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So i'm watching the documentary "On Any Sunday".  On the road coarse, there's a line of dirt on the corner (looks like it's put there to mark the turn?)  Were they insane putting sand on the track?  it's just insane.  and the tires were so skinny!!!

You mean like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-151wFnhtE

I love that film, but with the music sometimes I think I'm watching an "Emmanuelle" movie instead  [laugh]

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+1 on the Edward Abbey quote BTW
Carry on

Yeah, what's up with that?

and tons of it...

those old bikes liked to leave their dino juice all over the track and that was before the days of oil retaining lowers.

Thats an amazing documentary.

But yeah that music is right out of soft porn or something.

Dust to Glory is Very good as well.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386423/

Yup, like that...

And oil dry is one thing, but don't you throw that down, sop it up, and clean it off? 



And as to the music, it's much more suited to Endless Summer, than a motorcycle doc.

ok, anybody critiquing "on any sunday" is required to post whether they were even born when it was made.

Nope, but then again, i'm not critiquing it just looks nuts to me... Maybe sand is preferable to oil, but i don't want either on a racetrack, particularly in a corner.  It had to effect times.

Not that i've ever been on a racetrack.

i was eleven when it was in theaters, but probably didn't see it until I was in my early twenties.

I love the music during the beginning of the flat track segment. A bit overly dramatic. But cool nonetheless.

Yep, that was indeed oil-dry.
Things were a bit less formal back in the day... so, not necessarily a clean up afterward.
Riders were men not sissy little schoolgirls (I keed, I keed).  ;)

Best moto movie evar!
Sound track is like Endless Summer 'cause Bruce Brown was director/producer/narrator of that movie too.  ;D

I especially enjoyed Malcolm Smith zipping in and out of the gaps in the barbed wire fence.  [thumbsup]

<and yes, I'm old enough to critique it  [laugh] >

yup.


...which was done by bruce brown's son, dana.  [thumbsup]

But what's with Lawill dragging his right toe on a turn early in that segment? Looks like he's got his heel on the peg and is rotating his foot down to the track. Was it just getting jealous of all the ground time his left foot got on flat tracks?

Excellent film for sure! [moto] [thumbsup] I first saw that when I was a little kid.

That's why i mentioned it. ;)   [bacon]

That's how it was before tires and chassis were good enough to get knee.

Where's that pic of Mike Hailwood's boots?

Not only was I already born at the time but I was already working in bike shops and racing a bit. How's that? Practically as old as dirt huh? The music was right in line with most surf films at the time and some of the film footage of On Any Sunday borrowed from the style of John Frankenheimer's  movie Gran Prix, another dinosaur movie, but still good IMO.

Before knee dragging we used to stick the toe of our boot out to gauge lean. Once having done that you would then adjust how much toe angle to stick out up to the point of feeling traction go. Tire technology was definitely in it's stone age then. It still blows me away how much we can get away with tires today.

Yep, I'm old enough too. I was in college and in the process of buying my first big bike (750) that would actually live at my house and our little group of "Cafe Racers" was just getting into club racing. It really does seem like yesterday.  We were Euro snobs - all on Euro twins and just about to get introduced to our first Ducati twins. There wasn't a full face helmet among us and English/German racing goggles and knee high boots were the order of the day.

Those guys were like gods to us back then. [clap]

LA

Just started watching this last night.  It is pretty good, and no, I wasn't alive when it was filmed.  It is up on Hulu.com now, and pretty good video quality.


mitt

Up on hulu? Sweeeet.  :)

Wouldn't "soft porn" have taken the music from them?

This was the only one I could find.

(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/chiflado/mike1.jpg)

Guess I found my Sunday afternoon movie for this week.

Isn't this soft porn for people who likes bikes and racing?

The new one or the original? ;D

Saw it in the theaters on it's first run =)  This movie pretty much got me into motorcycles, though it would be a few years later when I bought my first.

Old guys back then used to say how much harder it all was back in their day, what with wooden tracks and all.  My ex-father in-law raced at Avalon in the 50s.

Thanks for the Hulu tip...I'll be watching it again soon.

http://www.hulu.com/embed/pZJo9e7Cn8VV0RSwC2ub9A (http://www.hulu.com/embed/pZJo9e7Cn8VV0RSwC2ub9A)

From racing goggles to hip replacements, huh, Larry?  It must suck getting old.  (http://smiley.onegreatguy.net/poke.gif)

I guess I'm old enough to critique the thing too.  I was four when it came out.   ;D  It's definitely one of my all-time favorites.  I still want one of these new Lawwill Street Trackers everytime I think about it.

I'd rather watch "Faster" if we're gonna spout off about cycle movies, though.

I was in my late 20's and saw it in a theater. There was no motorcycle racing in the metro NY area, so the movie opened up a whole new world.

Then, around the same time, the AMA ran one Half-Mile at a harness racing track On Long Island (Roosevelt Raceway). What I remember about that night is the sound of all those Harleys, the way they slid through the turns so close to each other, and seeing Bart Markel race.

thats one of my favorite movies of all time (and I was born in 87...), the oil dry thing is still done like that to an extent.  I've been at a few tracks where they leave it down if its not right in the race line especially if its a LONG line of oil.  Hell I was in the middle of a race at Talladega when I saw the corner worker setting a fire on the race track!  Apparently somebody had crashed and dumped some gas so if its well off he race line they strike a match and burn it up.  Makes sense now but when your racing for position and your braking for a corner and see a fire in the track its a little freaky.

anyway, I pop On Any Sunday in the DVD player in my garage occasionally when I'm working on a bike, its the perfect background movie for mechanicin'

Italian Spiderman is gonna be pissed when he learns they ripped off some of his soundtrack music!

Is that the movie with Lawwill in it?

"On Any Sunday" has an extended segment on Lawwill.

You kids are killin' me.  [laugh]

Yep, Lawwill is in it.

I asked because I have owned two mountain bikes with Lawill suspension designs. I still have one of them. I sold the other one to a guy in Japan for $6K USD. Good stuff [thumbsup].

Little thread jack, but some cool Mert history.

Check out the years of all these designs...unbelievable.


http://www.dkg-cnc.com/museum.html (http://www.dkg-cnc.com/museum.html)

Because of this thread, I watched it again last night.  It is on Netflix instant.  He has such a great documentary style - downright hilarious in spots.

I was 3 when part II came out.
My folks didn't take me to see it though.