Recumbents make it to the big screen

[arallsopp]

OK, so its a german language comedy / drama / romance effort, and possibly not all that good, but still, its a film, right, and those are HPV Scorpions, are they not?

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUhR50ckbVw&feature=player_embedded


Hardly any details here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216275/

 

[Browser]

I'll have to watch that when I'm at home and out of range of the godawful IS we have here which refuses to play Youtube most of the time!
If you ever get to see a film called Brainstorm from 1983 starring Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood (her last film sadly), you'll see him riding a LWB under-seat steering recumbent.

 

[ufkacbln]

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[redfalo]

Oh boy - the trikes sound like they haven´t been serviced for decades. They urgently need an overhaul :-)

 

[ufkacbln]

.. and the wheel truing leaves a LOT to be desired!

 

[bikepete]

Someone on the Velo Vision forum saw the whole film, and said the trikes had been crashed into by a car in an earlier scene, hence the wheel wobble etc.

 

[redfalo]

On their German website HP Velotechnik has a piece on the making of of the film: http://www.hpvelotechnik.com/produkte/scorpion/pressespiegel/13semester_d.html

In deed they used Scorpions. Interestingly both founders of the company,
Paul Hollants and Daniel Pulvermüller played a small role in the film:
Hollants was a trike rider who talks vor 10 seconds, Puvlermüller rode as Stuntdouble for one of the actors (who apparently wasn´t able to ride a Scorpion?!?)

 

[arallsopp]

one of the actors (who apparently wasn´t able to ride a Scorpion?!?)

How the hell can an able bodied actor not be able to ride a trike? I say bring back the casting couch. If they can't stay seated on an average sized sofa for more than 10 seconds without falling off, they don't get the role.

 

[Auntie Helen]

Think I should buy a copy of this film to improve my knowledge of German cycling vocabulary?

 

[arallsopp]

I've got a projector... Trike seats are comfy.... Anyone got any outdoor speakers?

 

[redfalo]

How the hell can an able bodied actor not be able to ride a trike? I say bring back the casting couch. If they can't stay seated on an average sized sofa for more than 10 seconds without falling off, they don't get the role.