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Re: Great motorcycle movies/videos
« Reply #15 on: December 04, 2008, 01:00:26 PM »

Not a movie, but TV show, Then Came Bronson!

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« Reply #16 on: December 04, 2008, 01:41:02 PM »

Not a movie, but TV show, Then Came Bronson!



Was that a Sportster that he rode?
























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Re: Great motorcycle movies/videos
« Reply #17 on: December 04, 2008, 01:46:12 PM »

Not a movie, but TV show, Then Came Bronson!



It was both.  Movie first.  If remember correctly was supposed to be a theatrical release that got cut down by MGM to a TV movie of the week.
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Re: Great motorcycle movies/videos
« Reply #18 on: December 04, 2008, 01:48:20 PM »


Was that a Sportster that he rode?



Sure was.  At least one of the bikes from the production is in a bike museum somewhere.  Remember seeing it.  Just don't remember where right now :nixweiss: ?
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Re: Great motorcycle movies/videos
« Reply #19 on: December 04, 2008, 01:48:53 PM »

Was that a Sportster that he rode?


You asked ::)

The motorcycles used in the series were supplied by Harley-Davidson (according to the closing credits of the episodes); Sportsters (883cc) were used for the road shots and close-ups, with a Harley-Davidson Sprint SS350 and a Czechoslovakian CZ, and possibly a Harley Rapido 125, used occasionally for hillclimbs, beach scenes and other rough-terrain riding.
According to Bud Ekins, the stunt coordinator for the movie and the series, MGM bought two or three Sportsters for the pilot movie (which was filmed in the fall of 1968; the bikes were probably the 1969 model XLH). The bike used in the hill climb and beach scenes was a CZ, provided by Bud, who was a CZ dealer at the time. The bikes were sold after the movie was completed.
After the movie proved popular, and the series was scheduled, Harley-Davidson provided three Sportsters, one of which was customized with a side-car for close-up shots. H-D also provided a Sprint 350 and later a Rapido 125 (used in the moto-cross in the episode entitled Mating Dance For Tender Grass). The Rapido crashed before the shooting of the episode was finished, putting the stunt rider into the hospital. In that episode, the race's first prize was a green 1970 H-D Sportster, with the new "boat tail" seat/fender assembly. (It was first prize for a real race that was actually held for the episode, and was donated by Harley - even though it had been previously promised to another, paying customer of H-D! The customer did get his bike a week or so later.) In the episode entitled The Great Motorcycle Fiasco, the motorcycle, a "1937 Rudge Ulster with a bronze head," used by actor Keenan Wynn, was owned by either Keenan or Bud Ekins, who recommended Keenan for the part.
Bud said he was the one who customized the Sportsters and other cycles, and said the sissy bar came off of a Schwinn bicycle. He also said that no Triumphs, Yamahas or other cycles were used in the movie or episodes in place of the "Bronson" Sportsters, except the CZ (in the pilot movie) and the H-D Sprint and Rapido (in the episodes).
Bud said he trained Kurt Russell, who appeared on one TCB episode, to ride a cycle with a sidecar for the movie Swing Shift, which also starred Goldie Hawn.






















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« Reply #20 on: December 04, 2008, 01:58:02 PM »

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Re: Great motorcycle movies/videos
« Reply #21 on: December 04, 2008, 03:16:23 PM »

You asked ::)

The motorcycles used in the series were supplied by Harley-Davidson (according to the closing credits of the episodes); Sportsters (883cc) were used for the road shots and close-ups, with a Harley-Davidson Sprint SS350 and a Czechoslovakian CZ, and possibly a Harley Rapido 125, used occasionally for hillclimbs, beach scenes and other rough-terrain riding.



The Sportsters were 900's,   the 883 didn't come out till years later.





















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Re: Great motorcycle movies/videos
« Reply #22 on: December 04, 2008, 03:23:59 PM »

On Any Sunday

A great piece of work - was it really a movie though ? More of a factual dialogue.

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« Reply #23 on: December 04, 2008, 03:32:27 PM »



Yea, that's what I thought, 883's were in the 80's. This was off of a site on the show.
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« Reply #24 on: December 04, 2008, 08:33:13 PM »

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Re: Great motorcycle movies/videos
« Reply #25 on: December 04, 2008, 09:25:11 PM »

Bought On Any Sunday on Ebay a while back... used to watch it all the time as a kid...

Also picked up Easy Rider, another classic.
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Re: Great motorcycle movies/videos
« Reply #26 on: December 04, 2008, 09:34:31 PM »

The Motorcycle Diaries, starring an old 1939 500 Norton, Ernesto (Che) Guevara and lots of  scenery from Buenos Aires to Venezuela.
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Re: Great motorcycle movies/videos
« Reply #27 on: December 05, 2008, 05:02:29 AM »

"Hell's Angels 69" with Sonny Barger. Ahem.
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Re: Great motorcycle movies/videos
« Reply #28 on: December 05, 2008, 07:53:18 AM »

while looking for a robert redford move Little Faus & Big Halsey found this
http://www.hondahog.com/bikerposters.htm

Great find, that's interesting.  I think a couple of those will make it on my Netflix list.
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Re: Great motorcycle movies/videos
« Reply #29 on: December 06, 2008, 08:41:47 PM »


The Sportsters were 900's,   the 883 didn't come out till years later.


They were 900's until the 1972 model year came out with the 1000
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