Topic: High Speed through Paris

[super pasty white guy]

Ok, maybe I'm just about moto-hooliganism, but this was the first time I've ever seen this video. 

Not a bike, but some crazy driving through Paris.

C'était un Rendez-vous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUbe125ege0


From the Wired.com article:
Watch the Film That Inspired It All: C'était un Rendez-vous

See related story:
The Pedal to the Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory
By Charles Graeber  10.16.07 | 12:00 AM
Alex Roy's Cannonball dreams started with a movie, but it didn't star Burt Reynolds. The film was C'était un Rendez-vous. Made in 1976, it's a dashing precursor to every Jackass-inspired digicam stunt ever posted on YouTube — nine heart-pounding minutes choreographed to a screaming drivetrain. Through a bumper-mounted camera, the viewer becomes the car — traveling more than 80 mph as the anonymous driver revs into the enormous traffic circle around Paris' Arc de Triomphe, steers hammer-down from the Champs Élysées to Sacré-Coeur in Montmartre (through 16 red lights, wrong-way one-ways, stunned pedestrians, garbage trucks, and median strips) to meet up with a beautiful blonde waiting patiently in the park at the Montmartre church.

[UnCrash]

   Hey, I read that story today too during my lunch break.

A great read for any speed freaks!

[Einyodeler]

Pretty neat....but hardly any traffic and he`s using 4 wheels.
Any of you that have been to Paris have probably been on the Paris Ring Road that encircles the city, well the thing to do is beat other riders` time to get around it on 2 wheels 

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[andy750]

I rode the Paris Peripherique (ring road) on my CB750F2 at night and it was a lot of fun  . Its like a race track and the exits are sharp and short. You have to be careful as everyone is gunning it. Sort of like riding around the Arc de Triumph but thats on a smaller scale. I also had a sexy French girl waiting for me at the end  ...aah those were the days.

On a bike - Ghostrider did the Peripherique in +9 mins during the night (low traffic) but the un-official record is held by a French guy who did it during daytime in heavy traffic  in +11 mins. very crazy.
 
cheers
Andy

[johnny-from-bel]

Ok, maybe I'm just about moto-hooliganism, but this was the first time I've ever seen this video. 

Not a bike, but some crazy driving through Paris.

C'était un Rendez-vous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUbe125ege0


From the Wired.com article:
Watch the Film That Inspired It All: C'était un Rendez-vous

See related story:
The Pedal to the Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory
By Charles Graeber  10.16.07 | 12:00 AM
Alex Roy's Cannonball dreams started with a movie, but it didn't star Burt Reynolds. The film was C'était un Rendez-vous. Made in 1976, it's a dashing precursor to every Jackass-inspired digicam stunt ever posted on YouTube — nine heart-pounding minutes choreographed to a screaming drivetrain. Through a bumper-mounted camera, the viewer becomes the car — traveling more than 80 mph as the anonymous driver revs into the enormous traffic circle around Paris' Arc de Triomphe, steers hammer-down from the Champs Élysées to Sacré-Coeur in Montmartre (through 16 red lights, wrong-way one-ways, stunned pedestrians, garbage trucks, and median strips) to meet up with a beautiful blonde waiting patiently in the park at the Montmartre church.

You can see that film at Futurocope near Potiers (France). Its an IMAX film. Although it was not tricked it was filmed on closed roads.

By the way, somewhere half the film he takes a left at a café (café at the right hand side). That café stood model for the café in the Joe Bar strip. (I was told)

[toycollector10]

Merde'   He was lucky to make it across town. I would have gone a lot slower just to make sure I got to where I was going so that I could continue to "get my beans".

[ieism]

It sounds almost like a Ferrari, but it didn't seem that fast on the long straights. When he was driving in top gear on the straight before the Arc, the other cars weren't that much slower. A ferrari would be doing well over 160 in top gear, so it should be 3 times as fast as the other cars there.
Are you sure it's not tricked or speeded up?

[johnny-from-bel]

It sounds almost like a Ferrari, but it didn't seem that fast on the long straights. When he was driving in top gear on the straight before the Arc, the other cars weren't that much slower. A ferrari would be doing well over 160 in top gear, so it should be 3 times as fast as the other cars there.
Are you sure it's not tricked or speeded up?

If you see the full film its a Citroen 2CV (thats a 600cc 28HP engine). But of course that is not the car they realy used.

[super pasty white guy]

Here's the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C'était_un_rendez-vous

The car used to film was a 3 speed auto Mercedes with the sound added afterwards.

Also, a better quality version of the film is here:http://stage6.divx.com/user/pepitopepito/video/1271928/c'etait-un-rendez-vous-de-claude-lelouch-1976

Dave