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Best motorcycle movie?

After I read this I was at the mall with the girlfriend, and we stopped by the FYE store, I looked in the clearance bin and found
Street Hawk.
1980s TV series, 13 episodes long, have yet to watch it, but seems good for an 80's cop movie, haha
Cant embed, so I have to link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCItnKrXvMM

I may have to be drunk to fully enjoy it without making fun of it :twofinger
 
TIME RIDER
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Meter Man said:
I am watching Cycles South Right now, kind of a Endless Summer for Motorcyclists, and it has nude motorcycle riding.

You can watch all of these on Netflix Streaming:

Cycles South
Worlds Fastest Indian
On A Sunday
Dust to Glory
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Okay, watched Cycles South on NetFlix. Very inspiring what those guys did on crummy bikes and little money. Loads of adventure enabled by positive attitude. :thumbup

Movie is kind of dated and dumb and sexist, but that just makes it more charming. :laughing Kind of reminds me of the days of Warren Miller movies where Warren stood at a podium delivering live narration. :laughing
 
The Wild One is campy fun!:thumbup
 
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flying_hun said:
Okay, watched Cycles South on NetFlix. Very inspiring what those guys did on crummy bikes and little money. Loads of adventure enabled by positive attitude. :thumbup

Movie is kind of dated and dumb and sexist, but that just makes it more charming. :laughing Kind of reminds me of the days of Warren Miller movies where Warren stood at a podium delivering live narration. :laughing
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I think it was mostly staged, but I still loved it.
 
Meter Man said:
I think it was mostly staged, but I still loved it.
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That's okay, so are Warren Miller movies. :laughing Doing all that off-road on those old 441 Victims, then chucking them all in for Kawasaki Bushmaters - brilliant! :party
 
theharlequin said:
+1 on world's fastest indian. it's a bit slow, but Anthony Hopkins is a savage, and Burt Munro was a savage. casted his own cylinders??? 200mph on a home-made bike. the movie has some fist-pump parts, for sure.

I don't care how many people make fun of me for saying this, but I thought Tron Legacy was AWESOME, and it has almost every reason I like motorcycles in it. GREAT motorcycle scenes.
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He cast his own pistons and connecting rods. The cylinders came from Springfield, Mass.

That was a great movie, but it was a condensation of many years of trips to Bonneville. The first being 1962, the record he set was some time in the 80's I think.

I was given a picture from 1962 by a guy who was there. Not a photo of the Indian (it's Jimmy Enz's Royal Enfield), but they shared pit space with Munro.

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Here's Mr. Munro Himself. (he also owned a Velocette)
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how about the movie Full Throttle?
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^^^cool scene, but WHYYYY did they film it like they are staring at the outside of the corner all the way through?? feels so wrong to watch
 
Carlo said:
I was given a picture from 1962 by a guy who was there. Not a photo of the Indian (it's Jimmy Enz's Royal Enfield), but they shared pit space with Munro.

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Isn't that his Indian behind them? (#35)
 
I just watched One Week on Netflix, a Canadian flick of a terminally ill guy riding across Canada on a Norton Commando. Nothing special, but it puts the moto in perspective for most mortals.
 
moto vader said:
I just watched One Week on Netflix, a Canadian flick of a terminally ill guy riding across Canada on a Norton Commando. Nothing special, but it puts the moto in perspective for most mortals.
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hey, we just watched that too!!
 
Blassreiter (Pale Rider)... wait, that's an anime series. But if you have Netflix, check it out. :teeth
 
Splicer said:
Isn't that his Indian behind them? (#35)
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That was my point. In he process of getting pictures of their wives at Bonneville, the Enfield guys captured a bit of History. This was Burt Munro's first year at Bonneville, and contrary to how they depicted it in the movie, he had a lot of help from many people, including Sammy Pierce (Indian dealer in LA) and Cooper Motors, the West Coast Enfield distributor, among others.

There were a lot of people on those days who really wanted to see an Indian do well at Bonneville, and if this old man from New Zealand was willing to give it a try, they'd help him all they could.
He made the trip every year until he passed away.
 
Anyone seen Quadrophenia? I haven't yet, but intend to.
 
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