The Classic MotorCycle

On any Sunday

While being aware of this seminal 1971 film for years, I had never seen it. Finally though, having stumbled across the entire thing on YouTube, I sat down to watch it and have corrected this omission in my motorcycling education.

Of course, this is not a film about classic motorcycling – at the time, the machines blasting across the screen were new. It’s odd to think that the latest machines seen in the pictures are now approaching half a century old,

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