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

The reason I posted it in the Brum section is because there might be other Brummies who might not look at the rest of the forum.

I rarely ever look at any thread that isn't in the Brum section myself

That's what I thought when I saw the reply post... there's a metric shit-ton of us here that only/mainly read the BHX pages.

Is Ride of my Life a 2 parter? I missed it the other day so checked the guide to record it, it's showing up 3 times but im unsure if it's a single episode or series?

Sorry didn't check the location.

I love Belleville Rendezvous. Well worth watching.

ride of my life was good - sure the guy's a bit of a nob (carbon bars on a 'bike for life' with steel frame?) but it was a really good overview considering it was crammed into 60 minutes.

i really loved the trip to the campag factory though - seemed like a ghost town! the guys record groupset will probably last forever, because he won't be able to get any miles on it due to waiting for parts for the 'rebuildable' shifters!

Hearing Tom Simpson's voice and seeing him moving was novel for me. Quite strange as I've only ever read about him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00t6ylx/Ride_of_My_Life_The_Story_of_the_Bicycle/

No one tell hippy what he says at 7:50 ... Conti's have an unrivalled reputation apparently...

He names almost all the components of the bike he's building - Rourke, Brooks, Campag, Cinelli, & Chris King all get their name checks (and visited by him). His wheelbuilder was a legendary guy called Gravy in Americaland. We see him telling us all about wheelbuilding ... but fails to mention the Royce/DT/spokes components, or that they're not American but European. Weird. Maybe they thought talking about hubs would be weird. But for me they're possibly the most beautiful things on a bicycle.

Agreed.

When was the programme about Tom Simpson aired?

Is it that fucking hard to read the 1st post?

He names almost all the components of the bike he's building - Rourke, Brooks, Campag, Cinelli, & Chris King all get their name checks (and visited by him). His wheelbuilder was a legendary guy called Gravy in Americaland. We see him telling us all about wheelbuilding ... but fails to mention the Royce/DT/spokes components, or that they're not American but European. Weird. Maybe they thought talking about hubs would be weird. But for me they're possibly the most beautiful things on a bicycle.

Yeah but if you had a chance to blow the budget on visiting Chris King and whoever else in the States and Campag in Italy, would you really want to go and visit Royce in Wales?

Is it that fucking hard to read the 1st post?

Was it that fucking hard for you to resist typing that dickhead reply?

When was the programme about Tom Simpson aired?

It was originally aired in 2006 I think

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Anyone see Doug Pinkerton?

Was it that fucking hard for you to resist typing that dickhead reply?

What you gonna do about it?

Dude, Thom's one of the good guys, you're just coming across as an ITG

Damn it was a Royce?! I was trying to hunt down all the bits he had on his bike online (procrastination) and wasn't quite sure what hubs they were - went on that gravy guys website and tried all the brands he said he used, I thought they were white industries!ha
Didnt find out what seatpost he had either. Could he have gone for a quill stem with the Rourke frame? or maybe not because of the carbon front fork?
His colour choice imo let the whole bike down!

Dude, Thom's one of the good guys, you're just coming across as an ITG

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Well I'd love to stop and chat but I have a Macramé class to attend before sleeping with 10 prostitutes.

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