Ahead of the Grand Départ, CHARLES HUTCHINSON previews a Yorkshire film capturing those wobbly days of learning to ride a bike.

REMEMBER the first time you took to two wheels and felt the rush of cycling without stabilisers?

In the build-up to Le Grand Depart for the 2014 Tour de France in July, City Screen Picturehouse in York has been working in tandem with the Yorkshire Film Archive to bring together a film show that captures the joy of the cycle ride through personal recollections of journeys in the Yorkshire region.

The nostalgic film, From Trike To Bike (PG), will be shown at City Screen on Monday at 6.30pm, introduced by Graham Relton, Yorkshire Film Archive's archive manager.

Dave Taylor, City Screen's marketing manager, says: "We’re pleased to welcome back Graham Relton, and an early preview tells me this film will be as popular a foray into local social history as previous YFA shows about chocolate, railways and beer.”

FromTrike To Bike will be "overflowing" with archive clips from 1927 until the 1980s. "You’ll be able to see the delightful home movies of a youngster trying out his first tricycle and making the transition to a two-wheeler with nervous wobbles; laugh at the cycling proficiency tests featuring Davy Crockett in Hull; admire the spirit of Morley Cycling Club after the Second World War and cheer on Yorkshire’s own champion rider, Beryl Burton," says Graham.

"From football on bikes to cycling on ice, trikes in the back yard to buying your first bike, road races and cycling proficiency tests, the screening is a celebration of our shared cycling memories. You’ll also catch glimpses of familiar Yorkshire landmarks; not just pedal power in the city of York, but also the towns, villages and landscapes that mark out the Yorkshire route of Le Tour 2014.”

City Screen will continue the cycling theme on the day of Le Grand Départ from Leeds to Harrogate, Saturday, July 5, with Pantani: The Accidental Death Of A Cyclist (15), James Erskine's documentary portrait of Marco Pantani, alias The Pirate, who won both the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia in 1998 but died alone in a cheap hotel room from cocaine poisoning only six years later aged 34.

Le Petit Départ fromYork on July 6 will be marked with a screening of The Flying Scotsman (15), Douglas Mackinnon's feature film based on the true story of world champion Graeme Obree (Jonny Lee Miller), who built his bike from washing-machine parts.

The Picturehouse Tour de Cinéma will conclude on July 7 with The Armstrong Lie (15), Alex Gibney's 2013 documentary on drugs cheat Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner wiped from the records. All three films will start at 8.30pm.

Tickets may be booked on 0871 902 5726 or at picturehouses.co.uk/york