Old bikes & how far we've come

[nobleswood]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFfaFx-DZo8

This is a short film, the sort they would show before the main feature film came on at the Cinema.

Enjoy !

[oldbike54]

 The Look at Life mini-docs were some of the best ever made . Thanks for posting this 

 Dusty

[Pizza Guzzi]

Thanks , that was really enjoyable.
One quote from the narrator still rings true - " control, the difference between life and death ."

Glenn

[Chuck in Indiana]

All of the Triumphs kept running..  <running and ducking>

[larrys]

I like the flathead 500cc Triumph twins the cops were riding. Brother-in-law has one in military trim. MV Agustas and Manxes at the Isle of Man! Yeah!
Larry

[JJ]

Great vintage clip!   Thanks for sharing!    I like those yellow RAC bikes at the end!

[bodine99]

And thanks to AHRMA and George Barber we can still get to watch and hear the old jalopies zoom on a closed course!!!
Great video thanks!!!

[lrutt]

Thing is, when a new bike fails on the road, it's usually really DOA. No kicker and lectronics will pretty much strand you. Those old bikes with kickers, points, and carbs, you can almost always get yourself home. Speaking from Experience the only bikes that have ever stranded me were the ones with lectronics. The old ones always got me home.

I guess that's progress.     I know everyone will say, maintenance....Seri ously, cleaning and setting points is tough? Setting valves on the old bikes is certainly easier than the new ones. 

[John Croucher]

"Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents"  Sounds like a Monty Python skit. 

Tattoo's, leather and dirty clothes have replaced dress coats, neck ties, dresses and wool sweaters on the spectators at the Isle of Man. 

[Ncdan]

Very enjoyable video and special because I was riding during that era.

[giusto]

Thanks for that.

Very cool.

[elvisboy77]

Yes, wow, thanks!

[Sasquatch Jim]

 I let it plain and watched the history of scrambles racing and history of racing in the sixties
and seventies by Malcolm Smith.  Many of you my remember him, He was one of my idols of the day. an outstanding way to waste three hours on a cold winter day.