Tag: Documentary
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The 27 Best Cycling Documentaries You Should Watch
COVID-19 is keeping a lot of us indoors. The boredom of indoor training in addition to every bike race being cancelled is a real downer, especially during what is normally one of the best times of the year to be a cycling fan. Despite there being no spring classics, you can brighten your Zwifting or…
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Video: Fixed Gear Everesting
I’ll be honest, Everesting sounds like a nightmare. Everesting on a fixie though, that sounds like straight up hell. Denver based cyclist Charli Mandel had the insane idea to do the world’s first track bike Everesting last May. At the same time, Charli was in the process of transitioning MtF, as it that wasn’t enough…
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Video: First trailer for Lance Armstrong documentary ‘LANCE’
Lance Armstrong says he’ll finally “speak his truth” in the first trailer for the documentary LANCE which will air in two parts on ESPN. Ya, that made me chuckle. The first installment is dropping on May 24th, with the second following a week later. The film is based on a set of interviews Marina Zenovich conducted with Armstrong,…
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Video: The Impossible Route – Worlds Hardest Gravel Climb
The Vegan Cyclist takes on the gravel road which winds its way to the top of Mauna Kea, the world’s largest volcano. The paved climb up Mauna Kea is perhaps the hardest climb that can be conquered by bike climbing from sea level to 13,803 feet in one go. But on the other side of…
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Video: GT Bicycles “Full Travel” – The Story of GT’s Suspension Development
Mountain bike suspension has come a long ways over the past 30 years. GT Bicycles has documented its journey in a documentary, “Full Travel: GT’s Suspension Development Story.” The film by Pipeline Digital Media, Full Travel is the work of filmmakers Todd Huffman and Don Hoffman, who were both employed by GT in the 1990’s.…
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A Father and Daughter’s Incredible Bikepacking Trip Through the Himalayas
This is a fantastic video documenting a father and daughter bikepacking trip through the Himalayas. Over 21 days, the pair covered 1,250km, through illness, extreme winds, and over rough terrain and high altitudes they prevailed and shared a very memorable journey. In late 2018, father-daughter duo, Jess & Peter Cappendell decided to bike tour 1250…
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The Need For Speed 1993/1994 NYC Bike Messenger Documentary
Steve the Greek, Vicki Butterfly, Bill the Silverfox and the X-Men are part of the hippest New York sub-culture, the Bicycle messenger. The Need for Speed follows this group of urban outlaws as they hold on to cars, slide through dangerous traffic and push pedestrians out of the way, just to make their deliveries on…
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Tour of Ara
The Tour of Ara, named for the Southern Hemisphere constellation of Ara, was a prestige race ridden mostly on South African-built steel racing bicycles in the proud tradition of the early Italian multi-day stage races. For it’s five year duration, the Tour followed a tough dirt-road route over six days through the beautiful but harsh…
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Strong Frames Under the Big Sky
Under the Big Sky is a new documentary series from The Montana Television Network, the goal is to showcase the interesting people, businesses and stories that are found under the Big Sky. Carl Strong’s earliest memories all center around bicycles. In Seattle, he raced BMX bikes through his childhood and into college at MSU Bozeman,…
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Andy Schleck: 2010 Tour de France is ‘bullsh**t’
In a television documentary with Sporza in Belgium, Andy Schleck called being retrospectively awarded the yellow jersey in the 2010 Tour de France following Alberto Contador’s doping results ‘bullshit’. Schleck finished the 2010 Tour second, 39 seconds back on Contador, but was eventually awarded the title in 2012 after Contador was sanctioned for a failed…
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Ride To Extraordinary – The TNGA
Ride To Extraordinary is a new on-demand documentary series. Season #1 focuses on the TNGA (The Trans North Georgia Adventure). TNGA is more than a bikepacking race. It’s a test of will and endurance. It’s 357 miles filled with more than 50,000 feet of grueling climbs, wicked downhills, river crossings, hike-a-bikes, wild bears, boars, snakes…
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Ice & Palms: Crossing the alps by ski and bike
This is a wild adventure, six weeks of bikepacking and skiing from Germany all the way to the beach in Nice. Skiers Jochen Mesle and Max Kroneck start their biggest and most extraordinary ski tour so far. Their mission: Bikepacking across the alps and skiing some iconic mountains along the way – no motor allowed!…
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The Bikes of Wrath
Want to suffer like Steinbeck? Five Australians dive deep into the heart of America. “The Bikes of Wrath” feature film showed publicly for the first time this past April at Five Point Adventure Film Festival in Carbondale, Colorado. The movie follows five Australians as they attempt to cycle 30 days for 1,600 miles from Sallisaw,…
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Wild Horses, The Silk Road Mountain Race Documentary
Wild Horses is a look at the first year of the Silk Road Mountain Race, an absolutely brutal (26,000m of climbing), long distance (1670km), self-supported bikepacking race with very little tarmac that follows the trading route. The clock never stops and there are no prizes. What an incredible adventure. We are extremely glad to announce…
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American Crit
Attack Pictures brings us this 34-minute documentary on crit racing, aptly titled American Crit: American Crit is a loud, visceral look at the sport of criterium racing as seen through the eyes of a first-year team. It’s a love letter to one of the most dangerous and beautiful forms of bike racing in the world.…