Since many of you guys (including me) really adore The World's Fastest Indian, I have to highly recommend viewing the Flying Scotsman. I watched it for the first time yesterday and was blown away. It is based on a true story about a bipolar Scottish cyclist who builds a home made time trials bike out of various bits and pieces found around the garage to attempt a time trials world record. Thats where i'll stop..
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Feb. 8, 2009 11:29 a.m. 92dxman Reader
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Feb. 8, 2009 3:02 p.m. Rumnhammer New Reader
My wife tivoed that for me last week and we watched it together. Was very good, and made me feel nostalgic since it happened back when I was racing bicycles.
Quite a good movie, not as good as worlds fastest indian, but pretty good. Chris Rummel
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Feb. 8, 2009 3:53 p.m. ignorant SuperDork
The train? saw it in York.
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Feb. 8, 2009 5:20 p.m. aeronca65t Reader
Sounds neat. I'll have to see if I can get it.
By the way, when I was kid growing up in the UK, my Dad worked for British Railways. We'd see the original Flying Scotsman with Gresley steam locomotive on a regular basis.
Later when we moved to Canada, Dad got a job at Canadian National Railroad. When he first saw the huge Canadian diesel locomotives (used for pulling logging and mining cars), he said they made the British steamers look puny by comparison.
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Feb. 8, 2009 6:12 p.m. walterj HalfDork
Oh, see... now I thought you meant THE Flying Scot...
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Feb. 8, 2009 6:30 p.m. ignorant SuperDork
no no no..this is the flying scotsman
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4m5p0_flying-scotsman_auto
1st steam locomotvie to do 100mph
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Feb. 8, 2009 7:42 p.m. fifty New Reader
Yeah, read the autobiography of Graham Obree a few years back - very interesting character.
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Feb. 8, 2009 10:55 p.m. pigeon Reader
I caught that on TV from about 1/2 hour in once a few months ago, good movie.
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Feb. 9, 2009 7:57 a.m. Xceler8x HalfDork
Netflix - added...
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Feb. 9, 2009 8:23 a.m. ignorant SuperDork
added on neetflix.. but if you guys ever get a chance to go to York in the UK.. do go to the National Railway Museum. It was great.
