The third summer Bicycle Film Festival, in Edinburgh, got off to a great start tonight.
Three very different films about racing – with the emphasis on track – meshed together to produce something much more than the sum of the parts. All the films were good, but they also contained elements of similarity and contrast which made the juxtaposition fascinating.
Afterwards Donald Walker, sports editor of The Scotsman chaired a panel which included author Richard Moore, the directors of Standing Start, Finlay Pretsell and Adrian McDowall and director of Battle of the Bikes Peter Carr.
But the star turn was undoubtedly Graeme Obree who was lively, entertaining and funny – clearly in a much better frame of mind than in some of the dark times dramatised in the Flying Scotsman – shown last year.
