Bike related documentaries.
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Bike related documentaries.
Are there any good bike related documentaries in the states? I have just watched Charley Boormans By Any Means 2 on BBC i player ,watch free link, most enjoyable.
He also done The Long Way Round and The Long Way Down with Ewan McGregor.
He also done The Long Way Round and The Long Way Down with Ewan McGregor.
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Only ones I know of are The Long Way Down/Round series. There was just a really interesting show here on the Science channel or some such thing, all about motorcycle safety technology, both gear related, and bike related. Really interesting. Showed many crashes, how/why they happened from a physics perspective, how new bike tech is helping to avoid them, and how gear helped save the rider. Good stuff.
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That was Motorcycle Crash Tech on National Geographic. It's on my DVR; haven't gotten to it yet!
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"On Any Sunday"
Great old school moto documentary.
Watch it free online:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/79438/on-any-sunday
Great old school moto documentary.
Watch it free online:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/79438/on-any-sunday
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Can't stream outside the U.S., oh well.
Leeroy Jenkins wrote:"On Any Sunday"
Great old school moto documentary.
Watch it free online:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/79438/on-any-sunday
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Try to get this movie; it's one of the best moto-documentaries ever made.Irishrover wrote:Can't stream outside the U.S., oh well.
Leeroy Jenkins wrote:"On Any Sunday"
Great old school moto documentary.
Watch it free online:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/79438/on-any-sunday
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It's the dramatization of a memoir rather than a documentary, but The Motorcycle Diaries - about the pan-latin-american road trip that transformed med student Ernesto Guevara into Marxist revolutionary Che - is quite good.
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Watching Motorcycle Crash Tech right now. It's very racing-focused but interesting. They show how a leather racing suit is assembled. I particularly liked the segment on how Nolan helmets are built and tested.
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Managed to download it from should I say a torrent site.
siobhan wrote:Try to get this movie; it's one of the best moto-documentaries ever made.Irishrover wrote:Can't stream outside the U.S., oh well.
Leeroy Jenkins wrote:"On Any Sunday"
Great old school moto documentary.
Watch it free online:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/79438/on-any-sunday
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"Britten: Backyard Visionary"
Whole documentary film is available in a few bite size pieces commercial free on the interwebs.
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/britten-backyard-v isionary-1993
"During the late 1980s, Kiwi inventor John Britten developed and built a revolutionary racing motorcycle. He pursued his dream all the way to Daytona International Speedway, where, in 1992, as an unlikely underdog, he proceeded to beat the biggest and richest manufacturers in the world. Britten: Backyard Visionary documents the maverick motorcycle designer that Guggenheim curator Ultan Guilfoyle described as "the New Zealander who stood the world of racing-motorcycle design on its head."
Whole documentary film is available in a few bite size pieces commercial free on the interwebs.
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/britten-backyard-v isionary-1993
"During the late 1980s, Kiwi inventor John Britten developed and built a revolutionary racing motorcycle. He pursued his dream all the way to Daytona International Speedway, where, in 1992, as an unlikely underdog, he proceeded to beat the biggest and richest manufacturers in the world. Britten: Backyard Visionary documents the maverick motorcycle designer that Guggenheim curator Ultan Guilfoyle described as "the New Zealander who stood the world of racing-motorcycle design on its head."
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Watched that some time ago.
TVB wrote:A similar story is that of Graeme Obree, the racing bicyclist who built his own bike to use more aerodynamic riding positions (tucked arms and Superman style, both of which were banned from competition), as dramatized in The Flying Scotsman.Leeroy Jenkins wrote:"Britten: Backyard Visionary"...
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I must admit I didn't realise they were built in the U.S.
Have seen a few in my travels and like the naked lightning which reminds me of my MK1 Honda Hornet.
Have seen a few in my travels and like the naked lightning which reminds me of my MK1 Honda Hornet.
Leeroy Jenkins wrote:A little history from one of my favorite brands:
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