Your Favorite Motorcycle Movie ?

[Denis]

Fast Charlie the Moon Beam rider.  DonG

That one is a fun movie!

[SemperVee]

 Magnum with Clint Eastwood.  Extensive footage of police on Guzzi's around the Bay area!

[Huzo]

1.Mondo Enduro.
2. Terra Circa.
3. Cycles South.
4. Riding Solo at the Top of the World.
5. One Crazy Ride.

Honorable mention: Pink Angels and Easy Rider.

I must be in the minority but I disliked both Long way around and Long way down.

#4 Sounds good.
What did you not like with LWR ?

[not-fishing]

And for something completely different.......... ..

Kino's Beautiful Journey

Traveling by Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle

Talking to your motorcycle and it talking back

Using revolvers

What could be better?



yes I admit it, in my old age I'm devolving and becoming more childlike (until the curmudgeon reappears)

[drw916]

Worlds Fastest Indian
Little Fauss and  Big Halsey
On Any Sunday

[moto]

And for something completely different.......... ..

Kino's Beautiful Journey

Traveling by Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle

Talking to your motorcycle and it talking back

Using revolvers

What could be better?

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yes I admit it, in my old age I'm devolving and becoming more childlike (until the curmudgeon reappears)

What a great suggestion. We love anime around my house, and Hulu has the series, called "Kino's Journey." Time for a free trial subscription!

Thanks!

Moto

[Numbercruncher]

1)  Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man.

2)  Timerider.  Saw this at the age of 12.  I don't know if I would enjoy it today.

NC

[Seventy One]

#4 Sounds good.
What did you not like with LWR ?

Both of 'em were a bit contrived/staged IMO. Ted Simon was literally flown in for his scene in Mongolia. Stuff like that just rubbed me the wrong way. LWD was much better after they stopped trying to ride those really long days to reach that ferry. It also had a bit of a reality show/ manufactured drama aspect to it. Ewans unending cussing was tiring. They didn't seem to having much fun through most of it.

Both movies by Gaurav Jani ('Riding Solo at the Top of the World' and 'One Crazy Ride') are absolutely exceptional. Watch these and both LWR and LWD will look like an episode of 'American Chopper'. These are gritty films. I loved the Enfeilds which were used. Both movies are immersive and well filmed. I had to find these movies used.

I'm currently reading Mondo Enduro. This was the daily diary the guys kept as they rode around the world. What was in the 2.5hr movie was only the tip of the iceberg. I highly recommend the book in addition to the movie.

I know there's a book version of 'Long War Around'. Maybe I'll read that one day as well. Maybe this trip wasn't quite as contrived as it appeared on film.

'Pink Angels' is on the list because it's cinematic rubbish. It's a cheese burger and chili fries. It's good, but also no good. Appreciation of the highs requires knowledge of the lows. Also, I just like Michael Pataki. He was in this movie as well as 'Easy Rider'. Dan Haggarty is also in it. The movie has more than a few tie-ins with 'Easy Rider'. I find it hilarious that Easy Rider has been preserved by the Library of Congress for future generations and a year later 'Pink Angels' was made with many of the same people.

[ozarquebus]

Not a Guzzi and not a motorcycle movie but at 1hr 48min of the Netflix movie THE MASTER, they ride a 50s(?) Triumph single hard on a dry lake bed with good moving camera shots.

[Demar]

Magnum with Clint Eastwood.  Extensive footage of police on Guzzi's around the Bay area!

+1

I also liked Worlds Fastest Indian and Wild Hogs. Not a movie but as a kid watching Steve McQueen in The Great Escape I was in awe (I know he didn't do the fence jump).

I really liked The Best Bar in America. 

[guzzler]

Glad you enjoyed it. I thought the whole thing was there but overlooked it when I posted the trailer link.  Glad you were able to find it. It's time I watched it again.

To reiterate Skippy's post, the full movie 'One Week' is available here (free). https://youtu.be/Xpyy8EIU8hg


Nick

Thanks for the link mate!
I'd never heard of it before and just watched it.
Brilliant.
Cheers Guzzler

[Lannis]

Not a Guzzi and not a motorcycle movie but at 1hr 48min of the Netflix movie THE MASTER, they ride a 50s(?) Triumph single hard on a dry lake bed with good moving camera shots.

That IS a good motorcycle sequence.   I knew that Triumph hadn't made a single since the 20's or 30's, so (since I actually have Netflix of all things) I pulled it up to have a look.

The bike there has a Norton tank and is made up to look like a Norton single, but the actual engine, frame, and front end is a BSA M20 (I'm pretty sure because I have one and am familiar with it).

That's fairly rough ground to hammer a rigid-frame, girder-fork bike over, but if the sound track is actually coming from the motorcycle (and I don't know that it is, for some reason movie-makers seem to always use the sound from some other bike rather than the bike they're filming), then you can hear him change from the top of third gear to fourth, which with a modified engine geared for the track would be about 60 MPH ...

Lannis

[Ncdan]

This one started the “Bad Boy” biker movies and put Tom Laughlin in the spot lite for several years to come.
I saw it as a kid, love the ending when the Springfield split the white sunglasses.

[bobbyfromnc]

Without doubt, "One Week"  Here's a trailer: https://youtu.be/o_8190skpLw

Nick

I agree great movie.

[LowRyter]

Funny how the hero is on a classic Norton or Harley and never on a Honda.  Never a break down on the old iron.

[Ncdan]

Funny how the hero is on a classic Norton or Harley and never on a Honda.  Never a break down on the old iron.

Apparently you didn’t see Purple Rain😂😂😂🤣

[john fish]

My favs.

3  One Week

5  Electra Glide in Blue

Just watched One Week.  Good movie, thanks for the recommendation.

And Electra Glide In Blue is just a damn good movie-- even if it didn't have bikes, it would be good.

[wildebube]

On Any Sunday is in a class by itself, but I also really like Why We Ride.

[JJ]

The one that started it all for me..."Easy Rider!"

When I saw this in the theater, I was 15 years old, and riding my 2nd motorcycle, a 1967 black and chrome Honda S-90!!

[Tom]

The Clint Eastwood movie “Cougars Bluff” had the motorcycle chase scene that equals the car chase scene in “Bullit” those guys riding those Triumphs were great.

Coogan's Bluff.  Close    Don Stroud playing Ringerman.  Grew up in Waikiki.  He was a beachboy/surfer before getting into acting.  He was also in Joe Kidd again with Clint Eastwood.

[ozarquebus]

Many good motorcycle movies out there, but there is still room for someone to make the perfect motorcycle movie.
It  must meet the following criteria, IMO:

1. Star a Vintage  Moto Guzzi, of course.
2. Use authentic sounds.
3. Show extended authentic roadside maintenance scenes
4. Show emotional bonding with bike.
5. Include high speed scene.

What else?




Worlds Fastest Indian comes closest. I could start shooting with black and white 16mm whenever funding comes available. I can save money developing film in a washtub.

[Ncdan]

The one that started it all for me..."Easy Rider!"

When I saw this in the theater, I was 15 years old, and riding my 2nd motorcycle, a 1967 black and chrome Honda S-90!!

I saw the movie when I was 16, as a school assignment a CDP class. I’ll never forget the teacher, a young female, told us it would be an America classic. We had to do a report on it afterwards. She ask us what was the most sufficient moment or theme of the movie in our opinion.
I responded for me it was when Captain America removed his watch and threw it away. I received an A
for the assignment. Thanks for bringing the memory back👍

[Johncolleary]

On Any Sunday

[Lannis]

The one that started it all for me..."Easy Rider!"

When I saw this in the theater, I was 15 years old, and riding my 2nd motorcycle, a 1967 black and chrome Honda S-90!!

Never have seen "Easy Rider", never have had any desire to watch it.   Not sure why, I enjoy lots of cheesy and weird movies otherwise ....

Lannis

[JJ]

I saw the movie when I was 16, as a school assignment a CDP class. I’ll never forget the teacher, a young female, told us it would be an America classic. We had to do a report on it afterwards. She ask us what was the most sufficient moment or theme of the movie in our opinion.
I responded for me it was when Captain America removed his watch and threw it away. I received an A
for the assignment. Thanks for bringing the memory back👍

My old neighborhood buddy Mike, had a black & chrome Honda S-90, just like me, back in the day. 

We were both so upset at the movie's ending, when they killed Captain America and Billy, we came home, took off the exhaust pipes on our diminutive S-90's, and ran up and down the street making a lot of noise, in protest to that scene   

I can attest that a Honda S-90 with just the header pipe is one loud little bike! 

[kirby1923]

Back when that one came out it was the counter culture and I guess I was on the other side of the whole idea choppers and all.

Never had the desire to see it even to this day.

Kirby1923

[tazio]

That IS a good motorcycle sequence.   I knew that Triumph hadn't made a single since the 20's or 30's, so (since I actually have Netflix of all things) I pulled it up to have a look.

The bike there has a Norton tank and is made up to look like a Norton single, but the actual engine, frame, and front end is a BSA M20 (I'm pretty sure because I have one and am familiar with it).

 ...

Lannis

Triumph had singles in the 70's.

[Lannis]

Triumph had singles in the 70's.

They did.  BSA and Triumph sort of badge engineered their unit construction singles together starting mid sixties up to 1972.  But this movie one was a pre unit old timer, and Triumph stayed out of that business...

Lannis

[Huzo]

I must confess I don’t watch a lot of bike themed movies, mainly because there aren’t a lot around. But every time you see someone working on a bike in a movie or locked in dialogue, they always blurt out some poorly researched or inane drivel that just makes me squirm.
You know, something like the bloke who just tightened up the axle nut on a Z900 (in the wrong direction) and commented that he’d set the adjustment on the turbo or something equally cringe worthy.
At least the LWR boys didn’t overtly present themselves as greater than they actually were, I thought it was mildly inspiring as a series. It was not completely impossible to put yourself in their place, albeit a bit less grand but the driving motive behind their trip was enthralling for the most part..
I watched Stone on You Tube the other day and could not believe how corny it was...

[Mega_R]

I really enjoyed Faster. It's a documentary on the 2002 MotoGP season with Rossi & Biaggi rivalry.