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Top Ten Bicycle Movies

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01) The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette) (1948)
02) Beijing Bicycle (Shiqi sui de dan che) (2001)
03) Breaking Away (1979)
04) American Flyer (1985)
05) Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
06) Rad (1986)
07) Quicksilver (1986)
08) BMX Bandits (1983)
09) The Bike Squad (2002)
10) Buffalo Dreams (2005)

Other movies with significant bicycle scenes:
Better Off Dead (1985)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982)
The Goonies (1985)
Life is Beautiful (La Vita è Bella) (1997)
The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
National Lampoon’s European Vacation (1985)
New Jack City (1991)
Running Out of Time 2 (2001)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Bike Bits:

• There are roughly one billion bicycles in the world (about twice as many as motor vehicles).

• An estimated 130 million bicycles were produced worldwide in 2007 (more than twice the 52 million cars produced).

• Research has shown that tripling the number of bike riders on the street cuts motorist-bicyclist crashes in half.

• Bicycles currently displace over 238 million gallons of gasoline per year, by replacing car trips with bicycle trips.

• There are at least 400 bicycle clubs in America, with membership ranging from 10 to 4,000 members.