000 Dempsey-MacCready One Hour Prize that was to be awarded to the first HPV to surpass 90 km.