Full Cycle: A World Odyssey

Full Cycle: A World Odyssey is a mountain biking video title that chronicles the travel adventures of San Diego husband and wife team, Mark Schulze and Patty Mooney, who in 1993 and 1994, went in search of the best singletrack mountain trails of nine countries including the United States, Canada, Costa Rica, Wales, Switzerland,Greece, Tahiti,Australia and India.

Featured in the documentary are actor James Hong and his family, along with mountain bike pioneers Gary Fisher, Charlie Kelly (businessman), Jacquie Phelan and World Trials Champion, Ot Pi of Barcelona. Summit Magazine, among other publications, referred to it as the Endless Summer on Wheels.

After producing three mountain-bike video titles in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including The Great Mountain Biking Video, "the world's first mountain biking video," Schulze and Mooney decided to make an "Endless Summer on Mountain Bikes" and worked with four different camera operators during several phases of their journey. Mark Schulze, himself an award-winning Director of Photography, shot many of the scenic clips. Jimmy Gareri shot aerial footage in San Diego. Mark Eveslage, a National Geographic Director of Photography, videotaped in the U.S, Costa Rica, South Pacific and India locations. Dick Crow who also wore a Steadicam rig for many of his shots, videotaped in the European locations. And Ralph Chaney videotaped in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada. It took two years for the couple to acquire 75 hours of footage which was then edited down into a two-hour broadcast-quality documentary by their friend, Steve Langius.

Shots include: city life in Vancouver, London, Athens, Adelaide, assorted villages around the globe, the American Southwest, South Australia's Flinders Ranges and Kangaroo Island, the Matterhorn and snowy summer Alps, Welsh moors, forests and waterfalls, Tahitian jagged volcanic peaks, caves, rainbows, British Columbian bears, Brazilian street dancers in Geneva, an Indian elephant lifting a bicycle and India's Himalayas and spiritual culture.

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