Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends and parents annoyance.
College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even more serious crime.
David Sommers jest studentem, a jego starszy brat Marcus lekarzem medycyny sportowej. Obydwaj fascynują się kolarstwem. Pewnego dnia postanawiają wziąć wspólnie udział w morderczym wyścigu kolarskim pod nazwą "Piekło Zachodu". Bracia pokonują cały kraj, aby dostać się do Colorado, gdzie mają odbyć się zawody. Podróż jest dla nich okazją, żeby odnowić więź i spędzić razem trochę czasu. David nie wie jednak, że Marcus skrywa przed nim pewien sekret, który wyjdzie na jaw w trakcie wyczerpującego wyścigu.
Szkocki kolarz, Graeme Obree, bije rekord świata na rowerze własnego pomysłu. Jego nowatorski styl jazdy nie przypada do gustu działaczom, którzy zaczynają tworzyć przepisy uniemożliwiające kolejne starty mężczyźnie.
Felix (Niels Willaerts) jest zdolnym, młodym kolarzem, który liczy, że niebawem osiągnie sukces. Na przeszkodzie do realizacji tego pragnienia stoi ojciec, niespełniony sportowiec, który nadgorliwie zmusza go do przekraczania kolejnych granic, wywierając na młodzieńcu zbyt dużą presję. Po jednym z licznych sporów Felix podejmuje próbę uniezależnienia się od ojca. Chce samodzielnie kierować swoją sportową karierą, jednak z czasem uzmysławia sobie, że nie jest to takie proste. Musi zdecydować, czy powinien poświęcić wszystko, także własne zdrowie, aby udowodnić innym, że jest godzien miana zwycięzcy. Decyzje, które podejmie, zaważą na całym jego życiu.
One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...
A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. With the energy of a skillful cyclist perhaps as a great tribute to François, the mailman played by Tati in The Big Day, Moullet makes a comedy by pedaling at a pace that allows him to reinvent the possibilities of film gags. La Cabale des oursins is a guided tour to the northern France, transformed into a Geography lesson in the pataphysical style of an Alfred Jarry disciple.
Gugge and Nuffe work at the competing meat wholesalers AB Delikatesser and AB Skånedelikatesser. The two companies compete for a large order and the two will stop at hardly nothing to get the order
Former pro cyclist Kim Karlsen (39) holds a press conference admitting use of performance enhancing drugs in her career. Rather than accepting the consequences of her actions, our antiheroine sticks to her guns and refuses to alter her mindset.
Akira, Takeshi, Yasu, and Shun are a gang of four close friends, all of whom were core members of their high-school ekiden team. Although they were stars back in those days, having slacked up their efforts subsequently, their daily life is lackluster now that the age of forty is just around the corner. They talk at a favorite local tavern just like they used to after Akira comes home giving up his dream to become an actor. Thinking back, they have never accomplished anything but ekiden, and they have unknowingly acquired a tendency to run away from problems in life in general. The phrase they cannot help muttering to themselves is how brilliant they were in those days… Feeling dispirited, they think of participating in the Shimanto Dragon Ride. A challenge for the four men in their late thirties begins…
Tour de France 1965 in colour
A cyclist goes for a ride racing all kinds of vehicles only to be passed by a centipede.