on any sunday

[cgos4r]

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

[zedsaid]

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Sound track is like Endless Summer 'cause Bruce Brown was director/producer/narrator of that movie too. 
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That's why i mentioned it.    

[Speeddog]

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?

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

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

[MadDuck]

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

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.

[LA]

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.

LA

[mitt]

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

[Speeddog]

Up on hulu? Sweeeet. 

[kopfjäger]

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

 

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

[kopfjäger]

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

This was the only one I could find.

[Autostrada Pilot]

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

Guess I found my Sunday afternoon movie for this week.

[Goat_Herder]

Thats an amazing documentary.

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

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

[ducpainter]

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

The new one or the original?

[orangelion03]

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.

[kopfjäger]

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

[Cloner]

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.

LA

From racing goggles to hip replacements, huh, Larry?  It must suck getting old. 

I guess I'm old enough to critique the thing too.  I was four when it came out.     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.