Cycling on TV tonight... BBC4 from 8:30pm

If you're stuck indoors with nothing better to do tonight...

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Bikes on the BBC tonight
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Chris Sidwells
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There's good news if you are already suffering withdrawl symptoms from no Tour de France on the TV.

As part of its Call of the Wild series, BBC 4 are showing three cycling films tonight (Tuesday, July 27). They kick off at nine o'clock with 'Ride of My Life: The Story of the Bicycle', in which author Rob Penn travels the world collecting parts to create his ideal handbuilt bike.

Next up at 10 pm is 'Death on the Mountain', the story of the only British elite world road race champion, Tom Simpson's death during the 1967 Tour de France. And the evening rounds off at 11 pm with 'Thoroughly Modern Machine', part of a series that examines Edwardian technology, tonight's episode looks at the role of the bike in transport and social mobility.

The cycling them continues on BBC 4 tomorrow, Wednesday (July 28), with a screening of the animated movie, Belleville Rendezvous, set in the fifities it's about a bike mad French youth's adventure in taking part in the Tour de France.

Don't forget Clare Balding cycling around Britain before all these at 8.30pm. Same channel: BBC4

I shan't be watching as I'll be doing a hardcore training regime