In the past, CRW has maintained a small collection of cycling videos, available to the membership to borrow. One problem with this arrangement was the difficulty keeping track of who had which video and sending them from borrower to borrower. To address this problem but still have cycling videos available to CRW members, we are going to try out a new idea. CRW has purchased several new cycling videos and donated them to the Minuteman library network. The videos, which say "Donated by the Charles River Wheelmen" on them, were given to the Cambridge Public Library but are available to anyone in the Minuteman library network (almost all local towns other than Boston). Boston library users can also access the videos through inter-library network loans. The videos will be available to all library users, not just CRW members, but we don't anticipate big problems with excess demand. We will periodically check and see how often the videos have been checked out to get an idea of how high the level of interest is.
The following videos were donated and are now available to you from your local library:
2001 Tour de France - Lance's third triumph.
1989 Tour De France - the thrilling tour finish where Greg LeMond trailed Laurent Fignon by 50 seconds going into the final time trial in Paris.
1993 World Championships
1993 Giro d'Italia
Two Seconds(in French with English subtitles) -
Charlotte Laurier portrays a professional downhill mountain bike racer who
hesitates for two seconds just before starting the biggest race of her life...
and loses by those very two seconds. After she moves back to her native
Montreal, she discovers a small shop owned by a cranky Italian former
professional road bike racer. He helps her to put her life into perspective and
discusses his own 'big race' in the course of their poignant, developing
friendship.
Spinervals 1.0 - No Slackers Allowed! - 45 minute video for a
directed workout on the trainer.