This month’s poll question on Twitter and Facebook was about the Greatest Cycling Movies of All Time. Here is the collective wisdom of social media in action…

• jepgraham bmx bandits
• tobyhillman belleville rendezvous, genius if not completely inspiring.
• orr_james hell on wheels. It documents team telekom during the tour de france. Brilliant
• rideearthtom Breaking Away is a great cycling movie!
• PhilJones40 It can only be The Flying Scotsman featuring @GraemeObree, book is even better.
• Orbitalearth Not sure if it can be classed as a cycling movie but it starts on a bike! 127 Hours
• NattySupertramp The only film I know of is the Bicycle Thieves. It’s about an italian father and son looking for their stolen bicycle.
• fixie_bot try MASH a film about the fixed gear scene in San Fransico.
• paulhensey e.t?
• RichStwits @RideTheDivide is pretty inspirational stuff.
• DanielMartinAdv some good docos: http://bit.ly/d52cdS
• stuwitterer Maybe a docufilm rather than a movie but great none the less http://www.ridethedividemovie.com
• piemanpete Breaking Away – http://imdb.to/9VruAt

And to show that Facebook is not yet dead, there were plenty of offerings from there as well:

• Martin Radoczi American Flyers is about all i can think of.

• Neil Garrity Breaking Away, 1979. Certainly enjoyed it as a youngster!

• Will Hodson Breaking Away, The Flying Scotsman and I can show you some footage of my fancy dress ride as a gladiator through France any time you want too……
• Giles P Croft ‎+1 for Flying Scotsman. But the best cycling film is Hollentour (Hell on Wheels). Beautifully filmed, awesome soundtrack, a real insight into suffering at the TdF.
• Johnny Hall Chasing Legends
• Will Hodson Just googled it and A Sunday in Hell and Overcoming are highly rated too…..whole of Sunday in Hell is on youtube if u got a spare hour and a half….
• Craig Northam ‎’Belleville Rendevous’ (The Triplets of Belleville) for a rather different take on the “cycling film” genre!
• Dave McFadden Race across the sky
• Ellen Hadley Take a Seat (http://www.takeaseat.org/)
• Roro Kilduff ROAM (for offroad)

• Giles P Croft Will, Sunday in Hell is very much a cycling anorak’s documentary (I fall into this category). Interesting, but not hugely inspiring. Overcoming is excellent – it’s got Jens Voigt in it after all – but is very much of its time. A pre-ban Basso vs. a rampaging Armstrong, hmmm.
• Claire Delune Anotheer vote for the Triplets of Belleville. One of my all time favorite movies!

• David Piper Ride The Divide?

• Richard Gregg E.T.?….No. Breakin’ Away? Maybe. When I was a student it was inspiring, anyway. I’mm sure it’s dated now though.
• Daniel Papadopoulos i’ve just ordered “bicycle dreams” as it looks absolutely insane!! endurance gone mad!!!

• Alicia Andrews motorcycle diaries – not really a cycling movie but good nonetheless.

• Dickie Greenleaf Follow Me… probably not what you mean, but worth a watch.

• Tobias Mews Chasing Legends! About the Tour de France. An amazing film!

I personally would like to add Bicycle Dreams – a lovely film about the madness that is the Race Across America.
And, from this blog, here are a few more goodies:

• Breaking Away
• American Flyers
• Quicksilver
• Rad
• Overcoming
• Hell on Wheels
• Road to Roubaix
• A Sunday in Hell
• DeTour the Movie
• Road to Paris

Do you know any good ones that we’ve missed? Have your say below…

Finally, here’s a nostalgic three minutes for me:

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