What we need is good biker movie!

Big Fust and little Hosy is Robery Redford's most personaly ldisliked film.It hasn't been seen on TV in decades.Its available on Utube for a few dollars.Robert isn't very nice in that film, playing a complete dickhead i guess it was ageist his typical hero image. I liked the film with Micheal J Polard overcoming his dwebe. image and winning in the end. It has some great dirt and road racing footage and that model with the gap in her front teeth looks great as well.
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There are several ‘movies’ that are about motorcycle road racing, e.g. ‘Road’ which is about the Dunlops, and ‘Closer to the Edge’ about the 2010 TT and the ‘wanker’ Guy Martin. And as already pointed out there is another TT film in the making. However, these type of productions may promote and increase the interest in attending the TT to watch the ‘spectacle’ they don’t particularly do anything for motorcycling in general.
Some of us in the ‘UK’ might be old enough to remember the TV series ‘Boon’ in which the main character rode a motorcycle. I suggest a TV series in which the main characters all ride motorbikes (not just for criminal purposes) and demonstrates all the positive sides of motorcycle ownership would do more to promote bike sales than a one off movie.
However, I’m not opposed to the idea of a motorcycling action movie in which the good guys ride bikes.
 
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Robert Redford tried very hard to buy the movie rights to 'Zen and the Art...' but Pirsig refused to sell them.
I treasure my hardback copy and have read it many times.

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Same here. Read three times - a very important book in my youthful formative years. Struggling to remember my youth but I'll never forget the book. Interesting diverging views expressed here but that's OK, we're all different and drawn to different qualities of this amazing world.
 
I am with Cam and PF 1 regarding this „Zen thing“, i closed it after about 20 pages and never opened it again.
Sure „ World fastest Indian“ is outstanding, but what about Rocky Horror and Meat Loaf „Hot Patootie … „ 🫣
 
The Sock said:
Robert Redford tried very hard to buy the movie rights to 'Zen and the Art...' but Pirsig refused to sell them.
I treasure my hardback copy and have read it many times.

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If we are talking bike books then Jupiters travels has to be the one, a truly great motorcycle book. A million miles ago is another great book by Neale Shelton who was the travelling Triumph sales rep who went on to build the Norton Interpol Police bikes-
 
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I read Jupiters Travels back in the day.
I also read a book about someone cycling around the world. Someone nicked the blokes bike in Columbia which came as a great relief to me. I'm sure Monty Pythons Mr Pither was based on that bloody book.
The last motorcycling travel book I read was something I bought from the author at an autojumble, it was his tour guide to hidden Spain and was very observant. He did all the drawings too. I liked his description of the dogs roaming loose in the villages looking like they all had the wrong size legs, tails and head fitted. They do actually look like they are built from random leftovers ha ha!
 
Nick Sanders was a strange bloke,he used to do book signings & talks at our shop. He turned up once at about 10 am on a Saturday morning, unannounced & expected a service there and then? He then got shitty and told me he was leaving the next day, couldn’t wait, bunch of wa… etc. I remember the bike having a shagged chain, bent handlebar and a broken speedo cable and generally being a bit of a shit box.
Don’t know what to make of him, some bits in his book about mpg on big Triumph in Australia didn’t tally, but hey- ho.
We sold Ted Simons Hinckley Thunderbird’s that I think he used for another book. Investment biker is a book worth avoiding, came across as a right tool!
 
Exmoor beast said:
If we are talking bike books then Jupiters travels has to be the one, a truly great motorcycle book. A million miles ago is another great book by Neale Shelton who was the travelling Triumph sales rep who went on to build the Norton Interpol Police bikes-
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I absolutely loved Jupiters Travels. One thing that has always stuck with me was that Ted Simon stuffed a white linen suit inside his panniers in case he got invited to consular cocktail parties along the way 😂
 
I don`t think anyone has mentioned Electra Glide In Blue yet ......... I don`t like sad endings though ......... and the motorcycle cop played by Robert Blake gets blown away at the end whilst trying to perform a good deed .........

Chicago provide the soundtrack and appear in bit parts ...... the film was produced and directed by their record producer .......

BTW .... Blake was a former child actor who turns up as the mystery man in David Lynch`s " Lost Highway " ........ Someone said they bumped into Blake and congratulated him on his part in Lost Highway ....... Blake replied " Thanks ...... but tell me , what was it all supposed to be about ? " ........ :) ........

Blake was accused of murdering his wife in 2001 but got away with it ...........


Straying onto four wheels for a moment , Two Lane Blacktop was a good film ......

Warren Oates , James Taylor ( who utters about three words throughout the whole film ) , Dennis Wilson and Art Garfunkel`s girlfriend Laurie Bird .......... Bird goes off with a Harley Davidson rider halfway through the film , so there is that ............

Bird appeared soon after in a film called " Cockfighter " ........ No, it`s not what you might be thinking ........ not that at all .................


Someone on here ( sorry , can`t remember who ) , put up that short film with Eddie Tudor riding his Norton ( Triton ? ) through London ....... I can imagine that appealing to some kids today , in a quirky kind of way ..........

The thing is ..... Films like Quadrophenia and The Leather Boys reflected youth movements that already existed at the time ........ Seeing most kids nowadays are as boring as their parents , there`s nothing to film ..............
 
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I seem to remember a flick with a leather-clad B-B on a Kawasaki triple?

Two Lane Blacktop is one of my favourites. Memories of Electra Glide in Blue have faded...

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