Breakaway Cyclery ipod play list for a ride

• Againist the Wind - Bob Seger
• Aint No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye
• You Spin Me Right Round - Billy Idol
• Ain't No Rest for the Wicked - Caged Elphants
• Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers
• The Distance - Cake
• Fast As You Can - Fiona Apple
• Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles
• Hurt - Nine Inch Nails
• Lack of Water - The Why Store
• I Will Survive - Cake
• Harder to Breathe - Maroon 5
• No Rain - Blind Melon
• Passing Me By - The Pharcyde
• Everybody Hurts - REM
• Riding Solo - Jason Derulo
• Send Me On the Way - Rusted Root
• Wrong Way - Sublime
• Bicycle Race- Queen
• Why Don't We Do It In The Road - The Beatles
• Bike - Pink Floyd

Cycling Movies

I have a tradition every year the day before opening day of the baseball season I watch some of my favorite baseball movies like The Natural, Bull Durham, Major League ect... It made me start thinking how come there aren't a bunch of great cycling movies. There are so many great stories in cycling that are so movie worthy. There is Eddy Merckx, the Greg Lemond story, 7 Eleven rise in European racing, and of course there's Lance.
Here is a list of cycling movies that I really enjoy.

Quicksilver
- Kevin Bacon is a New York city business man who loses his job and becomes a bicycle messenger. Bacon is joined by Laurence Fishburne as Voo doo, Paul Rodriguez, Louis Anderson and Jami Gertz finish out the cast of bicycle couriers. The film starts out with an awesome scene where Kevin Bacon is in a taxi and gets into a race with bike messenger Nelson Vails.

American Flyer's
- American Flyer's is the tale about two brothers who go to tackle the Hell of the West race. This was my first motion picture having anything to do with cycling that I had seen. The film is based on the Coors Classic or Red Zinger race and even features a cameo from Eddy Merckx and a nod from the writes by naming one of the characters "the Cannibal."

The Flying Scotsman
- Johnny Lee Miller plays the controversial Scotsman Grame Obree. Te Flying Scotsman is the inspirational tale of Obree's pursuit of the infamous hour record on a bicycle that he designed and built.

Breaking Away
- This is one of my favorites, Breaking Away is the story of Dave Stoller and the Little 500 bicycle race at Indiana University. This coming of age story of Stoller and his townie friends (Cutters) who try to out do the snooty college frat guys at their own race, the Little 500. Catch Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern in one of there earlier films and a great drafting behind the semi scene.

Why Cycling?

I am an avid cycling fan who used to race bikes all over the globe in my earlier years, and I am now trying to become more dedicated to my present cycling endeavors. Many of my friends and co-workers wonder how I got hooked on cycling, so I decided to start my blog with precisely that story. My father is a French professor at IUPUI and one of the perks of his job when I was a kid was to take students to Europe for study abroad programs. In 1986 we spent the summer in Dijon, France at the University de Bourgonge. I was 10 years old and back home in the states I enjoyed playing baseball, backyard football, and shooting hoops as most 10 year olds in Indiana did at that time. However in Dijon I quickly noticed that there were no baseball fields, no basketball goals at the parks, and none of the sporting goods stores had an American football. I quickly made friends with the English speaking children of other teachers and professors that were also there on study abroad programs. First I met Sean who was 13 years old and from Ireland. Lamberto was from Milano, Italy and he was 12 years old. Claudia was also 12 years old and she was from Dijon. Ryan and Julia rounded out our group they were 10 year old twins from Quebec, Canada and they spoke both English and french fluently. The six of us spent the entire summer together some times with Nadine (Claudia's younger sister) and Dan ( my younger brother) in tow, exploring Dijon and kicking a football (which means soccer) around campus.
Then came July, Sean came us to with a cycling magazine that previewed the Tour de France. Sean began telling all of us that his fellow Irishman Sean Kelly was going to win the Tour that year. Lamberto chimed in with how Sean Kelly did not stand a chance because his fellow countryman Maurizio Fondriest was surly going to win. Of course Claudia had to step up and tell us all about the great Bernard Hinault, the Frenchman who had won the Tour de France five times including last years race. I really did not have any indication of what was the Tour de France, I had heard of it and I knew that raced bicycles but that was about it. Sean thumbed through his magazine and found a page with all the riders and what team they rode for and what country they were from. I spoke up and asked if there was any from America, everybody laughed a little and Sean told me that there was at least one. Greg Lemond was an American who had almost won last years Tour de France. Sean flipped a couple of pages to a picture of a "blonde headed Californian phenom Greg Lemond" as the caption below the picture read. Well I guess I had found my dog in the fight. On that same page found Canadian cyclist Steve Bauer which made Ryan and Julia happy, we all finally had a rooting interest in the Tour.
We would get the newspaper everyday and scan the pages to find out how our respective riders were doing in the race. Everyday was like a lesson in cycling and the Tour de France. I learned what a time trial was, how important mountain stages were, race and team tactics and so on. It was fascinating, after a very exciting July that culminated with Tour de France victory for American Greg Lemond, it was safe to say I was hooked.