Rent On Yer Bike (1983)

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3h 56min
Rent On Yer Bike (aka On Yer Bike: A History of Cycling on Film) Online DVD & Blu-ray Rental
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Synopsis:
This two-disc collection provides a fascinating portrait of the British cycling experience on film featuring entertaining short dramas, animations, advertisements, newsreel items, public information films, and the exciting Children's Film Foundation adventure 'Skid Kids'. From nineteenth-century women elegantly displaying their proficiency to the cut-throat 1928 Olympic Trials at the Herne Hill Velodrome and careless 1980s BMX kids meeting untimely ends, the films on this set offer up a century of cycling in Britain, celebrating classic brands such as Raleigh, Hercules, Moulton, Humber, Rudge and Witcomb.
Actors:
Hugh Antram, , Rufus Bradley, Haydon Brunsdon, , , Ron Fuller, Dave Gardiner, Dave Gillam, Glen Goring, , , Nadia Mackay, Mike Mackmin, Paul May, Francis Mutimer, John Pratt, Sid Sevorgen, , Rita Carter
Directors:
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Producers:
Pat Buse, Nicholas Mullane, Gilbert Church, Richard Massingham
Narrated By:
Rita Carter
Writers:
David Boulton, Frank Prendergast, Alan Ross, Jack Howells
Aka:
On Yer Bike: A History of Cycling on Film
Studio:
BFI Video
Genres:
Children & Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sports & Sport Films, TV Comedies, TV Documentaries, TV Dramas
Collections:
Top 10 Cycling Films
BBFC:
Release Date:
22/06/2015
Run Time:
236 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles:
None
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
Colour:
Colour and B & W
Disc 1:
This disc includes the following shorts:
- Lady Cyclists (1899)
- Race for the Muratti Cup at Manchester Wheelers' Annual Meet (Extract) (1901)
- Manchester and Salford's Harriers Procession (Extract) (1901)
- Rudge Whitworth: Britain's Best Bicycle (1902)
- Flying the Foam and Some Fancy Diving (1906)
- Fat Man on a Bicycle (Fragment) (1914)
- National Bicycle Week Begins (1923)
- Olympic Trials (1928)
- Cycling the Channel (1929)
- Women Wheelers (1929)
- From Acorn to Oak (1938)
- Cinema Adverts for Humber, Raleigh, Rudge (1938)
- Tom's Ride (1944)
- How a Bicycle Is Made (1945)
- Stringing Along (1947)
- The Ballad of the Battered Bicycle (1947)
- Pedal Cyclists (1947)
- Good Cycles Deserve Good Riders (1950)
- Skid Kids (1953)
Disc 2:
This disc includes the following shorts:
- Cyclists' Special (1955)
- Hercules: Lion Cubs (1956)
- Cyclists Abroad (1957)
- Cycling Proficiency Scheme: Father and Son (1959)
- Riding on Air (1959)
- The Racing Cyclist (1966)
- The Moulton Bicycle (1972)
- Free Wheeling (1979)
- It's a Bike (1983)
- Cyclist Turning Right (1983)

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Angels in Suburbia - On Yer Bike review by CH

Spoiler Alert
16/06/2020

On the face of it, this is a compilation for geeks. It does not take long to realise that here is something for the rest of us, as well as those gripped by a fascination for the evolution of bicycle design since the late-nineteenth century, when the opening short shows women taking to to the road in perilously long whites dresses which are sure to crease as they drag against the chain. Safety is a recurrent feature of these diverse films, in two of which - in one case, after hanging onto the back of a truck for easy speed - the bicycle turns ghostly white and voyages further on: through the Hereafter.

Which is a far cry from Herne Hill, which once had a well-known cycling track.

Children, naturally, surface in these films, such as Tom's Ride, in which a boy and girl discover the virtue of honesty. Meanwhile, perhaps best of all is The Ballad of the Battered Bicycle, narrated in rough effective verse by Stanley Holloway who doubles in rôles as a fairground hawker and a Judge who delivers judgment on the boy who has spurned the Highway Code.

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