Film

[johnr]

i also got an asian import of the dvd of worlds fastest indian, for the sole reason that it contains the documentry 'offerings to the gods of speed' that is the original burt munroe story, it was shown on tv in nz in the 1980's and the films producer saw it when he was a teenager and thought that if he had the chance he might like to make the film of munroes life story one day. the doc isnt on most of the uk dvds but i knew it was on the southern hemisphere versions of the film. and tbh, its more entertaining than the film itself!

Can you make me a copy.

i believe its on youtube now if you look, its only a 30 or 40 min doc, but its fabulous!

[blew]

Electra Glide in Blue??

[pigafetta]

'I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle'

[Mark]

'Girl on a motorcycle' Marianne Faithfull.

Get you chocolates ready for this one.

[Richard]

But neither 'Girl on a Motorcycle' or 'I bought a Vampire Motorcycle' are about the sporting side.  The former is pretty rubbish really, the latter a cult movie that I got free tickets to the premier of, so popular was it.  I enjoyed it hugely.

What about films of the cafe racer era then ?  Couple of good ones there.

Richard

[SRXweb]

"Continental Circus" from Jérôme Laperrousaz.
The 1969 season of GP with Jack Findlay, Ago, and the others.
It follows the season of Findlay (the eternal private pilote) and his girlfriend, Nanou and his Matchless G50. The music is from Gong.

"Burt Monroe" : some kind of competition. Very good dialogs : "hey burt, what happened if you open your mouth a such a speed ?" "A big hole in your trousers" 

[SRXweb]

"Le Cheval de Fer" from Pierre-William Glenn (who is french ...) the 1974 season of GP : with Patrick PONS, Michel ROUGERIE, Rene GUILI, Bernard FAU, Phil READ, Giacomo AGOSTINI and the others...

[trophydave]

What about films of the cafe racer era then ?  Couple of good ones there.
Richard

The Leather Boys 

[Richard]

Great film

[SRXweb]

"Quadrophenia", music from The Who, with Sting.

In "The knack ... and how to get it" I think there are Cafe Racers but I am not sure.

Here's a list of film where Motorbike took place (with a help from Moto Revue Classic, a french vintage bike magazine :

Motor Psycho, a Russ Meyer film
Sisters in leather
Short cuts
Naked under leather
The great escape
Officer and gentleman
Rusty james
Arizona junior
Indiana Jones (the one with Sir Sean Connery)
Un american a Roma
Beach party (first apparition of japanese bikes ?)
Sun and sex
Erotissimo
Le Gitan
New generation
Scratch
Big Jake
Magnum force
Sfera della moorte
Irene
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro man
How to stuff a wild bikini (!)
Dixie dynamite
Fast Charlie
Hanover street
If
R.P.M
Zeppelin
Who dares wins
Purple rain

And many others. Most of them are what we call in France "des Nanards", so bad that its a shame to pronounce their titles 

[pigafetta]

Psychomania. Bloody awful film but a good watch nevertheless 

[guest40]

Lawrence of Arabia
Lil Faus and Big Halsey
Reach for the Sky
The wild one
Roustabout
The Eagle has landed

and who could forget "STONE"

[SRXweb]

Ah, Lawrence of Arabia and his Brough Superior.

You know that we, the french, are not very found of foreign languages. And all foreign movies are dubbed (is it correct for dubbing ?).

I don't know if it cames from dubbing but the sound of motorcycles in movies are totally insane : a four trocke sportbike have the sound of a motocross 2 strocke 250 cc, sometimes one bike sounds like a 2 stroke and 2 mn after it sounds like a 4 stroke.

I hate this. Can you imagine a Harley Davidson sounds like an Elsinore ?

[Richard]

Instead of like a tractor with a holed exhaust.....

[guest7]

Leather Boys is a great movie, got a copy on DVD here. Shot partly on location at the Ace.

Also another daft Brit 60s teen movie 'Some People' has a pretty unconvincing bike gang but some evocative shots of bikes whizzing around Bristol.
Here's a song from the film:

I want to get a copy of Continental Circus, it looks great. The crash section is a bit sobering though:

GC