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From: curl@wjvax.UUCP (Jim Curl)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re:  Flyer's flick
Message-ID: <593@wjvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 21:32:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  8 21:32:04 1985
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>Whatever happened to Hollywood's latest and greatest bicycle racing film,
>American Flyers?  Did it die at the box office?  It was supposed to be
>released in coordination with the Coors Bicycle Classic, but I never saw
>it at any local theater (I saw a special screening).

I have also been waiting to see this movie.  I was in Boulder for the
finale of the Coors Classic and expected to see it there.

After reading a few bad reviews of the film, I have heard that 
although the bicycle scenes were quite good, the movie was not to be
released because of a weak plot.

I guess the powers that be in the movie buiseness felt that "Conan the
Barbarian" had a more powerful plot than could be found in a movie about
bicycling.

                                               ( jim curl )
                                               ( san jose )