Slightly O/T...On Any Sunday...the movie...

[BARNETT]

So 2 weeks ago, I'm watching "The Endless Summer", the surf documentary by Bruce Brown...have you seen it? Man...if you haven't...GO GET IT! Anyways...last week I got to check out "On Any Sunday", the motorcycle documentary by Bruce Brown with special guest Steve MacQueen...unbelievable!!! If you can't get stoked by either of these flicks...your dead! Besides the bike skills these guys have, you can't help but be seriously blown away by their lust for what they do!! If everybody did SOMETHING with HALF the level of commitment that these guys rode (or surfed) with...this would be a far better planet! I need to go back and get the rider's name, but he was quoted as saying..."You never know how fast you can go until you fall down." http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif He rode dirt tracks and was one of the top 5 riders in the country! You watch these guys LIVE to do what they do...and loving it the whole time. Too much. Rent it, buy it...just GO GET IT!

O.k....back to your regularly scheduled programming.

This reminds me...Evel Rules! I got the DVD faster than I expected...gotta go get a DVD player tomorrow so I can watch all of this high energy stuff I've been seeing pieces of!! Thanks, man!

[Jeem]

You know what struck me about both these movies was the overwhelming feeling that these guys were not about image. It was all about the fun and living life to the fullest. No attitudes. Some of the baddest ass guys in both films were downright goofballs, who cares? Simpler times to be sure. Not a surfer or a biker but you feel like you are right there with 'em. Great, great movies. Plus, no quick cutaway MTV bullshit.

Barnett, you got good taste man.

[slammed]

Yes, couple time's a year.Timless and Pure. Would'nt it be killer to see them both at a real big screen, like a movie theater? Like it was meant to be seen......HAMB mid-night movie? Dig it, I knew that you could.

[BARNETT]

Thanks. Yeah, the same things struck me! I'm not a biker or a surfer either ( I was a skater in the late 70's and early 80's, though!)...but these flicks go WAY beyond the sports they document. It's hard to describe...you just haveta watch the flicks and the feeling will eat you alive! Maybe I shouldn't watch these flicks affter a few iced teas or iced coffees. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Bruce Brown did a great job of capturing the action and the vibe.

Slammed...that would be great to see them on the big screen!

[Skate Fink]

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Yes, couple time's a year.Timless and Pure. Would'nt it be killer to see them both at a real big screen, like a movie theater? Like it was meant to be seen.....

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.......that's where I first saw the "Endless Summer!" If you like that, check out Bruces' son's movie on DVD, "Step Into Liquid." Quality surf stories that focus more in the personalities of the surf "culture." COWABUNGA!!!

[Jeem]

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( I was a skater in the late 70's and early 80's, though!)

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Me too, same time. My knees scream at me all the time now. Riding long old fart boards now.

[The Harpoon]

Just for you Barnett, Brown did a skateboard documentary on the hobie skate team in the 64-66 period, I may have it on tape somewhere. My favs are the aussie surf scene with the 40 coupe, the bike drags, hill climbs, and the "on any sunday I can fly" trio sequence.

[BARNETT]

Jeem...I'm still not very bright...been carving and doin laybacks at a couple of local ditches, lately, after about 15 years of NOT skating at all! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif yeah...it's not pretty, but it sure feels good.

Harpoon, I'd love to see that Hobie flick...I'll have to strat checking online for it! I think my favorite action shots are the dirt track guys sliding sideways around the turns at 80mph+! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[rev616]

the last day of my theory class (@motorcycle mechanics institute) our teacher had us watch any given sunday.i didnt watch most of it,i just stood outside and smoked.our teacher was an old racer guy.he was deep into the brits back in the 60's.he showed us a magazine cover of a norton he put i think it was a porsche turbo on.it was bad ass.he was an awesome teacher.i almost wish i could go back through his class,i learned so much shit.but then again im in screamin eagle right now and my teacher is the harley equivelant of him

[The Harpoon]

like this

[The Harpoon]

or this guy laying down the KRTT

[The Harpoon]

how bout the whole pack

[The Harpoon]

It's a very poetic film

[48_HEMI]

Hey, I was in that movie! do you have any still shots of me?
the Barstow to Vegas race I was 923 bikes from the left side. Whitey Martino passed my 380 greeves on his Husky going up the hill to the smoke bomb I was fourth or fifth place when we hit the trail http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[48_HEMI]

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how bout the whole pack

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Thats Sonny Burris No 69 a Portland local on his Triumph leading those Harleys
Ray I know you're reading this post you were probably cutting hair when this was taken haha
who were the rest of the pack?

[Jimv]

They also made a On any sunday 2 & endless summer 2, both are also very good, worth checking out.
If you want to see a pretty entertianing show what "Dogtown & he Z-boys" its about early skaterboarders who started skating pools & shit, also very good & whats good about it is they interview all the people in it!! there all still around, pretty cool!!
JimV

[old beet]

Jim, we use to drag race with Sonny at T-4 and Van-Port........OLDBEET

[autocol]

malcolm was way cool...

[racer5c]

malcolm was way cool...

no where near as cool as my boyhood idol who won the 1970 AMA National Flat Track Championship in that movie Gene "Burrito" Romero I was lucky enough to go to some races with him when I was 11-14 yrs old I have one of his pair of leathers from the 1970 season and a number plate from when he rode for Yamaha as a team mate to Kenny Roberts

[48_HEMI]

malcom had talent but I think he marched to a different drummer, he always seemed to be out there.
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In the early 70's Larry Brooks was the wildest thing on wheels. first 125 cc bike to ever win 1st over all in a district 37 race. every one said it was because it was such a tight course that the big bikes didn't have a chance to open up, till he won a half dozen more. "he had a 28 inch waist and wore a size 42 jock strap" is what I used to say. Larry Rosseler(sp) was another. when he was riding a 100 cc team Harley Baha. out in Lucerne Valley he past me on a down hill run to the finish line and I didn't have enough gear to catch him. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif I'm not bragging but I didn't get passed very often in those days My 380 QUB Greeves was running a leading link and over 46 HP had a top end over 90 mph http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Skate Fink]

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.........Riding long old fart boards now.

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http://www.weirdtrip.com/Skate/lb1.JPG

[scooter]

I must be old , i remember standing in line to be one of the first people to see "ON ANY SUNDAY " on the big screen as a kid .Around the time that came out i was like those kids on the mini bikes and xr75's .After that movie was watched several times by me and all the kids , i was able to talk dad into gettin me my first bultaco .One of my FAV's of all time .And part 2 is great too .Mcqueen bank rolled that whole movie . The dvd momentary awesome !

[The Blownranger]

Been tryng to buy a copy of On Any Sunday for a long time,
Does anyone know where I can order it on line?
Blockbusters don`t have it.
Thanks...JR

[modernbeat]

If you like Bruce's movies, check out his kid's stuff - Dana Brown.

Dana helped out on Endless Summer II, but his last movie "Step Into Liquid" was very good and his upcoming Baja 1000 documentary "Dust To Glory" looks like it will be a huge hit.

Blownranger, try Amazon, Blockbuster Online, Ebay, or any of the 10,000 online retailers that sell DVDs and VHS tapes.

[luketrash]

I've got the DVD box set, and every time I watch it, I think about how these hill climbers and 'dirt bikes' are basically my street bike with knobby tires and scrambler pipes thrown on http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Then I think about the Travis Pastranas of the world and wonder what they could do back then.. The suspensions were not there, and the bikes weighed at least twice as much.

Also, your crotchrocket showoff bikers that you see those dipshit videos at Best Buy like the Star Boyz (or whatever they are called)...

I'm curious if they'd have stood out back then with their skills.. I always wonder how much the machine at hand is responsible for the capabilities these riders exhibit.

I usually throw on any sunday in during the winter, when I'm jonsing to ride my own bike, and there's a foot of snow on the ground.

[oldchevyseller]

there is also a movie and book about the 6 day trials that mcqueen was in and i think was the only american team to win

[41ChevyTrucker]

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So 2 weeks ago, I'm watching "The Endless Summer", the surf documentary by Bruce Brown...have you seen it? Man...if you haven't...GO GET IT! Anyways...last week I got to check out "On Any Sunday", the motorcycle documentary by Bruce Brown with special guest Steve MacQueen...unbelievable!!! If you can't get stoked by either of these flicks...your dead! Besides the bike skills these guys have, you can't help but be seriously blown away by their lust for what they do!! If everybody did SOMETHING with HALF the level of commitment that these guys rode (or surfed) with...this would be a far better planet! I need to go back and get the rider's name, but he was quoted as saying..."You never know how fast you can go until you fall down." http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif He rode dirt tracks and was one of the top 5 riders in the country! You watch these guys LIVE to do what they do...and loving it the whole time. Too much. Rent it, buy it...just GO GET IT!

O.k....back to your regularly scheduled programming.

This reminds me...Evel Rules! I got the DVD faster than I expected...gotta go get a DVD player tomorrow so I can watch all of this high energy stuff I've been seeing pieces of!! Thanks, man!

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I AGREE! both movies kick ass. I grew up watching them both. I remember seeing On Any Sunday II in the theater. I also watched Mad Fab again this morning. haha

Another movie I really liked that had a lasting impression was a movie called "10" or something like that. No not Bo Derek but a short flick by the Eames brothers? about 10x magnification inward and outward. Hard to explain and I could have the numbers wrong but its a dope little flick tying the human body with the universe. Trippy sounding but really slick. I only saw it once and I wish I could find it on DVD or tape. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

_Eric

[scooter]

Speaking of bikes, check out the NYC bike jump ,TONIGHT on TNT ,robbie is gunna jump the old uss intrepid .good luck to him !

[oldchevyseller]

http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/programs_robbie_knieval.html
Saturday, July 31 @ 8pm ET
Robbie Knievel to jump the USS Intrepid LIVE from New York. Jump to be followed by an encore of the TNT Original EVEL KNIEVEL at 9pm ET.

[Deuce Rails]

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You know what struck me about both these movies was the overwhelming feeling that these guys were not about image. It was all about the fun and living life to the fullest. No attitudes. Some of the baddest ass guys in both films were downright goofballs, who cares? Simpler times to be sure. Not a surfer or a biker but you feel like you are right there with 'em. Great, great movies. Plus, no quick cutaway MTV bullshit.

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Well put, Jeem, and a good observation.

--Matt

[BARNETT]

So...on a similar note...If anyone in HAMBland hasn't ordered one of the Mad Fab. Society videos yet...WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! I got mine yesterday, before I managed to get around to getting a dvd player...today I bought the dvd player! Man, you wanna talk about "bang for your buck"! It's CRAZY! There's enough there for 2 or 3 volumes at that price!! One of the coolest ideas I've seen in a long time. So first I'm all amped about "The Endless Summer", then "On Any Sunday" and now I have "MFS"...been a big couple of weeks for me and videos...which doesn't usually happen. I'm checking out "Step Into Liquid" next weekend... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Whole Lotta Cool (http://www.madfabricators.com/)

[67Imp.Wagon]

Saw On Any Sunday at the theater as a kid and they played Endless Summer as a 2nd feature. Talk about overload on a young brain. Bruce Brown was now in my vocabulary. I stayed to watch On Any Sunday a 2nd time that day.(You could do that back then,they did'nt kick you out)

Later as a teen I found a slightly water damaged Endless Summer Album at a thrift store. Still own it today and play it often.

On Any Sunday II is good but IMO does'nt compare to the first one. Still worth seeing.

Malcolm Smith just did it all.Thats what made him great. I loved the part where he heads up Widowmaker and did damn near as good as anyone there on their hill climb bikes.


Its hard to say how well these new young riders would have did back in the day. Bikes have definately came along way and the suspesions are amazing these days and very forgiving on the big bumps and rough tracks.

[Stevie G]

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Yes, couple time's a year.Timless and Pure. Would'nt it be killer to see them both at a real big screen, like a movie theater? Like it was meant to be seen......HAMB mid-night movie? Dig it, I knew that you could.

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What Movies are playing in ATL for the Drive-in meet?

[Evel]

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So...on a similar note...If anyone in HAMBland hasn't ordered one of the Mad Fab. Society videos yet...WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! I got mine yesterday, before I managed to get around to getting a dvd player...today I bought the dvd player! Man, you wanna talk about "bang for your buck"! It's CRAZY! There's enough there for 2 or 3 volumes at that price!! One of the coolest ideas I've seen in a long time. So first I'm all amped about "The Endless Summer", then "On Any Sunday" and now I have "MFS"...been a big couple of weeks for me and videos...which doesn't usually happen. I'm checking out "Step Into Liquid" next weekend... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Whole Lotta Cool (http://www.madfabricators.com/)

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Bruce Brown Is my Hero!!!

When I cut the DVD All I could think of was I want it like Endless summer, On Any Sunday..And DOg town Z boys..Those movies had a Big Influence on how I got "My Style"...I was 10 the first time I saw On any sunday and was hooked since!!!

Bruce Brown and Stacy Paralta are Rulers in my world!!!

Thanks for the good words!!!
I'm glad you Liked it!!

Evel

[BARNETT]

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Malcolm Smith just did it all.Thats what made him great. I loved the part where he heads up Widowmaker and did damn near as good as anyone there on their hill climb bikes.


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Yeah...that part was pretty cool. I liked it when everyone was struggeling to walk their bikes back down the hill and Malcom hops on his and RIDES it down! Everyone is just freakin out...good action!

[haring]

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Another movie I really liked that had a lasting impression was a movie called "10" or something like that. No not Bo Derek but a short flick by the Eames brothers?

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Haha -- "Eames brothers" -- that made me chuckle. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Hate to squash your notions of who the Eames were, but Charles and Ray Eames were HUSBAND and WIFE. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9905/images/e-cyclecov.jpg


The film to which you're referring was called "Powers of Ten (http://www.powersof10.com/)" (1977).

[NoSurf]

I had Robert August sign my longboard and I resined over it. He is such a wicked nice guy, and so appreciative of the opportunity to go on the "Endless Summer". I met Wingnut from ES2 as well, very fitting name.

[Rix2Six]

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Been tryng to buy a copy of On Any Sunday for a long time,
Does anyone know where I can order it on line?
Blockbusters don`t have it.
Thanks...JR

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Amazon has it... or had it when I ordered it some time back.

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

3 words... MERT FUCKING LAWILL!

I got to hang out with him a few summers back on the road when he was designing downhill bikes for schwinn... he's a great guy.

['Flyin' Dutchman']

The Bruce Brown movies are killer!!!

BTW... I rode downhill/dual slalom at the '93 Mountainbike World Championships in France with Mert Lawill's son, Joe Lawill. That was pretty bitchin'!!

['Flyin' Dutchman']

Check the "On any Sunday" box set here...

http://www.4130.com/boxoffice/index.html

[Smokin Joe]

Remember when the best dirt bikes were Greeves, Bultaco and CZ? Every place that you could hillclimb had a "Greeves Hill". That was always the toughest climb.
Hondas were just something I blew by on my Combat Wombat! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
When I got a Greeves, I thought that was the ultimate rip snorting mountain tameing dirt bike ever... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I think my 83 650 Honda street bike has as much suspension travel as that old Greeves, and probably doesn't weigh much more... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[55olds88]

Both cool movies, watched On any Sunday back in I guess the 80's with my bro, Step into Liquid is well recomended too.
That first still of the speedway bike looks to be Kiwi legend Ivan Mauger I think he is like 6 times world champ, still riding and promoting long track racing today.

[Lowlife]

"Step Into Liquid" is on Showtime tonight at 8pm Central.

[41ChevyTrucker]

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Another movie I really liked that had a lasting impression was a movie called "10" or something like that. No not Bo Derek but a short flick by the Eames brothers?

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Haha -- "Eames brothers" -- that made me chuckle. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Hate to squash your notions of who the Eames were, but Charles and Ray Eames were HUSBAND and WIFE. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9905/images/e-cyclecov.jpg


The film to which you're referring was called "Powers of Ten (http://www.powersof10.com/)" (1977).

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HAHAHAHAHA Ray is a man! That's the movie though! phew I'm glad I am not the only one who knew what I was talking, about I thought maybe it was all just a flashback. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

sorry for the ot ot hijack Barnett! I did have a couple Husqvarna bikes that were about the same vintage as the bikes in the On Any Sunday flick. My friends grandpa gave them to us to fix. Those things were heavy and unruly as hell but they hauled ass! nothing like the flickable dirtbikes today.

[Church]

I think there is also an "On Any Sunday Revisited". It could be the sequel you are talking about, but I don't think it is. It has much more current interviews with all the riders (who are still around). Pretty cool watching them talk about their glory days.

[cleatus]

That film changed my life. Started racing moto in the mid 70s. I am 44 now and still racing motocross and X/C

[JohnnyB327]

hey i saw that movie whan i was like 10 or so on the old speed vision saturday night movie special and damn i got pretty hooked on motorcycles for a while http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[Hot Rod Ron]

In the early 1970's I was growing up in Boca Raton and my dad was racing enduro's and rode a Penton, or a Rokan. He was 4th in the state for 1974 and I can remember how those guys raced. Back then it took a real man to ride a bike with 4 to 6 inches of travel. My pops still rides and now its a 1978 250 husky, 1979 250 husky, or for fooling around a 1976 125 husky. My favorite part of the movie is two. One when the trials rider goes by the little kid doin a wheelle that kills me the second is seeing Malcom smith cutting the barbed wire fence and passing all those riders and cutting back in with out missing a beat. Malcom is a god on a motorcycle as far as I am concerned.

[smalltownspeed]

Man.. Your right... I raced for a few years, and starting when I was 15 I was on my own going to tracks, and paying for it... That made me realize how much I LOVED it. For me a good day at the track was better than any sex I had ever had(and that still holds true)... It didnt matter if I won or lost, and long as I rode on the edge, didnt leave with the paramedics, and was with some good freinds... I worked a job, in a camera shop, for a koreian guy who barley spoke english, making less then min. wage, working more than legal hours for my age, just so I can get on the track... When I was getting out of racing(last year), it was in its transation to being mainstreem... And I think that took some of the fun away from it... Too much preasure from sponsors, too much drive to win, and too may injuries(4 freinds got carflighted my last year racing) due to thoes things... And it all got to expensive cause I was pushing to go pro. Anyways, Ill definatley, get back into it, but it will probably be at the little tracks, with little turnouts, with good freinds, cause even though being at a race with 90 other riders in your class is an experince, it was the days with 5, 10 or 20, that made me love the sport... And reguarding "not knowing how fast you can go till you fall down", Ive got a screw in my feamur, a spinal cord injury, and few concussions under my belt, and that never scared me away.. Anyways, im probably rambling... But taliking about it reminds me of the passion I have for it... Ill check out that surfiing move too... If any of you DFW area hambers wanna check out some racing, let me know, and Ill tell you about a couple of the smaller tracks where you can see racing at its purest. I think Im gonna sit down and watch my copy of "On Any Sunday"...


Thanks, Cory

[smalltownspeed]

Its bad ass that hes doing MTB stuff now... I freeride now to help fill the void left my motocross, and a few freinds have been tryin to get me to hit the ARK D/H series... Any of you HAMBers ride? Any of yall ride back in the day? I would love to see some old pics of yall surfing, skatin, or on a bmx bike back in the day, cause im not old enough to have been there "back in the day"....

[truth]

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that flick is so badass!

[Rix2Six]

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I think there is also an "On Any Sunday Revisited". It could be the sequel you are talking about, but I don't think it is. It has much more current interviews with all the riders (who are still around). Pretty cool watching them talk about their glory days.

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"On Any Sunday Revisited" is a different movie. It's a retrospective documentary on the making and impact of the original "On Any Sunday."

[smalltownspeed]

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I've got the DVD box set, and every time I watch it, I think about how these hill climbers and 'dirt bikes' are basically my street bike with knobby tires and scrambler pipes thrown on http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Then I think about the Travis Pastranas of the world and wonder what they could do back then.. The suspensions were not there, and the bikes weighed at least twice as much.

Also, your crotchrocket showoff bikers that you see those dipshit videos at Best Buy like the Star Boyz (or whatever they are called)...

I'm curious if they'd have stood out back then with their skills.. I always wonder how much the machine at hand is responsible for the capabilities these riders exhibit.

I usually throw on any sunday in during the winter, when I'm jonsing to ride my own bike, and there's a foot of snow on the ground.



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Come on now man... Its all about the love riding. You cant say that technology has shit to do with whats going down today on 2 wheel... Its all about progression... If I could go back in time I could hang with those guys and maybe beet them. But I wouldent stand a chance at making a pro main at any out door national... Shit, Id probably even get my ass handed to me in the Intermediate class now at a lot of bigger events... And the starboyz... With all that stuntin shit, now guys are pullin up stoppies and 150+mph and I think the record is a little over 900ft... Thats skill. And balls. But anyways. Riding is all about fun. Its a passon that gets burned into you. After reading this post, Im seirously considering buying my freinds CR450F and gettin vack into it... The riding in On Any Sunday was amazing for the time. But what makes it so great is the passon, dedication and all thoes things.... Anybody disagree?


Jumping back to the top, any of yall rember when Carey Heart first pulled the back flip? Watch the next X-games. I cant straight up say it, but Pastrana has something that no one else does. Ill give you a hint... Hes doin two of em... Fuckin crazy...

[CRAP]

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Jumping back to the top, any of yall rember when Carey Heart first pulled the back flip? Watch the next X-games. I cant straight up say it, but Pastrana has something that no one else does. Ill give you a hint... Hes doin two of em... Fuckin crazy...

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I saw that and almost shit myself. My stomach just dropped.
If Pastrana pulls off 2 of em I might as well watch it on the toilet.