CYCLING legend Graeme Obree and director David Street will attend the April 22 screening of Battle Mountain: Graeme Obree's Story (12A) at City Screen, York.

"After the 6.30pm show, we're delighted to welcome Graeme and David in person to answer questions from the audience," says marketing manager Dave Taylor. "It's a fascinating tale and we've also made an arrangement with York Cycleworks so that one lucky winner can win some branded cycling merchandise."

Obree's colourful life story as "the Flying Scotsman" already had embraced a failed bicycle shop business, a troubled personal life, mental illness and breaking cycling world records on machines made from old washing machine parts, when the Scotsman made another singular decision. At the age of 48, in 2013, he would try to beat the Human Powered Land Speed Record in Battle Mountain, Nevada.

In his documentary, director David Street follows Obree’s endeavour, revealing insights into his considerable determination and unconventional design theories that led him to build bikes from items as diverse as saucepans and rollerblades.

Cycling luminary Chris Hoy and members of Obree’s family contribute to a "fitting testimony to a remarkable and engagingly eccentric athlete", who already had been the subject of Douglas Mackinnon's 2006 film, The Flying Scotsman, in which Trainspotting star Jonny Lee Miller played Obree.

Tickets for Battle Mountain: Graeme Obree's Story are on sale on 0871 902 5726, at picturehouses.co.uk or in person at the Coney Street Picturehouse.

York Press:

York Cycleworks competition prizes

COURTESY of City Screen and York Cycleworks, The Press has a York Cycleworks shirt, mug and cycling casquette to be won.

Question: By which nickname is cyclist Graeme Obree known?

Send your answer with your name, address and daytime phone number, either on a postcard to Charles Hutchinson, Obree Competition, The Press, 76-86 Walmgate, York, YO1 9YN, or by email to charles.hutchinson@nqyne.co.uk, by next Friday. Usual competition rules apply.