Ride the Divide

Tue., July 20, 8 p.m., $12.50, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

by Lauren Macaluso

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Bike lovers, hear this: The Tour Divide is a 2,700-mile-long race equivalent to climbing Everest seven times. That's a whole lot of peddling. Director Hunter Weeks chronicled the race, which spans from Canada to Mexico, in his film Ride the Divide, focusing on three cyclists who took on the challenge. Think you Philly bikers could handle it? Sure, we have potholes, cobblestones and worthless, unused trolley tracks, but this is a ride through the Rocky Mountains. Not to mention, you'd be completely alone. Producer and Philly native Joe Cantwell says the pull to watch the film for people who don't cycle is the spirit of the sport. "The idea that people can do extreme things on two wheels with just human power and take on outrageous challenges, the attraction is universal," he says. Singer-songwriter Amy Petty will grace the stage before the screening to play her songs featured in the film; Weeks and world-class mountain biker Reuben Kline will also be in attendance.