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It takes a fierce three-day bicycle race up in the mountains to reunite two formerly feuding brothers in this film written by Steve Tesich, the creator of another cycle movie, 1979’s Breaking Away. This film will please the cycling lovers out there, as it includes actual footage taken from the famous Coors International Bicycle Classic, held in the Colorado Rockies. The plot revolves around the suspicion that one of the two brothers — either the pragmatic sports doctor Marcus (Kevin Costner) or the impudent, driven David (David Marshall Grant) — is likely afflicted with an inherited tendency toward cerebral aneurysms. ~ All Movie Guide

Jack Casey (Kevin Bacon) is a stock market dynamo — until one day when he makes a decision that completely destroys his professional prospects. His next gig? He becomes a New York City bike messenger and soon falls for a colleague, Terri (Jami Gertz). Buoyed by love, Casey wants to put his life back on track … but can he?

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After graduating from high school, Dave Stohler (Dennis Christopher) dreams of becoming a champion bicyclist. Posing as an exchange student to mask his working-class roots, he frustrates his parents (Paul Dooley and Barbara Barrie) and charms a local college girl (Robyn Douglass). Peter Yates’s Oscar-winning coming-of-age drama culminates when Dave gets a chance to leave his past behind and race against the Italian riders he worships.

Acclaimed as perhaps the most inventive and well-crafted animated feature ever, The Triplets of Belleville has quite a reputation to uphold. As the story goes, a boy named Champion goes to live with his grandma who encourages his love of cycling. She pushes him to enter the Tour de France once he’s of age, unwittingly enabling an evil plan by the French mafia to kidnap him. Hot on his trail, Grandma and her faithful pooch encounter some eccentric ’30s film sirens who aid their search. Can her new friends and Bruno’s nose help her find Champion?

The Flying Scotsman is a true story based on the inspirational and remarkable Scottish cyclist, Graeme Obree. In 1993, this unemployed amateur cyclist broke the world one-hour record on a bike of his own revolutionary design, which he constructed out of scrap metal and parts of a washing machine. Shortly after Graeme broke the record, he lost his world title when another cyclist beat his time. This only served to motivate Graeme to break the record again, while also battling mental illness. If you have not seen this movie yet I suggest you rent it today: