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Spokes
Rating: 3 Stars
Directed by Chris Steele. Written by Jack Shamama and Michael Stabile. Videography by John Simms. Edited by Garcia Stevenson. Music by E.M. Diaz. Starring Tyler Marks, Derrick Vinyard, Ralph Woods, Pierre Fitch, Ross Stuart, Justin Wells, Dakota Rivers, Jeremy Hall, and Mason Wyler.
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Spokes, Falcon's 1983 bicycle-club classic, remains memorable for its freewheeling, round-robin sex, and for the late Leo Ford's star turn. The recent, popular Spokes III falls somewhere in quality between the uninhibited original and Spokes 2: The Graduation, a so-so sequel made in 1988.

The functional scenario by Wet Palms team Jack Shamama and Michael Stabile sticks to the premise: "Spokes" is a cycling club that admits new members at a yearly bacchanal held in a barn, where senior members have their way with inductees. As Leo Ford tells prospective Spokesman Mark Hunter in a clip from the first film, "Any one of us can do anything we want to you." (The statement carries unassailable conviction in the pre-condom original.)

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Here the initiates are healthy farm boy Ross Stuart and clean, fit Mason Wyler. Both are closeted, even to each other. Their initiation into the club is a kind of coming-out party, though the script leaves that aspect of the story underdeveloped. During the orgy, Stuart gets lost in the shuffle; Wyler, who has earlier balked at club members' advances, suddenly sucks cock and gets gang-fucked, front and center, as if pursuing old, much-practiced favorite pastimes. Chris Steele directs the barn jamboree and two preceding sex scenes with his customary flair, though he might have paid more attention to the cyclists' form-fitting black shorts and zippered shirts, the uniform that helps make the Tour de France an annual wet dream.