This beautiful piece of film captures the very moments when a great champion, in this case Eddy Merckx, passes that point when they are invincible, or at least become beatable.
In cycling, like boxing and tennis, it can often be an abrupt and stark moment of fallibility played out in the full glare of the public.
Here Fripp and the boys soundtrack the moment when Bernard Thévenet hunted 'The Cannibal' and put the sunken eyed, nearly delirious Belgian to the sword in the Alpine resort Pra Loup.