Wednesday, September 19, 2007

I watched the"Flying Scotsman" last night, the Graeme Obree story.
There was a write up in I think in "Bike" mag a few years ago and I was so taken, the pic I tore out of the mag of him leaning over one of his hand made bikes and hand made light, sort of looks like a spot light, still remains on the refrigerator.
In September I saw that there was a book out about him and I ordered it, Amazon gave me an expected delivery in November-?-.Then the movie caught my eye, an I.F.C flick, was terrified of being disappointed and was not.
Fastest man on earth,designs and builds his own bikes and rides his own way, tearing down all walls of "how it should be done"

2 Comments:

Blogger Blue-eyed Devil said...

Gotta see that flick. I, too, read that article and was intrigued. Blue-collar attitude kicks ass on the status quo--my kind of story. I'm worried that the actor in the leading role is a little to soft-looking and scrubbed up to pull of Obree, but I'll give it a chance and see.

Good to ride with you again yesterday. The commute ride in this morning was painful, ha.

10:25 AM

 
Blogger Tubeular Visions said...

I am envious I wish I could bike it to work, yesterday was fun,
yeah your right a bit soft but could be worse definetly check it out.
I want to watch it again with the captions on, hard to understand that sluring wash of words,
that makes it more authentic though.

7:34 AM

 

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