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Cringey '80s BMX movie the best bike film of all time? | Watching Rad at a bike drive-in

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What is your favourite bike movie? Do you go highbrow, choosing the classic post-war neo-realist Italian drama Bicycle Thieves? Nah, didn't think so. You're looking for good campy fun.

I hadn't seen Rad since I was kid growing up near the Canadian city where this BMX movie was filmed. But a revival of interest and its emergence as a cult favourite had me heading to a special bike drive-in as part of the Calgary Underground Film Festival recently to check it out. Here's what I found.

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