Steve Tesich. Top credits Director Peter Yates. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Breaking Away. Video Sneak Previews Season 2 Episode 4. Photos Top cast Edit. Dennis Quaid Mike as Mike.
Daniel Stern Cyril as Cyril. Jackie Earle Haley Moocher as Moocher. Robyn Douglass Katherine as Katherine. Hart Bochner Rod as Rod. Amy Wright Nancy as Nancy. Peter Maloney Doctor as Doctor. Jennifer K. Mickel Girl as Girl. David K. Blase Race Announcer as Race Announcer.
William S. Armstrong Race Official as Race Official. Howard S. Wilcox Race Official as Race Official. York as Mr. York as J. Peter Yates. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Best friends Dave, Mike, Cyril and Moocher have just graduated from high school. Living in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana, they are considered "cutters": the working class of the town so named since most of the middle aged generation, such as their parents, worked at the local limestone quarry, which is now a swimming hole.
There is great animosity between the cutters and the generally wealthy Indiana University students, each group who have their own turf in town. The dichotomy is that the limestone was used to build the university, which is now seen as being too good for the locals who built it.
Although each of the four is a totally different personality from the other three, they also have in common the fact of being unfocused and unmotivated in life. The one slight exception is Dave. Although he has no job and doesn't know what to do with his life, he is a champion bicycle racer. He idolizes the Italian cycling team so much he pretends to be Italian, much to the chagrin of his parents, especially his used car salesman father, Ray Stoller, who just doesn't understand his son.
Dave crosses the unofficial line when he meets and wants to date a IU co-ed named Katherine Bennett, who, intrigued by Dave, in turn is already dating Rod, one of the big men on campus. Dave passes himself off to her as an Italian exchange student named Enrico Gismondi.
Beyond Katarina as he calls her, Dave's main immediate focus is that the Italian cycling team have announced that they will be in Indianapolis for an upcoming race, which he intends to enter to be able to race his idols. After an incident at the race, Dave, with a little help from his parents and unwittingly by actions of his friends, has to reexamine his life, what he really wants to get out of it and how best to start achieving it. Somewhere between growing up and settling down Did you know Edit.
Trivia The term "Cutters" heard in the film is used to represent Bloomington, Indiana townies who work cutting rock in the local limestone quarries. The production team decided to call the Bloomington townies "cutters" because they felt the actual local nickname "stoners" or "stonies" would draw a parallel to drug references for viewers who were not raised in the area.
An earlier shot shows him in the large, and correct, chain-ring behind the semi. More importantly, the American roads are not for Dave and his bike: exhilarated by the promise that an Italian racing team is coming to Indiana for an exhibition race, he is inspired to sheer madness: drafting behind an wheeled semi-truck on a divided highway, he somehow cranks his bike up to a terrifying 60 miles per hour, the rear axle and brake lights of the truck looming close before the state highway patrol pulls the truck over for speeding.
After nearly a century of mainstream American disinterest in the bike, and even after the bike boom of the s, the bicycle is foreign to this Midwest town; a lightweight racing bike doubly so. This is actually what attracts Dave to the saddle. Identifying with the bicycle brings Dave into conflict both with American identity and his working-class origins, serving as the tool for him to break away from his family and friends to find his own path.
What does Breaking Away tell us about what Americans thought of the bicycle in the last quarter of the twentieth century? Mostly, it says that after decades of disuse, and despite the bike boom of the s, Americans had set their minds that cycling was for children and foreigners. For a film that evokes warm feelings in cyclists today, the message of Breaking Away is one of ostracism, exclusion, and a persistent inability to equate recreational cycling with American identity.
The Cutters themselves might be victorious at the end of this feel-good sports movie, but it might be a bit early to declare victory for cycling in America.
Close Menu Home. Dave, riding home from winning a race. Drafting behind a semi trailer on a divided highway. Yust is a big Breaking Away fan. He runs Velospeak , dedicated to all things cycling, as a personal passion outside of his day job in the film industry. He confirmed that the bike exhibited definitely belonged to Christopher and that it was indeed the real thing, as they lived in close proximity and had spoken at length about making the movie.
Following the shooting of the final scene, he had literally walked off the set with the bike and it has remained in his possession ever since.
Despite having the perfect physical build for cycling and playing the role of Dave so well, Christopher is not an avid cyclist; the bike was only ridden a few times after filming before being carefully stored for three decades. Faliero Masi had a distinct preference for 3TTT cockpit components in the s after reputedly having a disagreement with Cino Cinelli. Alex Yust was keen to assist with the project and Dennis Christopher happily agreed to make the bike available for a series of photos of component details.
This provided the information required. It also confirmed that the bike was entirely original with the exception of a Masi pantographed stem and new bartape. The stem was a gift to Christopher from Faliero Masi and was fitted after filming by the famous I. Martin store. Martins was not only his local bike shop but had supplied the bikes for the movie and assisted with fitting Christopher and providing advice on how to ride like a professional rider.
Christopher and Yust had provided all the details needed and a reciprocal offering of wine was provided, of course. There was no doubt about the authenticity of the bike, but after reviewing the photos some things did not make sense if it had been produced in Similarly the frame serial number is not consistent with any numbering system used at Masi workshops. Further research was required…. Brian Bayliss, a respected member of the US handbuilt bike scene with a gift for producing finely detailed bikes, had began his career working at the Carlsbad workshop under the tutelage of Faliero Masi and was happy to share his knowledge.
He explained that, when the Carlsbad workshop opened in , an enormous stock of Campagnolo components had been obtained in preparation for the anticipated large sales. However, as the planned level of production did not eventuate, this stock lasted many years and was being fitted to new bikes years later, possibly up to It later emerged that this stock was part of a purchase of product by Roland Sahm that was so large he was gifted a Ferrari as part of the deal.
He has an amazing drive to source information and ensure that the facts are sifted from the tales and had undertaken a huge amount of research including interviews with almost all key players still alive in Italy and the US.
Phipps filled in many gaps in the Masi story generally, and in particular background information of the period when the movie bikes were ordered. Phipps explained that during , Masi production was wound down at the Carlsbad workshop in preparation for relocation to a new facility at San Marcos.
As an interim measure, production of frames was initially outsourced to builder Albert Eisentraut and later to Keith Lippy who each built small batches in Eisentraut framesets have a distinctive fork bend and so it appeared Keith Lippy was the more likely candidate. The frame was subsequently painted and finished by Jim Allen in the new Masi San Marcos workshop in early alongside new frames starting to be produced there. Thus it came to pass that two Masi Gran Criterium frames, different in several respects, were supplied to the I.
Martin bike shop in spring to fill the order from the Breaking Away production company. Introduced in the late s the side-pull caliper design was so successful it remained fundamentally unchanged for over 15 years. Because the bike was going to be exhibited and is so revered, only mint condition parts would be appropriate.
With knowledge and patience it is possible to obtain many components from the s new and in original packaging. Sourcing and opening vintage Campagnolo boxes with their distinctive aroma and greaseproof paper to reveal a beautiful handfinished component is addictive and in a short time most required items had been secured.
Inevitably, one or two items are not so easily found when very specific requirements apply. The exhibition was fast approaching.
Andy White of FYXO fame is held heavily responsible for an introduction to the joys of vintage steel bikes and has a well documented fondness for all things orange including the Breaking Away Masi. It was with a sense of karma that the exhibit build was entrusted to his instinctive style and amazing eye for visual detail and balance. There persisted one final challenge to test the resolve and commitment to absolute authenticity which was proving difficult to ignore. To be truly accurate, a replacement fork with the correct square shouldered Fischer casting crown was needed.
By this stage the journey had progressed so far down the rabbit hole that it had to be done. It transpired that Brian Bayliss still had a small stock of the original Fischer castings and Reynolds steel fork blades used in Masi production and he agreed to build the replica fork. Sadly, it was a commission that was never to be completed. In , Bayliss contracted pneumonia and quickly succumbed to the complications that followed.
The speed of his passing shook the handbuilt bike community and tributes flowed for a long time filled with stories of his larger-than-life character and readiness to put forward a colourful and passionate point of view. His absence will certainly be felt and the bike industry will be poorer for it. Yet again, the boundless enthusiasm for a bike project challenge was encountered and Campbell used his own frame builder network to obtain the required parts, including high-profile American builder Richard Sachs who provided the fork crown.
A flow of workshop pictures on Instagram appeared and the finished fork emerged, complete with bright chrome and luscious red paint.
Unfortunately, time had been against this last effort and the fork was finished too late for the exhibition in Adelaide. The night of the Legends Dinner arrived… the finished bike poised on its display stand, all polished and glowing under lights was striking. Putting this bike together was an amazing experience, the culmination of parts sourced from around the globe and incredibly generous assistance from so many people. It also occurred to me that the project had proven a fabulous boost for the SA wine industry.
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