Best bicycle scenes ever?

[RWL2222]

Apologies for those who have sat through this drill before...what are the best bicycle scenes ever in the movies? What did it mean to you?

Just to get it out of the way, I will lead off with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_JPDEHU1ok

I prob saw this scene when I was eight or nine years old. Dang! I thought: I want to be like that guy on the bike!

I'm still trying.

(Tip o' the hat to PL Dino Suegiù for sparking the topic.)

[fignon's barber]

E.t.

[RWL2222]

E.t.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvbUkBG0yrc

[Dino Suegiù]

+2 on ET.

Plus: Bicycle Thieves (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2P4xo9kmPM) and Breaking Away (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTZ0N7VTDtY).

(And I actually like the BCaSK scene, but just really cannot stand that song.)

[ibis]

Rad. Loved that movie as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPVJzi7Ta9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTra9iekYII&t=21s

[yinzerniner]

and it's RAD:

https://i.gifer.com/6qlx.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPVJzi7Ta9w

[raven]

"It's bad luck just seeing a thing like that."

https://youtu.be/wQNI7q6ABnc?t=11

Geena Davis
Billy Murray
Randy Quaid

Did I mention Geena Davis? ;)

[pasadena]

every scene in Breaking Away

[azrider]

best bicycle scenes ever in the movie

https://readwatchlistensee.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/breaking_still.jpg

[Mike V]

https://readwatchlistensee.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/breaking_still.jpg

This

[Hindmost]

https://youtu.be/5YWpMZVtwsc

[duff_duffy]

You beat me too it!
Sincerely,
Father of son with initials RAD ;)

(and it's RAD:

https://i.gifer.com/6qlx.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPVJzi7Ta9w

[mistermo]

https://readwatchlistensee.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/breaking_still.jpg

Another vote

[reuben]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZFr4uiR5x0

[p nut]

I was also going to post the Breaking Away scene. But this ones also at the top of my list

https://www.thebostoncalendar.com/system/events/photos/000/166/290/original/27908123_10156159068109516_6118517902737072177_o.j pg?1519248428

[wallymann]

when rae dong chong executes a perfect roadside wheelchange -- LIKE A BOSS!

https://youtu.be/sA3DZ0v9Kw8?t=22

https://share.gifyoutube.com/vVAYk8.gif

[Tickdoc]

Duh...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1fVvGRlFoE&feature=share

[choke]

The second half of this clip from Toto al Giro d'Italia

https://vimeo.com/142055589

[martl]

Rae Dawn Chong changing Dennis Quaids rear wheel iin "American Flyer"

Wasted Ete Zabel telling his Soigneur how bad a 42kmh average in a TT was in "Höllentour"

Ole Ritter on his hotel bed facing the fact that he may never win a grand tour against Eddy Merckx in "Stars and Watercarriers"

Merckx powering down the paves trying to catch up to the leaders group in "Sunday in Hell"

[homagesilkhope]

Fantozzi!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ki6ECMF6BY

[el cheapo]

"Pee Wee's Big Adventure"

[GregL]

These aren't the "best" scenes ever, but they are amongst the most amusing...

1) The music video for Queen's song "Bicycle Race"

2) The bike scene from the movie "Mr. Bean's Holiday"

Greg

[oldpotatoe]

https://readwatchlistensee.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/breaking_still.jpg

Best...:)

[Elefantino]

https://readwatchlistensee.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/breaking_still.jpg

60 mph in the small ring.

Drop the mic...

[m_sasso]

The whole movie really!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urnRVr1P2bc

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/33/81/51/338151444d4420d59ac29191a010a221.jpg

[pdonk]

Kermit on his bike in the Muppet Movie

https://muppetmindset.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/kermit-cant-ride-a-bike/

[RWL2222]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s-jia4hCtI

[RWL2222]

Sir Grant posted this one in his Blahg in April, a highly entertaining spin down Market Street in SF


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO_1AdYRGW8&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop

[RWL2222]

From the Rivendell Blahg:

... It's kind of a chase scene that starts at around 1:07. It includes some super deft stream crossing in what appears to be wingtips and culminates in a bike-tossing scene at 1:09:16. I don't know how they did that, how many takes it took to nail it, and it seems to me to get the bike to end-o-over-and-over like that would have required a super tight headset, but it doesn't seem tight just before he thows it. But if not tight, it seems the front wheel would have gone all perpendicular and sabotaged the whole bounce-flip.

I urge you to watch at least from 1:08 to 1:11, but I know, there's never any time...."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4175&v=iS9ah5lYZDo&feature=emb_title


The whole Rivendell blog is here:
https://www.rivbike.com/blogs/peeking-through-the-knothole/no-10-april-28-or-so-rughut

[charliedid]

when rae dong chong executes a perfect roadside wheelchange -- LIKE A BOSS!

https://youtu.be/sA3DZ0v9Kw8?t=22

https://share.gifyoutube.com/vVAYk8.gif

No doubt, total jaw dropper when you first se that scene. It could be cars or motorbikes and it would be the same in many ways. Very cinematic to be sure.

[maj]

Opening scene from 12 O’Clock High.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaTnqdeDrjE

[oddsaabs]

No doubt, total jaw dropper when you first se that scene. It could be cars or motorbikes and it would be the same in many ways. Very cinematic to be sure.

She did a great job for sure, but lets not forget who taugt her to do that. Bill Woodull of Campagnolo, Specialized, and USCF tech support fame was the technical adviser on that film. He's responsible for helping to keep it authentic and real(ish).

https://www.facebook.com/groups/61477030188/

P.S. I'm bias. He was like a godfather to me. ;-)

[Waldo62]

The Triplets of Belleville aka Belleville Rendezvous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2ztLTN503Y

[azrider]

Bill Woodull of Campagnolo, Specialized, and USCF tech support fame was the technical adviser on that film. He's responsible for helping to keep it authentic and real(ish).

P.S. I'm bias. He was like a godfather to me. ;-)

so much awesomeness in this pic..........

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIgU5igWoAAtZja.jpg

[rzthomas]

n/m

[9tubes]

when rae dong chong executes a perfect roadside wheelchange -- LIKE A BOSS!

https://youtu.be/sA3DZ0v9Kw8?t=22

https://share.gifyoutube.com/vVAYk8.gif

No doubt, total jaw dropper when you first se that scene. It could be cars or motorbikes and it would be the same in many ways. Very cinematic to be sure.

In an earlier take of that scene she tossed the old wheel to the left just as the peloton passed. The makeup crew didn't have to create artificial road rash on the riders after that. Chong said she was so embarrassed that she had a hard time facing the riders who went down.

[b33]

Lot of cool in this - Robert Duvall and Richard Harris in "Wrestling Ernest Hemingway"

[zennmotion]

Jacques Tati is an old school comic genius, and the "bicycle autoride" scene in Mr. Hulot's Holiday is one of my favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXhRPnh1JSU

And here's another one where he demonstrates how to ride in traffic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZMCUiSPRFo

And another that's inspiration for Team US Postal...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06u0NQ9Vk_o

[fiamme red]

"Bicycle Day" in New York's Central Park in Cops and Robbers from 1973. I can't find a YouTube clip, sorry.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069919/

[charliedid]

Jacques Tati is an old school comic genius, and the "bicycle autoride" scene in Mr. Hulot's Holiday is one of my favorites.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXhRPnh1JSU

And here's another one where he demonstrates how to ride in traffic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZMCUiSPRFo

And another that's inspiration for Team US Postal...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06u0NQ9Vk_o

I really should get around to watching those movies.