For once, this page isn’t strictly about motorcycle racing, but its subject has affected the sport for many decades. Seventy years ago was released. The movie was inspired by the events of July 1947 – or rather, by wildly exaggerated reports of those events – when a few thousand motorcyclists met in the Californian town of Hollister for an annual happening that included racing, socialising and drinking. Things got out of a hand: bikers roared up and down the streets, sozzled as skunks and loud as hell, and there were a
