- News
- Reviews
- Bikes
- Accessories
- Accessories - misc
- Computer mounts
- Bags
- Bar ends
- Bike bags & cases
- Bottle cages
- Bottles
- Cameras
- Car racks
- Child seats
- Computers
- Glasses
- GPS units
- Helmets
- Lights - front
- Lights - rear
- Lights - sets
- Locks
- Mirrors
- Mudguards
- Racks
- Pumps & CO2 inflators
- Puncture kits
- Reflectives
- Smart watches
- Stands and racks
- Trailers
- Clothing
- Components
- Bar tape & grips
- Bottom brackets
- Brake & gear cables
- Brake & STI levers
- Brake pads & spares
- Brakes
- Cassettes & freewheels
- Chains
- Chainsets & chainrings
- Derailleurs - front
- Derailleurs - rear
- Forks
- Gear levers & shifters
- Groupsets
- Handlebars & extensions
- Headsets
- Hubs
- Inner tubes
- Pedals
- Quick releases & skewers
- Saddles
- Seatposts
- Stems
- Wheels
- Tyres
- Health, fitness and nutrition
- Tools and workshop
- Miscellaneous
- Buyers Guides
- Features
- Forum
- Recommends
- Podcast
5.45 Rouleur Vimeo stillVideo: 5.45 Rouleur - riding in London as you seldom see it
Here’s a nice short film of Central London as you seldom see it – not a car in sight as club cyclists take part in a group ride. The clue lies in the title, 5.45 Rouleur – the time each day when Regent’s Park Rouleurs meet up for their weekday morning ride.
The film, made by Gorilla Face Productions and voiced over by a monologue of one of the rider’s thoughts, lasts just four minutes and has been submitted to the Sundance London short film competition (vote for it using the links to the right of this page).
5.45 Rouleur from Gorilla Face on Vimeo.
The film acts as a prelude to a longer documentary on the club, which meets up to ride around Regent’s Park each day, whatever the weather, and further afield at weekends.
Gorilla Face Productions says it is a new company with “a passion for shooting cycling and other action sports.”
It adds that its “ stylistic approach to capturing cycling is best described as an attempt to retain the traditional romance and cinematic beauty of the sport, whilst exploring new and innovative ways of filming that best encapsulate the experience of riding a bike.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
Latest Comments
- chrisonabike 0 sec ago
I can only imagine how it is for his family and sister to deal with this....
- kinderje 28 min 57 sec ago
Have you tried Garmin customer service? My charging door woudn't close properly and would shake loose on every ride. A call to Garmin and they put...
- Pot00000000 42 min 46 sec ago
That's a great looking bike. Shame it's a Bianchi
- ktache 9 hours 26 min ago
The Cure, 1989 day was fantastic, what little I got to hear. I think the BBC is wonderful, not perfect, but I'm so glad we have it.
- Ride On 10 hours 11 min ago
I ended up using Parcelforce - paying online and printing off a sticker - then drop off at the post office. I came across a couple of things worth...
- Rendel Harris 10 hours 17 min ago
Reckless doesn't exist as a charge in the UK, it's either careless or dangerous.
- mattw 10 hours 41 min ago
First Degree Assault in Maryland is serious - intent to cause serious injury, regardless of whether injury caused. A firearm makes it First Degree...
Add new comment
53 comments
I made this film with a few of my friends at Gorilla Face. It's intended as a dramatic short for the Sundance London comp and the v/o was required to add a narrative and meet the competition criteria (fully take your points about the v/o, trust me it was de-Raphad a few times before the final cut..).
Shearer27 - yep, flipped it to fill a hole in the edit. Film aimed at some of the non-cyclists out there so thought we'd get away with it. Good spot..
Thanks for your comments
All credit to you. Hope you had fun making it.
Don't worry about the negative comments, think of it this way: someone makes a film about the sport / hobby they enjoy. They share it. Others complain / moan. Its called the Internet!
Thanks for clearing that up!
I like the edit and look forward to seeing the full film.
I work in TV, editing documentaries. I also cycle round Regents Park.
The film is nicely put together: can't fault the production values but, as many people have pointed out, the voiceover drags it down.
Are the words taken verbatim from interviews with the guys? If so, why not just use the audio from the actual interviews?
Scripted voiceover of this kind is a bit suspect in something purporting to be a documentary.
Learning what motivates the cyclists is perfectly valid - but if this has been scripted then you're putting words into their mouths.
Shoot (or record) some actual interviews and use these as the basis for the voiceover track. Then it's a documentary - not just a promo.
I'm a DoP and part-time BBC camera op (and occasional RP cyclist). You can't fault the production value for docco style work but I feel it falls a bit short for the type of short film that was aimed for here.
I agree that using interview for the VO would have been a much stronger and I actually think that intercutting interview footage would have made it a more complete film.
@jasecd
I agree. I gather this is a promo for a longer doc which I'd be interested to see.
It would certainly carry more weight as a documentary if it incorporated actual first-person interview footage.
That would elevate it above and beyond being just a slick promo. It's something I would watch (I'm interested to know more about these guys)
Unfortunately, this version is something I struggled to engage with.
Nothing pleases me more than smashing it past the carbon riding rapha crew in the morning on the single speed steelie with full backpack. Simple pleasures and all that...
Let's have a race, mate
I'll wear as much Rapha as I can fit on me.
School of velominati and rapha.
Yes cycling is fantastic but we are just folk in lycra going up and down hills for fun, not some elite mystical covenant shrouded in mystical ways.
Fair play, they are up at 5.45 but only because they have no choice. Peace and quiet or death by truck, your choice.
I was up at 3.45 trying to get my 5month old son to sleep, I should stick on a rapha jersey, film it in slow mo black and white and make it look cool.
Up at 05:45....just back from 2 months working in Tel Aviv...up at 05:30 to go to work (for 08:00) Sun-Thurs...and more often than not 'just coming in at 05:45' Fri/Sat.....mmmmhhh BEER!
Must've been going backwards.
It rubs me up the wrong way worse than a pair of second-hand Aldi bib shorts when people write things like 5.45 instead of 5:45.
ha ha, Seriously? Never given it a thought. Waste of a an extra '.'
how about 0545 24 hour clock, ok or is that a big sniff on the aldi bibs?
Pretentious.
Laps of Regents Parks time after time?
Stretching the romance of cycling a bit too far for me that one.
As said one too many Rapha films consumed...nothing unique about what they're doing...they appear to be asking us to be in awe in some way?...
Perfectly nice video, horrible voiceover.
At 1:42 has the film been flipped? Or does the bike use a left-sided crank and chainrings??
Certainly has.. but the question is why?
Screen Shot 2014-03-13 at 13.45.57.png
YAWN.............!
Great to see another bunch of London cyclists up their own ars*.
A voice for priesthood!
someone has been watching too many Rapha videos.
We (Central London CTC) see these guys sometimes, but seldom mob-handed—our sessions are in the evenings and for the breakfast social on Saturday morning. They should have a matchup with London Dynamo who also fancy themselves as the Masters of the Circle. Then we would find out who attacks while they breathe...
There is a 5:45 in the Morning!
Reminds me of that Brad Pitt perfume advert: Pretension.
Yeah, I didn't need to see much of that to know I don't want to see the documentary.
If you've never tried riding through the city in the small hours you should. Ride through London early on a Sunday morning in the middle of summer, and it's literally like 28 Days Later (that's how they filmed it).
Pages