So Who's Gonna See "The Flying Scotsman"??

On 1 May 2007 17:47:14 -0700, Prisoner at War
wrote:


Based on a true story, etc. -- the movie trailer makes it sound like
there's a bit of technical stuff involved, too! I can't stand how
they just have to have a "faithful girlfriend angle" in order to draw
in the couples, but who knows, maybe this obsessive biker really did
have one in real life.

Lately you can't tap in to cycling.tv without having this trailer
shoved down your throat. :-(

So who's gonna see this flick? About time they had another bicycle
movie. I'm still waiting for one about NYC messengers! Preferably
some kinda Hitchcock sorta thriller (mysterious package which has
unnamed men in suits chasing our hero who dodges rush hour
traffic).

Someting small enough to fit into a messenger bag instead of the trunk
of a '64 Malibu? ;-)

--
jeverett3ATsbcglobalDOTnet (John V. Everett)

Prisoner at War wrote:
Based on a true story, etc. -- the movie trailer makes it sound like
there's a bit of technical stuff involved, too! I can't stand how
they just have to have a "faithful girlfriend angle" in order to draw
in the couples, but who knows, maybe this obsessive biker really did
have one in real life.

So who's gonna see this flick? About time they had another bicycle
movie. I'm still waiting for one about NYC messengers! Preferably
some kinda Hitchcock sorta thriller (mysterious package which has
unnamed men in suits chasing our hero who dodges rush hour
traffic)...oops, that's supposed to be my secret project! Can't
figure out how to bring in the recumbents and tall bikes,
though...hmmmm....

Hmm shot from the movie is interesting:
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/04722...00012.jpg.html
--
Phil

Prisoner at War wrote:
Based on a true story, etc. -- the movie trailer makes it sound like
there's a bit of technical stuff involved, too! I can't stand how
they just have to have a "faithful girlfriend angle" in order to draw
in the couples, but who knows, maybe this obsessive biker really did
have one in real life.

So who's gonna see this flick? About time they had another bicycle
movie. I'm still waiting for one about NYC messengers! Preferably
some kinda Hitchcock sorta thriller (mysterious package which has
unnamed men in suits chasing our hero who dodges rush hour
traffic)...oops, that's supposed to be my secret project! Can't
figure out how to bring in the recumbents and tall bikes,
though...hmmmm....

Obree was manic depressive and that's the hook for the movie. Good
cycling movies are few and far between, There's a 4 hour miniseries
about Major Taylor starring Phil Morris, Breaking Away and American
Flyers, and The Bicycle Thief-just issued by Criterion on DVD in a
beautifully restored edition.
If you're looking for guys chasing an unnamed package you can't do
better than Ronin by John Frankenheimer. Fantastic car chases and
references to Japanese myths and movies. Doesn't get better than that.
Phil Brown

in a pub sequench in Dublin, the hero and his buddies stand around
roaring drunk and laughing drinking beer from Quart dixie cups then
they go outside and **** on the cobbles.

2 radial arteries up!

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Prisoner at War wrote:
Based on a true story, etc. -- the movie trailer makes it sound like
there's a bit of technical stuff involved, too! I can't stand how
they just have to have a "faithful girlfriend angle" in order to draw
in the couples, but who knows, maybe this obsessive biker really did
have one in real life.

So who's gonna see this flick? About time they had another bicycle
movie. I'm still waiting for one about NYC messengers! Preferably
some kinda Hitchcock sorta thriller (mysterious package which has
unnamed men in suits chasing our hero who dodges rush hour
traffic)...oops, that's supposed to be my secret project! Can't
figure out how to bring in the recumbents and tall bikes,
though...hmmmm....

Obree was manic depressive and that's the hook for the movie. Good
cycling movies are few and far between, There's a 4 hour miniseries
about Major Taylor starring Phil Morris, Breaking Away and American
Flyers, and The Bicycle Thief-just issued by Criterion on DVD in a
beautifully restored edition.
If you're looking for guys chasing an unnamed package you can't do
better than Ronin by John Frankenheimer. Fantastic car chases and
references to Japanese myths and movies. Doesn't get better than that.

PeeWee's Big Adventure. Greatest cycling movie of all times. He even
competes in the TdF. http://peeweeinthetourdefrance.ytmnd.com/ . Paul
Reubens would have been a huge star if it were not for that monkey spanking
incident. -- Jay Beattie.

On Wed, 02 May 2007 11:03:32 -0700, Jay Beattie wrote:

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Prisoner at War wrote:
Based on a true story, etc. -- the movie trailer makes it sound like
there's a bit of technical stuff involved, too! I can't stand how
they just have to have a "faithful girlfriend angle" in order to draw
in the couples, but who knows, maybe this obsessive biker really did
have one in real life.

So who's gonna see this flick? About time they had another bicycle
movie. I'm still waiting for one about NYC messengers! Preferably
some kinda Hitchcock sorta thriller (mysterious package which has
unnamed men in suits chasing our hero who dodges rush hour
traffic)...oops, that's supposed to be my secret project! Can't
figure out how to bring in the recumbents and tall bikes,
though...hmmmm....

Obree was manic depressive and that's the hook for the movie. Good
cycling movies are few and far between, There's a 4 hour miniseries
about Major Taylor starring Phil Morris, Breaking Away and American
Flyers, and The Bicycle Thief-just issued by Criterion on DVD in a
beautifully restored edition.
If you're looking for guys chasing an unnamed package you can't do
better than Ronin by John Frankenheimer. Fantastic car chases and
references to Japanese myths and movies. Doesn't get better than that.

PeeWee's Big Adventure. Greatest cycling movie of all times. He even
competes in the TdF. http://peeweeinthetourdefrance.ytmnd.com/ . Paul
Reubens would have been a huge star if it were not for that monkey spanking
incident. -- Jay Beattie.

I saw PeeWee's Big Adventure at the NYC Bicycle Film Festival with an
audience composed almost entirely of cyclists. When PeeWee discovered that
his bicycle had been stolen, you could feel the collective shudder move
its way through the crowd.

First, and only, and best, biography of a bicyclist that I have ever
read.

- Don Gillies (also a Scotsman)
San Diego, CA

In article ,
(Donald Gillies) wrote:

First, and only, and best, biography of a bicyclist that I have ever
read.

- Don Gillies (also a Scotsman)
San Diego, CA

"Lance Armstrong's War" is funny and insightful, and probably the best
account of a rather weird year in Lance's life. It's one of the better
sporting stories I've ever read, right up there with "Moneyball" and
"The Miracle of Castel di Sangro."

BTW, anyone who has not read "The Rider" by Tim Krabbé is doing
themselves a tremendous disservice. It is not only a great cycling
novel, it is a great novel.

--
Ryan Cousineau http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

On May 2, 1:18 pm, Ryan Cousineau wrote:

[snip]

BTW, anyone who has not read "The Rider" by Tim Krabbé is doing
themselves a tremendous disservice. It is not only a great cycling
novel, it is a great novel.
--
Ryan Cousineau /

Dear Ryan,

Whenever I get too excited about the objects of my former profession,
I remember how Ambrose Bierce defined them:

"NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the
same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is
too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its
successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama. Unity,
totality of effect, is impossible; for besides the few pages last read
all that is carried in mind is the mere plot of what has gone before.
To the romance the novel is what photography is to painting. Its
distinguishing principle, probability, corresponds to the literal
actuality of the photograph and puts it distinctly into the category
of reporting; whereas the free wing of the romancer enables him to
mount to such altitudes of imagination as he may be fitted to attain;
and the first three essentials of the literary art are imagination,
imagination and imagination. The art of writing novels, such as it
was, is long dead everywhere except in Russia, where it is new. Peace
to its ashes-some of which have a large sale."

By "romance," Bierce appears to mean ghost stories (which he loved to
write), though his definition of "romance" elsewhere in the Devil's
Dictionary carefully avoids such supernatural specifics, merely
stating that "the most fascinating fiction that we have is 'The
Thousand and One Nights.'"

Of course, Bierce was a journalist, a rhymester, an aphorist, and a
short-story author, but he couldn't write a novel for sour apples, so
his literary theory concerning the novel is open to question. He
couldn't help envying the huge sales of Russian novels and the success
of his novel-writing former newspaper acquaintance, Sam Clemens.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

Sam Clemens rocks