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Loved the draft behind the big truck and when they taped his feet to the pedals in the race.
Even more impressive is the fact that during that scene when "Dave Stoller" (Dennis Christopher) was motorpacing behind a semi - he was using the small chainring on his Masi. Of course at the time the movie was made, it was common to see most bikes with a 52/42 chainring combination but motorpacing a semi in the small ring at those speeds would still be pretty difficult!
Trivia time:
1. Who knows how Dave Stoller came to own the 1978 Masi Gran Criterium that he road throughout the movie?
2. In the, Dave was very excited about that fact that he would get to race against the Italian national team when they came to town for a big race. In the movie the Italian's raced on Colnago's but the production staff only had to purchase two because two of the riders that played the part of Italian team members already owned Colnago's. One of these two is the father of a current pro racer riding for a division 1 team and is about to take the start for his 3rd TDF (not consecutive). Anyone know who I am referring to?
3. During the race, the Italians attacked but Dave was able to bridge whereupon the Italians were more than happy to let Dave ride on the front until they started to get concerned about the tempo he was setting! In an attempt to drop him, one of the Italian team members slammed "Dave's" shifter for the rear deraileur all the way forward momentarily putting him into difficulty. After he recovered, the Italian's jammed a frame pump into his front wheel which resulted in Dave going over the bars and the fork on his "Masi" being bent! So did the producers of the movie actually trash a Masi Gran Criterium or did they use a stand in and if so how could we tell the difference?
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