Reverse Gear Blog

No this is not our opinions of how you should “parent” your children. It is however a notification that recumbent riding and the wearing of REVERSE Gear is about to make it into mainstream TV programming - on a new show called PARENTHOOD.

While we were travelling in Florida in March we received a call from a young woman asking for help on how to enter a credit card transaction into our shopping cart. When we explained the use of PayPal she informed us that the purchase was not for herself but for the wardrobe department of NBC. She explained that she was trying to purchase a  jersey for a recumbent rider in an upcoming episode that was being filmed the following Friday. Not wanting to delay shipment while we sorted the payment options out, we shipped her a Mulga-3 jersey and a pair of the unique Ironbark shorts immeditaely. A few days later we signed the release forms.

We are no doubt thrilled that someone can/will ride a recumbent on a popular genre show. The exposure will be good for the industry overall. We are even more excited that the rider will be properly attired in a spiffy tri-color recumbent-specific jersey with front zipped pockets and classic lycra shorts for the shoot. We know that shoots can take a long time and we are confident that Phil Abrams who plays Phil Lessing in the show will be comfortable for however long it takes for his ride across our small screens.

The character Phil Lessing has already made his first appearance in Episode Two of the 2010 premiere of Parenthood.

We consider ourselves very fortunate that we had just bought a new TV in early March so that we can now receive the free-to-air post-conversion HDTV signals in our RV. So when Phil graces the screen in bright blue and orange on May 4. 2010 we will actually get to see him. We hope you will too.

Let us know what you think of recumbent riding in mainstream television by posting your comments below.

The following is from the summary of the show provided by NBC:
“Parenthood” is a one‐hour drama inspired by the box‐office comedy hit of the same name about the Braverman family.  The dynamic star‐studded cast includes Peter Krause, Lauren Graham, Craig T. Nelson, Dax Shepard, Bonnie Bedelia, Monica Potter and Erika Christensen. Executive producers are Oscar winners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer (”A Beautiful Mind,” “Frost/Nixon”), and Jason Katims (”Friday Night Lights”), who wrote the pilot episode. Emmy winner Thomas Schlamme (”The West Wing”) is the director and executive producer of the pilot. “Parenthood” is from Imagine Television and Universal Media Studios.

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