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  1. Original post
    Hippy
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    If anyone was silly enough to be awake at 1-2am this morning (last night?) you might have seen this
    movie with Kevin Bacon working as a NYC courier after losing his job as a stock broker. Has anyone
    seen this?

    There was some nice tricks in there with Bacon(?) riding backwards on his fixie whilst the bars spun
    around rapidly. This might have been staged but it looked real.

    There were also guys doing flatland bmx-style tricks and trials moves (like backhops) on fixed-gear
    road bikes!!!! Some crazy stuff in there... I'm totally jealous of their skills.

    Cool track session last night too... thanks Rowan!

    hippy "Caffeine.. IV... stat!"

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  2. Nickzx6r
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    hippy said:

    If anyone was silly enough to be awake at 1-2am this morning (last night?) you might have seen
    this movie with Kevin Bacon working as a NYC courier after losing his job as a stock broker. Has
    anyone seen this?

    Quoted message said:

    There was some nice tricks in there with Bacon(?) riding backwards on his fixie whilst the bars
    spun around rapidly. This might have been staged but it looked real.

    Quoted message said:

    There were also guys doing flatland bmx-style tricks and trials moves (like backhops) on fixed-
    gear road bikes!!!! Some crazy stuff in there... I'm totally jealous of their skills.

    Quoted message said:

    Cool track session last night too... thanks Rowan!

    Quoted message said:

    hippy "Caffeine.. IV... stat!"

    I must confess...I taped it. Just so I can fast forward through the crappy bits. According to most
    reviews, there are plenty of those 🙂

    Besides it on right after TDU.

    --
    Nick

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  3. Hippy
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    "NickZX6R" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    I must confess...I taped it. Just so I can fast forward through the crappy bits. According to most
    reviews, there are plenty of those 🙂

    Well, I taped it as well. Unfortunately, I have a habit of seeing something interesting and watching
    it anyway, so I watched it through. I might just dump the good bits to computer so I can watch the
    tricky riding when I want and not have to FF through the good guy vs. bad guy stuff...

    Quoted message said:

    Besides it on right after TDU.

    Yep.. go aussies!

    hippy

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  4. Nickzx6r
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    hippy said:

    "NickZX6R" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    I must confess...I taped it. Just so I can fast forward through the crappy bits. According to
    most reviews, there are plenty of those 🙂

    Quoted message said:

    Well, I taped it as well. Unfortunately, I have a habit of seeing something interesting and
    watching it anyway, so I watched it through. I might just dump the good bits to computer so I can
    watch the tricky riding when I want and not have to FF through the good guy vs. bad guy stuff...

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Besides it on right after TDU.

    Quoted message said:

    Yep.. go aussies!

    Quoted message said:

    hippy

    Well I just watched it. What an appalling soundtrack 🙂

    Still..wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

    --
    Nick

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  5. gescom
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    Yeah, it was on after the TDU highlights. Samuel L Jackson was pretty fast at the start 🙂, and you gotta love those down tube shifters!

    The stunts were pretty crazy although I stopped watching it after SLJ died. What happened in the end? (let me guess, Kb and Terry kill the 'bad guy' right?)

    As for the TDU the gravel road was pretty bad and those road tires puncture easily. Maybe dirt road sections should be a feature of the race like the cobblestones are in Paris to Roubaix.

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  6. Nickzx6r
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    gescom said:

    Yeah, it was on after the TDU highlights. Samuel L Jackson was pretty fast at the start 🙂, and
    you gotta love those down tube shifters!

    Quoted message said:

    The stunts were pretty crazy although I stopped watching it after SLJ died. What happened in the
    end? (let me guess, Kb and Terry kill the 'bad guy' right?)

    Or Lawrence Fishburne even?

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    Nick

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  7. Hippy
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    "gescom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    "]news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    Yeah, it was on after the TDU highlights. Samuel L Jackson was pretty


    fast at the start 🙂, and you gotta love those down tube shifters!

    Actually, that was Nelson Vails at the start.

    Quoted message said:

    The stunts were pretty crazy although I stopped watching it after SLJ died. What happened in the
    end? (let me guess, Kb and Terry kill the 'bad guy' right?)

    The courier actor that died (hit the taxi) was Laurence Fishburne.

    Quoted message said:

    As for the TDU the gravel road was pretty bad and those road tires puncture easily. Maybe dirt
    road sections should be a feature of the race like the cobblestones are in Paris to Roubaix.

    Myself and a mate were talking about the possibilities of running something like this when we were
    in Mildura - as we hooned along some "off-road" roads. Same deal as Paris-Roubaix we were thinking,
    but an Aussie version. Just for something different to shake da bones down! So, sponsors anyone? :-)

    hippy

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  8. gescom
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    Oops, it was on late ok 😉 . Looked up Lawrence Fishburne and he played the character Morpheus in the Matrix movies http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000401/.

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  9. Daniel Searson
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    NickZX6R said:
    hippy said:

    If anyone was silly enough to be awake at 1-2am this morning (last night?) you might have seen
    this movie with Kevin Bacon working as a NYC courier after losing his job as a stock broker. Has
    anyone seen this?

    Quoted message said:

    There was some nice tricks in there with Bacon(?) riding backwards on his fixie whilst the bars
    spun around rapidly. This might have been staged but it looked real.

    Quoted message said:

    There were also guys doing flatland bmx-style tricks and trials moves (like backhops) on fixed-
    gear road bikes!!!! Some crazy stuff in there... I'm totally jealous of their skills.

    Quoted message said:

    Cool track session last night too... thanks Rowan!

    Quoted message said:

    hippy "Caffeine.. IV... stat!"

    I must confess...I taped it. Just so I can fast forward through the crappy bits. According to most
    reviews, there are plenty of those 🙂

    Besides it on right after TDU.

    I taped it too but I screwed up the programming on the VCR and didn't get anything after he made the
    bad guy drive his car off a bridge. Oh well, I assume that all ended happily and he got the girl.

    (in South Australia we get the TDU highlights at 7pm so we dont have to wait around till midnight to
    get them!)

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  10. Dave
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    hippy said:

    If anyone was silly enough to be awake at 1-2am this morning (last night?) you might have seen
    this movie with Kevin Bacon working as a NYC courier after losing his job as a stock broker. Has
    anyone seen this?

    There was some nice tricks in there with Bacon(?) riding backwards on his fixie whilst the bars
    spun around rapidly. This might have been staged but it looked real.

    There were also guys doing flatland bmx-style tricks and trials moves (like backhops) on fixed-
    gear road bikes!!!! Some crazy stuff in there... I'm totally jealous of their skills.

    Cool track session last night too... thanks Rowan!

    hippy "Caffeine.. IV... stat!"


    Yeah I have that somewhere

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