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Pedal (Book & DVD)
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By Zephyr, Ken Miller and Swoon
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 (9 Reviews)
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powerHouse Books
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Pap/DVD
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December 31, 1969 |
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Paperback
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144
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Best-selling author Peter Sutherland?s newest title, Pedal, is a wild ride alongside a band of New York City?s most feared and respected inhabitants: bike messengers. In a book of photographs and a documentary on DVD, Sutherland follows the frenetic trips and lives of the cyclists who live by their own rules of the road.
In Pedal, Sutherland documents bike messengers competing in the 2005 Cycle Messenger World Championships in New York City. Going straight to the center of this urban subculture, Sutherland serves up compelling portraits of the competitors from dozens of countries, in motion and at ease, checking out each other?s bags, lingering over modifications to bikes and bodies. Between events like sprints, distance racing, and skid contests, Sutherland shows us the riders? elegant physicality, complex individuality, and unique community that crosses boundaries of race, gender, age, and class. And he doesn?t shy away from the blood and bruises that come part and parcel with the messenger?s life. Sutherland delves deep into the world of the messengers?a world usually seen from the outside?and returns with a dynamic document that evokes the unbridled anarchy and energy of its inhabitants.
The accompanying DVD is a fast-paced documentary film about surviving in the streets of New York City as a bicycle messenger. It features messengers from all walks of life as they battle traffic in a race to make their next delivery on time. Directed by Sutherland and produced by Ana Lombardo, Pedal the documentary lets viewers live the spectacle of the delivery itself. It premiered in 2001 at the South by Southwest film festival, and was later acquired by the Sundance channel, where it aired until 2004.
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 PEDAL is powered by the NY city streets... deep in the funk., August 9, 2006
By FIXED NO BRAKES (LONG BEACH, CA)
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This DVD is for all those interested in the subculture of bicycles, not just bike messengers or track bikes, but fighting for space with cars/taxi cabs, pedestrians and the police. This documentary is fast paced alongside those in the messenger (outlaw) community, and shows the true grit of the rotten apple. While the book has very little text, the small amount is amazing, and it is covered with beautiful pictures of roudy messengers competing in the Bike Messenger World Championships. A MUST BUY FOR ANY BICYCLE ENTHUSIAST. Definitely worth watching over and over again.
7 of 7 people found the above review helpful.
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 meh, November 17, 2010
By noman
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I was super excited to receive this book and DVD in the mail. After viewing the short couple of videos online, I thought this movie was gonna blow my mind. It didn't really blow it though. Not to say that the DVD was bad, just wasn't as ground breaking as I would like. The thing that bothered me most about this purchase, however, was the quality of the printed materials. The book of photos that accompanies the package has terrible binding which cracked and fell apart after 1 viewing, and they edges of the whole package box began to bust at the seams after very little handling. These things bothered me the most. I like the artist's work a lot, movie is worth checking out, but overall, not a great experience.
2 of 2 people found the above review helpful.
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Don't Judge a Book by Its Photographer, November 9, 2006
By S. Hicks (SF)
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Anyone familiar with the current art scene would jump to buy this and understandbly so with the names involved, unfortunately, it's a disappointment. I hate to slam it because I like Sutherland's work, but I was just hoping for so much more out of the documentary. Most of the interviews are boring (mainly because they last too long), there aren't very many messangers shown, there's nothing on the film about the CMWC, which could've at least provided him with more interviews, and there's only one messanger whose life is shown beyond the surface.
2 of 3 people found the above review helpful.
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Not as great as i thought it'd be, November 10, 2006
By Tym (Brooklyn NY)
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As a former messenger and current bicycle enthusiast, i usually enjoy any documentary or movie on being a bike messenger. I just exspected more from this one. Its kinda depressing at times (tho, being a messenger can be depressing at times so i understand). The packaging and book are nice tho.
1 of 1 people found the above review helpful.
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Review of PEDAL, January 15, 2007
By Jorge Gonçalves Coelho (Faro, Portugal)
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It's an interresting document as it exposes this "counterculture" collective - bicycle messengers. The book is rather superficial with plenty of pictures and only four texts which vary considerably, ranging from contradictory-ragefilled-selfcentered-discourse to some interesting clearly depicting analysis. The DVD is great! Covering that cosmos: from the despatcher to the messenger, the bike races to the pedal driven task force in action.
Overall I rate it 4 stars, since it gets you acquainted to the NY messenger collective.
Jorge Coelho, Portugal, Faro
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A really cool package, June 13, 2008
By Mel (New Zealand)
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The book is great, I love the photos, but was expecting more words to go with them. Only downside is the cover fell off the first time I opened it up, the glue let go. I think I can fix it up with something a bit better though.
The documentary is pretty good, an interesting look into the lives of some NY messengers. It only seems to scratch the surface though - there must be so much more of a story there. I would have liked to have heard from more people. And coverage of CMWC would have been good too.
I'll definitely watch it a few more times before lending it out to friends. Overall a really cool package.
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I LOVED this film!, September 30, 2009
By Peter Lehmann (Fort Wayne, IN USA)
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I loved this film! Who knew a gritty (in an artistic way) documentary could have surprises and tiny little "plot-thickens" moments? My only issue (other than the fact that it wasn't six hours long, I could have watched it with fascination all day) is that the binding on the book failed the moment I removed it from its box. I was very sad, but didn't want to bother sending it back; then I wouldn't have had it for a few days. I liked it so much that I just figured I would buy a second copy when able.
I wish it were easier to find more films like this; Fixed-Gear Cycling is an extremely niche market, but I, as well as anyone else I have talked to, am very addicted to it. I wish there were far more films than this out there. And if there are, I wish they were easier to find.
And for others who share the above opinion, here are a couple other films I have come across:
"Fast Friday," a documentary,
"Quicksilver," a very old Kevin Bacon film from 1986,
and...I haven't found more! :(
ADDITIONAL REVIEW INFORMATION:
This film is so good, I DID buy a second copy. I am compulsively careful with the book so the binding has not failed on the new one, I also super-glued the old one together, which worked just fine!
I have also discovered a few more fixed-gear documentaries available from Amazon.Com:
"Still We Ride," less about fixed-gear but important to the lifestyle,
"Red Light, Go!," a documentary about NYC "Alley-Cat" races (excellent!),
and several films, purely track-bike action; some popular, others more obscure:
"Macaframa,"
The "Bootleg Sessions" Four-Volume video project,
"MASH,"
"Council of Doom,"
and, hopefully!, more I haven't yet discovered!
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A fast, hardcore lifestyle., July 11, 2009
By jaydokken (Seattle, WA)
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This DVD and book exposes the harsh realities of being a New York City bike messenger. Sutherland does a great job uncovering the life, drama and details of living a fast-paced life.
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to much emphasis on the dispatch life and not the real messenger life, January 9, 2009
By seli (slc, ut)
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Pedal was good in the sense of the idea. I think that it was advertised as a messenger movie. I have a boyfriend who was a messenger and the flaw of this movie comes by making them all look like low level lifers to the streets not the real people who ride the job.
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