page_title: Full Cycle: A World Odyssey
section_title: Reception
hierarchical_section_title: Full Cycle: A World Odyssey / Recognition / Reception
caption_attribution_description: English: Jason Borner plunges backwards off a boat to become the world's first underwater mountain biker, Costa Rica, 1994. Photograph by Patty Mooney, Crystal Pyramid Productions, San Diego, California.
context_page_description: 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, Jacquie Phelan and World Trials Champion, Ot Pi of Barcelona. Summit Magazine, among other publications, referred to it as the Endless Summer on Wheels.
context_section_description: In 1994, Post Magazine wrote, "[This show] features several world's firsts: first Westerners to travel (and bicycle) through the Himalayas of North Sikkim, India; first to ride a mountain bike 60 feet under the Pacific Ocean, and in a semi-active volcano in Costa Rica; first to document nine-times world's champion bicycle trials rider, Ot Pi, performing stunts near and around historical landmarks in Athens, Greece."
  In 1995, VeloNews reviewed the documentary, saying 
  Yeah, okay, so who wouldn't want to do it, right? Pack up all your cares and woes, go and tweak your boss's nose, bye, bye, day shift.  Really. It's the great American dream.  Pack up and ship out for parts unknown with your significant other and your bicycle.  What a rush.  It's life.  It's adventure.  It's your chance to finally learn what really does sit just around the next corner on the best single-tracks in Canada and Great Britain and Switzerland ... or the more exotic Greece, or even more exotic Costa Rica, or - add a new level of exotica here - Tahiti or India.  Come on.  Who wouldn't? ... Mark Schulze and Patricia Mooney did what the rest of us merely dream of: They chased their dreams and front forks around the world and lived to shoot video about it, made a show ... and now get to write it all off ... The videography of the work is spectacular.  How the crew of five videographers - one occasionally shooting from a SteadiCam - captured the shots they did is truly beyond me.  There are scenes where I could swear a crane was used for effect, when, in fact, there was no way to humanly get a crane into that location.  In short, it is beautifully shot.
  Catherine Applefeld wrote in Billboard:  This documentary/travelog is the result of the production crew meeting up with the featured husband-and-wife cycling team as they traversed the globe MTV Sports-style in search of the best mountain bike ride on earth ... This sweeping overview provides some terrific footage of a variety of landscape, as well as plenty of action for cycling enthusiasts.  Billboard also said Mark Schulze and Patty Mooney can knock you out with a real sense of "wow," including highlights of trials champ Ot Pi doin' his thang at the Parthenon and a treacherous helmet-cam descent into a volcano.
  Video Columnist, Robert J. Hawkins, penned a story about Full Cycle in The San Diego Union-Tribune Sunday supplement called Night & Day, saying 
  Back in February 1993, we introduced you to filmmakers Mark Schulze and Patricia Mooney, a husband and wife who share many passions, among them mountain biking and travel.  They were even married in a San Diego County park, on mountain bikes.  Schulze and Mooney were in the early stages of a fantastic and improbable project back then.  They wanted to travel the world in search of the best mountain-biking trails.  They would, of course, film their odyssey and turn it into a documentary.  It took three years, a quarter-million dollars and 75 hours of Betacam SP tape footage -- but they completed their quest ... Schulze and Mooney came back with more than spectacular scenery, of which there is an abundance here.  They manage, too, to convey the joy they experience in getting out on two wheels on an open trail.  They've created an Endless Summer for the mountain-biking crowd.
  OCSD Film & Video News wrote a front-page story about New & Unique Videos in its November 1995 issue, mentioning "movie star James Hong of Blade Runner and Wayne's World II and his family take viewers on a fun-filled mountain bike ride through their Hollywood Hills neighborhood."
  Of World Odyssey, Video Alert wrote ''Full Cycle: A World Odyssey" is the "Endless Summer" of mountain bike videos as Mark Schulze and Patty Mooney crisscross the globe in search of, not the perfect wave, but the perfect trail. ... at the heart of Full Cycle is a freewheeling love story seemingly straight out of a Hollywood screenplay.  Yes, Mark and Patty really did get married on their mountain bikes.
  The Rotarian noted in 1996 that Schulze and Mooney "combined their interests and talents" to create the Wor
caption: Jason Borner, World's First Underwater Mountain Biker, Costa Rica, 1994
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