American Cinematographer - February 1988 - 75

Bikes! Camera! Action!
by Ron Magid
Denman demon¬
strates

To many cinematographers, having a dolly
that would allow a camera to travel at high

speeds through
would

seem a

narrow, confined spaces
dream come true - but to

Rick Denman, owner and founder of Bikes...

Camera...Action!, it's merely his stock in
specialty for the past eight
years has been finding ways to mount al¬
most any type of camera onto various bicy¬
trade. Denman's

cles to create what he calls "the world's

non-polluting dolly." His unique
appeared in some three dozen
commercials, the IMAX film, Speed, and two
features, American Flyers and Quicksilver,
both of which deal with cycling. Having
proven time and again the advantages of
utilizing his services to enhance bike racing
footage in both live and staged situations,
Denman is now on a self-proclaimed mis¬
sion to acquaint cinematographers with oth¬
er applications for which he feels certain his
narrowest

work has

equipment could be used.

"I'm much

more

equipment

uses

at various loca

tions

on

his

bicycle.

maneuverable at

higher rate of speed on a bike than any
camera dolly, inserted car, motorcycle
or Steadicam," Denman says proudly. "There
are many situations where these other
methods are impractical: you can't put a
motorcycle or an insert car in the midst of a
marathon footrace, and you can't always use
a Steadicam because of the speed and
distance involved. The maneuverability of
the bicycle and its ability to lean into a turn
on a fast descent is unique and gives a
greater feeling of momentum than can be
a

other

achieved with

an

insert

car.

"A

so

I

can

bicycle is very unthreatening,
chase people around who are riding

skateboards, scooters, even wheelchairs.
On the other hand, I don't think anyone
would want to have

a motorcycle riding in
pack of skaters or runners,
simply because it's going to cough up an

poor choice in racing competition situations
because they create wind draft, which is the

awful lot of smoke. Motorcycles are

it's such

the midst of

February 1988

a

also

a

basis of every
an

American

tactic in bike racing because
advantage. If I'm out there with a

Cinematographer

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