How many cliches can be fit into one scene? American Flyers may be the poor cousin to Breaking Away when it comes to cycling films, but it takes its rightful place in that rare niche of Hollywood feature film despite being inflicted with the Curse of Kevin Costner, who as a celluloid cyclist makes a great baseball field making guy.

This clip has it all: the open road, an in-depth explanation of the finer points of race tactics and terminology (though “shake ‘n break” probably wasn’t the inspiration for Talledega Nights), a wicked wheelie, cows, cowboy hats and some anti-social cowboys who manage to sneak in an insult (“get a horse”, the hillbilly equivalent of “get a car”), a good old-fashioned pantsing (always hilarious) and Costner getting cut off before the end of his senten…