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  1. chdot
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    Today, 20:30 on BBC Four

    Clare Balding sets out on a two-wheel odyssey to re-discover Britain from the saddle of a touring cycle.
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t6yhb

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    Today, 21:00 on BBC Four

    Author Rob Penn travels around the world collecting handbuilt parts for his dream bicycle and charts the social history of one of mankind's greatest inventions.

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t6ylx

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    Today, 22:00 on BBC Four
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    Death on the Mountain is the story of Britain's greatest cyclist, Tom Simpson

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074rgb

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    Today, 23:00 on BBC Four

    One of the most important inventions of all time, the improvements made by the Edwardians meant the bicycle

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007gmbt

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    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. cb
    Member

    Belleville Rendez-Vous tonight, BBC4 @ 22:30.

    Also some late night repeats of some of Tuesday's programmes.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. Greenroofer
    Member

    I enjoyed the Rob Penn programme as he travelled the world looking for the bits for his £4,500 bike.

    The odd thing is that before I started following this forum, I would have thought this was a ludicrous amount to spend on a bicycle, but now it seems a bit steep, but not actually totally unreasonable...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. Stepdoh
    Member

    I only recently found out that Monsieur Chomet of Bellville Rendez-Vous fame is an Edinburgher at the moment...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  5. chdot
    Admin

    "before I started following this forum, I would have thought this was a ludicrous amount to spend on a bicycle"

    Well as long as you are happy with that change of view.

    I'm surprised no-one has started a thread to debate his choice of style/frame/components.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  6. wee folding bike
    Member

    Well I would quibble with some of it.

    If you're going to put a Brooks on a racing bike at that price why didn't he get a lighter one for another £70?

    I hope the wheel builder was badly edited.

    He skipped past MacMillan's bike and onto the French.

    No matter what he says he isn't going to ride that bike every day. When I used one like that I put it away from the end of September to late April.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  7. gembo
    Member

    @stepdoh - Chomet finished THe Illusionist in Scotland and has now moved to SOuth of France where he thinks the weather is better than North BErwick for picnics

    Posted 13 years ago #

  8. Stepdoh
    Member

    Ahh, so was he just taking in the ambience while making the movie (by the sounds of it he was unimpressed with the animation talent up here too. :S )

    Posted 13 years ago #

  9. gembo
    Member

    Took a long time to draw it - 5 years?? That might be exaggeration. All frames by hand. I think the producers were Scottish but presumably there is not a lot of money in the hand drawn taking 5 years to complete the movie animation game these days so time to move on. I thought his view of Oban was romantic and inaccurate but on a recent trip where I met a guy from sweden who had flown over that day with his bike, the train station ended up exactly where he put it.

    This Swedish guy left Sweden in the morning and was in Oban for bedtime, actually he got off at Taynuilt and put a balaclava on as he got on the bike and set off to wild camp. Then it was ferry to Barra (still bad as they are using the wee Millport Ferry so takes 7 hours and if any waves everybody is sick). From Barra he was cycling to Callanish.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  10. chdot
    Admin

    The book of the TV programme

    http://www.copenhagenize.com/2010/08/its-all-about-bike-robert-penn.html

    Posted 13 years ago #

  11. gembo
    Member

    I was given the book, he writes quite well. If I had a bike like that I wouldn't go out on it unless nice and dry and clean on the roads. No mudguards either.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  12. kaputnik
    Moderator

    not an unfashionable hybrid / mountain bike in sight for the Particular Books team!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  13. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Also a couple of pages in this month's Cycling Plus. Anyone would think he had a book out...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  14. DaveC
    Member

    I watched the Clare ballding program. She said she was cycling on the authors bike but I was a little dismayed when she then clattered and bashed the bike at every opportunity.

    Posted 13 years ago #

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