Your Favorite Motorcycle Movie ?

[Dave Swanson]

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

Nick

I just re-watched One Week last week! 

I love this movie.  It's a great Canadian travelogue.   A very well crafted story with all sorts of thought provoking moments. Joshua Jackson did a great job.  And as a nice bonus it's fantastic that there is a Norton Commando throughout. 

[LowRyter]

I just re-watched One Week last week! 

I love this movie.  It's a great Canadian travelogue.   A very well crafted story with all sorts of thought provoking moments. Joshua Jackson did a great job.  And as a nice bonus it's fantastic that there is a Norton Commando throughout.

I haven't since it, it looks like a tear jerker.   

[Moparnut72]

The World's Fastest Indian was a good movie even though there were a lot of liberties taken. The book is a must read and really goes into why he did some of the things he did. Such as Burt made a lot of his parts from plow shares not because he couldn't afford to buy steel but the steel in plow shares was of very high quality. He used second hand tires not because he couldn't afford new but 2nd hand were mostly bald and would have less drag. The book is one of my favorites. Again it is a great read.
kk

[moto]

Cycles South .

 Dusty

I just finished watching Cycles South on YouTube, having never heard of it. It was really enjoyable! I had many of the same experiences about the same time (1971), at least the ones north of the border. It was almost like living it all again. Thanks for the mention of it.

Here's the link: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlffbM2qcqhJbJLwVJRaBiWXdkmCEy5UR

Moto

[oldbike54]

I just finished watching Cycles South on YouTube, having never heard of it. It was really enjoyable! I had many of the same experiences about the same time (1971), at least the ones north of the border. It was almost like living it all again. Thanks for the mention of it.

Here's the link: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlffbM2qcqhJbJLwVJRaBiWXdkmCEy5UR

Moto

 Next to OAS it is my favorite . Low budget , and at times a little silly , but it is a movie that is actually about motorcycles and motorcycling . *The Thrill is on* is another little known movie about the sport .

 Dusty

 

[LowRyter]

The World's Fastest Indian was a good movie even though there were a lot of liberties taken. The book is a must read and really goes into why he did some of the things he did. Such as Burt made a lot of his parts from plow shares not because he couldn't afford to buy steel but the steel in plow shares was of very high quality. He used second hand tires not because he couldn't afford new but 2nd hand were mostly bald and would have less drag. The book is one of my favorites. Again it is a great read.
kk

The DVD version also includes the original documentary.  So the real vs movie stuff is all there.

[Waterbottle]

Australian Movie from 1974     Stone
https://dai.ly/x3bngr3

[MikeW]

My first pick is the film "The Black Rider" released in 1954. It's not my favorite bike movie but it's got British bikes, smugglers, haunted ruins and a love story. What more could you want. They would even have got away with it if not for those meddling kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2AHv8pKsvA&t=576s

My second pick is "The Girl on a Motorcycle" released in 1968. This is a British - French movie starring Marianne Faithfull. It was the first film to receive an X rating in the United States where it was released as "Naked Under Leather".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ObFI6LXwo&t=952s

Popular culture certainly changed dramatically in just 14 years 

Mike

[Blaufeld66]

1 Easy Rider
2 Oil in the Blood
3 The World's Fastest Indian
4 Wild Hogs
5 TT: Closer to the Edge
6 The Wild One
7 The Motorcycle Diaries
8 Biker Boyz (cheesy, but... MORPHEUS!!! SUZUKI HAYABUSA!!! WEST COAST RAP!!!)

[skippy]

"One Week"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpyy8EIU8hg

Thanks for the link. I went looking for it last night. Netlix, nope. Amazon Prime, i could have bought it or rented. Then I thought to check youtube. What was comical was that the purchase one came up first but right below was the same one you sent.
I enjoyed it. The riding kind of reminded me of my own road trips since a rarely ride with anyone. The road side photo scenes gave me a chuckle for the same reason, though he did take more photos than I typically manage, much to my wife's annoyance.


Skippy

[oldbike54]

 Slightly surprising that no one has mentioned "Mask" .

 Dusty

[nick949]

Thanks for the link. I went looking for it last night. Netlix, nope. Amazon Prime, i could have bought it or rented. Then I thought to check youtube. What was comical was that the purchase one came up first but right below was the same one you sent.
I enjoyed it. The riding kind of reminded me of my own road trips since a rarely ride with anyone. The road side photo scenes gave me a chuckle for the same reason, though he did take more photos than I typically manage, much to my wife's annoyance.


Skippy

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

[philwarner]

Wow, I am going to have to find this one. The trailer was very compelling.

Skippy

I watched the trailer and the next one up was the whole movie on you tube.  I paused it but I'll have to go back and see the whole thing.

I second "on any sunday" and "the world's fastest indian"  I still have a mental image of Malcolm with his bike nearly vertical on a big bolder and then backing up to make the turn and going on without a second thought.

Update:
  I plugged the laptop into our 55" Toshiba, turned on the big sound, and watched "One Week" with my wife and then looked for "On any Sunday" and watched that too.  BTW, It was a dirt bank and not a bolder Malcolm half-climbed and backed down from.

Thanks for the idea for a nice time on a dull, grey afternoon.

[oldbike54]

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

 Rented it at our Hastings records and book store when it became available , how quaint that seems now . Same with World's Fastest Indian , which honestly I thought was about Jim Thorpe .

 Dusty

[randy yocum]

"Then came Bronson",the movie and television program had a big influence on me a 14 year old kid,(riding my first mc a Honda Mini Trail 50,) when it came out in 1969.Made me think seriously about traveling cross country on a motorcycle and all the adventures you could have.Still doing just that 50 years later,I still love the show,but my copy of the TV show and movie were recorded off TNT and are not very good quality.Does anybody know where to find the movie and TV series in HD?

[LowRyter]

I'm just glad no one said "Billy Jack".   

[sign216]

I was always fond of

The Motorcycle Diaries -  a 2004 biopic about the journey and written memoir of the 23-year-old Ernesto Guevara, who would several years later become internationally known as the iconic Marxist guerrilla leader and revolutionary Che Guevara.  The film recounts the 1952 expedition, initially by motorcycle, across South America by Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado.

It's in Spanish, subtitled in English.


This gets my vote.  And of course a more American film, Easy Rider.

Joe
 

Anyone ever seen Electra Glide In Blue ?

Wild Hogs ???

 

[T4halo]

Not “Stone Cold”.   Brian Bosworth was horrible.
Not “CC Rider”.    Joe Namath was a good QB


Worlds Fastest Indian
On any Sunday
Gumball Rally
Every Which Way but Loose (Them’s Black Widows)
Magnum Force
The Gauntlet.

[hzbloke]

"I Fidanzati Della Morte" (Engaged to Death). An Italian film from 1957. Not my favourite motorcycle film (that's probably Stone from 1974 and mainly because Rebecca Gilling takes her shirt off) but a beaut curiosity. It's a convoluted story about cheating husbands, the Monza Moto GP, the 1300km Milan to Taranto race and the development of the Moto Guzzi V8 engine. Many of the famous riders of the day appear in the film and lots of it was shot in the Guzzi factory and their famous wind tunnel. The print was restored in 2017.

[SIR REAL ED]

Faster, the original.

https://youtu.be/tEMmKyR11yM

Pete

That whole series of documentaries are excellent. 
1.  Faster. 
2.  Fastest. 
3.  the Doctor, the Texas Tornado, and the Kentucky Kid.
4.  Hitting the Apex.

but perhaps the best, other than On Any Sunday is The John Penton Story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsDLrdryBfY

oh yeah, also Billy Jack, the Born Losers!

[SIR REAL ED]

I've heard V-Four Victory is great but have not seen it.

the documentary about racing electric motorcycles at the Isle of Mann, Charge is well worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rogV80QfLYQ

[Gliderjohn]

Okay not a motorcycle movie but the naked gal with the long blond hair gently tooling around on a small dirt bike was hard to beat (no pun intended) in Vanishing Point.
GliderJohn

[Knuckle Dragger]

OK, not really a "movie" per se, but still the 2014 doco "Road" is a firm favourite.  It documents the last, dying (literal) vestiges of genuine Road Racing in the world:  that of the Ulster & Manx road races, and the vainglorious madmen who dice with death in a very real & visceral manner.

These few genuine lunatic heroes, not just the extended Dunlop family, not even the motley crew of locals & daredevils, but those generations that have come before, have balls so big that I'm amazed they can still fit behind their fuel tanks!  Try some random YouTube IOM TT "dashcam" footage for a genuine dose of sheer terror.  It's not known as the world's most dangerous racetrack for nothing.

For sheer entertainment value, I think that the fictional "Stone" (1974) & "Mad Max" (1979) also have a nicely unsanitised & unglamourous take on the thrills & spills of biking.

[Dave Swanson]

I haven't since it, it looks like a tear jerker.   

Not a tear jerker.  Just a good thoughtful movie with just a bit of B movie vibe to it. 

[LowRyter]

Not a tear jerker.  Just a good thoughtful movie with just a bit of B movie vibe to it.

I assume the guy is still stick or dead in the end.

[inditx]

All that have been mentioned and the Kindness Diaries https://www.netflix.com/title/80156137

[Ncdan]

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.

[oldbike54]

 Once a Jolly Swagman , speedway racing in England after the war .

 Dusty

[geodoc]

Just an ad, not a movie, but with major Guzzi content:

https://youtu.be/fYQ-uiKbk6E

[Seventy One]

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.