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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #125 on: July 18, 2014, 05:13:19 pm »
"The Fastest Indian" with Anthony Hopkins.

Based on a true story about a guy that sets speed records on the salt at Bonneville.
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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #126 on: July 20, 2014, 02:59:00 pm »
"The Fastest Indian" with Anthony Hopkins.

Based on a true story about a guy that sets speed records on the salt at Bonneville.

+1, that was a fun movie. I loved watching him cast pistons using drain pipes or some such as raw material.

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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #127 on: July 20, 2014, 05:01:33 pm »
"The Fastest Indian" with Anthony Hopkins.

Based on a true story about a guy that sets speed records on the salt at Bonneville.

+1, that was a fun movie. I loved watching him cast pistons using drain pipes or some such as raw material.


And he used lead from old batteries to make ballast weights.  Guy was unbelievable. 
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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #128 on: September 23, 2014, 10:24:46 pm »
Brittown not an old movie but its a good view, also there is another one that these guys did which was called Europe One World Tour.
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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #129 on: June 19, 2016, 06:32:01 am »
I just watched the documentary about Joey Dunlop and his family called ROAD.  It's at the top of my list along with Freddie Spencer Explains Road Racing
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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #130 on: August 09, 2016, 09:29:31 am »
Really enjoyed the film 21 Days Under the Sky. Great cinematography, neat choppers. I would recommend it

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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #131 on: August 09, 2016, 02:26:15 pm »
Really enjoyed the film 21 Days Under the Sky. Great cinematography, neat choppers. I would recommend it

Not exactly a movie, but I just saw an episode of Law and Order, where the victim (one always dies to start the episode off) crashed his motorcycle and was pitched off onto a metal picket fence. The female detective, the redhead with the freckles, said," Hmm, a 1970 Honda CB750, restored and in great shape. Owner must have been an enthusiast, mechanic, or a rich collector."

Turns out the bad guy had used an eye dropper to suck out most of the battery acid (leaving enough to let it start)  and squirt it into the oil tank, causing the engine to seize after running a bit down the road, and pitch him off.
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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #133 on: October 10, 2016, 08:05:41 pm »
The 2 Ghost Riders, with Nicholas Cage?

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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #134 on: January 21, 2017, 05:09:31 pm »
"DUST TO GLORY" by Dana Brown, a documentary on the Baja 1000,if you have never seen this,you want to do so ASAP!!!!

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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #135 on: February 08, 2019, 07:57:14 am »
+1 for The Wild One

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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #136 on: February 12, 2019, 06:16:40 am »
"Wild Hogs" 

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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #137 on: February 12, 2019, 10:21:30 am »
Beginning and end of Lawrence of Arabia? Not a bad way to make your exit, for some of us.


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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #138 on: May 09, 2019, 12:13:07 pm »
Satan’s Sadists was a pretty alright 70’s biker flick. It was definitely a B-movie! Released by Troma. Or some of those movies that is worth it because of the good one liners here and there. It’s actually got Russ Tamblyn who later played Dr. Jacoby in Twin Peaks.
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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #139 on: October 08, 2022, 09:16:07 am »
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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #140 on: February 02, 2023, 03:53:49 pm »
I don’t think I saw it mentioned so far but I will submit a movie called ‘The Italian Machine’ from 1976 directed by David Cronenberg. It’s a short about a Ducati 900ss. There are some great long shots of a motorcycle dealership in Toronto called Cycleworld. The showroom is full of Honda’s from 75. Definitely worth the time to watch. You might have to look for it though, I see it listed on some sites, some dubbed.

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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #141 on: February 09, 2023, 11:20:26 am »
I don’t think I saw it mentioned so far but I will submit a movie called ‘The Italian Machine’ from 1976 directed by David Cronenberg.

This it?

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Re: Favorite motorcycle movies
« Reply #142 on: February 11, 2023, 03:31:12 pm »
That’s it. I love the line “ how can he look at it and not want to make it go”