![]() ![]() “It took about 10 days to cut everything and stick everything on from scratch.” For things like the white panels and all the little logos and chevrons on the frame I just went to work and vinyl'd everything up from scratch. “As an example, the 1994 Eddy Merckx Motorola bikes – we got them sprayed in a simple blue to red fade, front to back, and then I’ve got a little desk top vinyl cutting machine. Given that a large section of the film's audience will be cyclists – well known for their fastidious attention to kit detail – Spurrier knew the pressure was on. The project used up Condor’s entire stock of steel-tubed Classico framesets which were sent off to be painted before the intricate job of fixing decals to the frame. “Initially the producers wanted an entire peloton’s worth of vintage bikes between about 19, However the best thing we could think of was just simply to replicate the bikes as best as possible because we had three weeks in which to do the whole lot,” added Spurrier. “A lot of it was of an era when we were just getting into cycling ourselves so we were trawling through images like Miguel Indurain riding his bike,” he said. ![]() “It was a fabulous project,” Spurrier told BikeRadar yesterday. He admitted to frantic late nights trawling through retro photos from the era and working on a desktop vinyl cutter to painstakingly recreate decals for the bikes before they were sent to the filming location in France. The intricate replication prop project was led by Ben Spurrier, head of design at Condor. ![]()
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