Legend: Mike Burrows - Design Maverick | movie | 2021 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00 Mike Burrows, a maverick engineer, who spent more than 40 years driving forward the evolution

00:11 of bike design.

00:12 It was that variety and originality of thought.

00:18 Mike's approach was purist and it worked.

00:22 I was born to be a mechanical engineer.

00:25 It just sort of happened that it was in my hands.

00:27 He changed the face of cycling as we know it.

00:34 Some of his bikes are as famous as the athletes who rode them.

00:48 And some were banned because they didn't look like bikes at all.

00:52 There's nothing marginal about one mile an hour that comes into the great big games category,

00:58 which is what I prefer.

01:01 One of the most important things that came out of Mike's involvement with Giant was his

01:06 compact road bike.

01:09 The industry were laughing.

01:11 They were joking.

01:12 This is not a bicycle, this is crazy, blah, blah, blah.

01:16 They wanted to ban it because of unequal advantage.

01:19 I'm going to get a rubber stamp made up to say banned by the UCI.

01:25 Mike's one of the most influential bike designers of the past half century.

01:30 Pioneer of carbon monocoque frame design in the early 80s, which provided the creative

01:35 spark for the legendary Lotus 108.

01:38 Now, 79 years old, Mike's showing no signs of stopping.

01:43 This is basically the nastiest bicycle I've ever ridden.

01:50 It really is an obsession for him.

01:52 All right, Mike?

01:53 Not really, no.

01:54 I think it's gone almost beyond enjoyment.

01:56 Have you ever found a bleaker spot to ride a bicycle?

01:59 I know.

02:00 Look at it.

02:01 It looks so ominous down there.

02:02 Oh, ****.

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02:27 (dramatic music)

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