British Cycling Videos

Men's keirin from Revolution 29 last weekend. Bit of a weird race, this one, as the field looks well beaten by Kenny before Hoy destroys him right at the end...


British track national championship highlight. How fast is that men's team sprint!?!?


Halo British Downhill series, round 5. I would definitely die trying something like this.

Thanks to mindtron for the heads-up. Check out more videos on British Cycling's Vimeo page here.

This Is Where I'm From

Charge Bikes video featuring Juliet Elliott in Dublin, Ireland. Some lovely shots of the city centre, Windmill Lane (where I had a piece up back in the day), St. Stephen's Green, Moore Street, Temple Bar, the Phoenix Park, and the oul' Dublin and Wicklah Mountains. I miss home. Two comments, however: one, going as fast as possible so you sail over steps reminds me of when I was a kid and thought that that was how you ollied, and two, there's no way she tasted that Guinness at the end.

Seen over at Zlog.

Coast No Coast

Cool vid. Check out the details here.

Originally seen on Tracko!

Bicycle Film Festival!

The Bicycle Film Festival is extending it's submission deadline to March 27th- so don't miss an opportunity to get your film in the festival! Submit now through the BFF website.


Brendt and the worldwide BFF team will be celebrating their 10th anniversary this year! So you can surely expect this to be the biggest and best festival yet. Be sure to go ahead and make your arrangements for getting to NYC June 16-20. If you've never been before, this is definitely the one to be a part of- and if you have been before, you already know!

And if you haven't already heard, this year BFF is teaming up with Defgrip for the BMX program:

Defgrip Presents the BMX shorts at the 2010 Bicycle Film Festival from Defgrip on Vimeo.

More info here and of course here.

Did I win?

Amazing.

From Keirin Culture

Beauty and the Bike

Beauty and the Bike is a great film/book/project from the UK about encouraging young women to ride bikes more. Focusing initially on why British girls give up cycling once they reach a certain age, the film makes the case that bad infrastructure (lack of cycle lanes) and certain cultural notions (that bikes are for kids and men, not women; that roads are for cars and trucks, not bikes) are preventing young women from experiencing the fun and freedom that cycling can give. Taking their cue from the more cycle-friendly cities of mainland Europe, the project organisers have a two pronged approach to making cycling more appealing to young British women: fix the infrastructure to make cycling safer and less stressful, and combat the idea that young women can't or shouldn't be interested in bikes.

Of course, in many ways, changing the physical infrastructure of a town or city to facilitate cycling is much, much easier than changing people's cultural notions about women on bikes. Harass your town council enough and they'll probably put down a cycle lane or two, but try to convince people that women should be riding bikes more, that's a different story. However, by making cycling accessible, stylish and fun, the organisers of Beauty and the Bike show that it is possible to convince young women that they belong on bikes as much as anyone.

Now, we're not talking about completely subverting gender paradigms here. It's very much about making women on bikes feel attractive in relatively normative ways. However, it is, I think, an important first step to show young women that they can "look good" and ride bikes at the same time. After all, in the 19th century the very idea of women on bikes was revolutionary, because cycling constituted a physical activity (the sovereign sphere of men) felt to give women too much independence (through mobility). Thus a whole range of cultural norms were conjured up that attempted to curtail female bike riding by suggesting that the activity was undignified at best, unladylike at worst. Are these cultural norms, formulated in the repressive era of Victorian sexuality, the root cause of the reluctance of young women in Britain today to ride bikes? Maybe. Are the people behind Beauty and the Bike directly challenging the notions of femininity and beauty that undergird society more generally? Maybe not. But, by making cycling appealing to young women in 2010, they facilitate something that might be every bit as revolutionary as it was in 1899. As the American civil rights leader Susan B. Anthony said, "I think [the bicycle] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance."

More details about Beauty and the Bike here.

Safari London

I'm living in London right now, Camberwell to be exact, so I was particularly into this little video from Rick and Roddy, with all its shots of places south of the Thames. It's really, really nice looking, filmed on a homemade rig and everything. It's well peng! Thanks to Rick for the email.

incase you missed it...

Tracko spotted this brilliant video from Manukau Velodrome in New Zealand.

Manukau Velodrome, New Zealand from sean wallace on Vimeo.

Building a Colnago EPS

Saw this video over at Laekhouse this morning. Pretty neat.

Who knew Fat Joe and Michael Mcdonald were the ones cranking out those $5k frames?

Revival Premiere at Boulder Indoor Cycling

If I was in the area, I'd go to this just to see what Boulder Indoor Cycling is actually like. I mean, I've posted about the place before, and it looks pretty mental, so I'd love to see it in person. Plus, Revival looks decent as far as trick vids go (and they used Fuck Buttons in the trailer, so there's that). I would like to see more Lucas Brunelle-style city race footage in these vids though. Hammering along a country road is grand and all, but hammering through downtown traffic is another. Anyway, if you're in Boulder, head over to watch the vid and maybe ride the track this weekend. Details here.

Nice find!

Ah the glory days of endorsements...


Spotted by Tracko!

World Championships Videos

Not a lot on the internet yet, but check these out:

Baugé and Awang's 2nd match sprint:


Baugé and Awang's 3rd match sprint, for the men's gold:


Pendleton and Kanis' 3rd match sprint, for the women's gold:


Lithuania's Simona Krupeckaite getting the gold and setting a new 500m women's time trial world record:


France versus Britain in the men's team sprint:


Women's keirin final:


Men's keirin final:


That's your lot!