Your favourite cycling movies

Jez · #1 (**permalink**) 29-12-2009, 10:30 PM

I don't own many and not all based on cycling but mine are Belle Ville Rendezvous, The Flying Scotsman (though no patch on the autobiography) and ET

!If you have any you are willing to share for further interest please post- Cheers

Dutchess · #2 (**permalink**) 30-12-2009, 03:13 AM

Rather a specialist area, methinks, Jez

!!

However, that said, I am trying to recall a 60s/70s film, where two Brit girls are lost in France, one gets attacked (killed?) on a long lonely road and I think they were on bicycles?

This is annoying me now, and would be grateful for anyone to put me out of my misery

D.

loripo · #3 (**permalink**) 30-12-2009, 08:51 AM

There's Les Bicyclettes de Belsize (68) but that's a romance. Clips on Youtube.

Dutchess · #4 (**permalink**) 30-12-2009, 04:10 PM

Thanks, Lori

Nope, that wasn't it!

But it's been bugging me and have tracked it down.

"And Soon The Darkness" it is called

A 70's Brit-chiller starring Michele Dotrice. Certain scenes from the rather eery movie have stuck in my mind, so the film made an impact on me. Also, the vast loneliness of the French countryside in summertime comes to mind whenever I think of it.

"Two young British nurses spend their holiday bicycling through rural France, unaware that another tourist girl was brutally slain in the same region two years earlier and unaware that they're being targeted by the same fiendish rape-killer who's still at large in the area."

So there you go, Jez! (Although my nomination may well put people off taking a cycling holiday

)

D.

loripo · #5 (**permalink**) 30-12-2009, 05:15 PM

This might cheer them up though

google - youtube muppets on bicycles

SusieBee · #6 (**permalink**) 30-12-2009, 05:24 PM

Fab Lori, love it!

YouTube - Muppet Bikes

I couldn't think of any!

Does Easy Rider count!

loripo · #7 (**permalink**) 31-12-2009, 07:36 AM

How about this one then...

E.T.

YouTube - ET - Bike Scene (1982)

The Best Bit!

Jez · #8 (**permalink**) 31-12-2009, 06:47 PM

Thanks all for searching!

The Muppet Capers Is definitely going on my Amazon wishlist!!! I also want a pair of handle bars like Miss Piggy has on her bike lol as I have upturned drop bars but these look far more elegant

Jez · #9 (**permalink**) 01-01-2010, 12:06 AM

It's just gone 1am 2010 and I'm balancing upon the computer chair like kermit I kid you not! No highway code needed here

loripo · #10 (**permalink**) 01-01-2010, 08:12 AM

I thought I'd add the clip of the Bicyclettes de Belsize as its quite good and I really like his bike - I don't remember them from 1968 though?
Quite a funny bus stop scene

YouTube - Les Bicyclettes de Belsize - 1968