Steve McQueen CR250M Elsinore advert - love it

**merv** · 20th February 2011, 17:47

I grew up in this era of Steve McQueen and movies like On Any Sunday and I loved it. Wish life was still so easy now with free access to land.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8nJv...layer_embedded

Funny I tried to imbed that video and it shows up in edit mode but then drops back to the URL when I save it so I've left it as a link. What do I have to do to get that right?

**White trash** · 20th February 2011, 18:06

He's probably riding that old "M" faster than I could punt a brand new YZ450 lol. Nice find Merv.

**merv** · 20th February 2011, 18:12

Originally Posted by White trash

He's probably riding that old "M" faster than I could punt a brand new YZ450 lol. Nice find Merv.

Was on Soup http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2011/...whyyouride.htm and it so reminded me of my Youff - went to On Any Sunday in the days I was punting my XL175.

**Number One** · 20th February 2011, 18:29

Loved the tag line at the end...Honda...a mans ride! Hubby found some old steve mc footage and we watched Any Sunday on youtube - what a dag quite a good watch!

**Jay GTI** · 20th February 2011, 18:50

I knew Steve was pretty quick in his day, but that was very cool. Riding gear has moved on somewhat, I could handle the t-shirt, but sod riding in leather pants

**vifferman** · 20th February 2011, 19:50

Originally Posted by merv

Was on Soup http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2011/...whyyouride.htm and it so reminded me of my Youff - went to On Any Sunday in the days I was punting my XL175.

Can't remember eggs zachary what I was riding at the time (either CB175 or MT250), but I remember the movie - all the bikers in the audience were leaning for the corners on the bits filmed from an on-bike camera.

Strangely (or perhaps not...) despite growing up riding bikes like that, I was thinking, "Man! That CR has SO little suspension travel; looks like the rear end was sacked out..."
Bikes have changed a wee bit, eh? There's probably road bikes with more suspension travel than that (and more sophisticated at that). Big thing at the time was making new top mounts and laying the rear shocks down a bit to change the effective rate, and fitting tyre valves to the fork caps and adding a few psi of air to stop them bottoming out so readily.

**cheese** · 20th February 2011, 21:05

That vid reminded me of some of the riding area in Gissy. Wicked video though. Agree that bikes have come a long long way!

**Motu** · 20th February 2011, 23:05

What blew me away with On Any Sunday was the flattrack racing,it's been my favourite motorcycle sport ever since. If I put my DVD of On Any Sunday on,that's the only part I watch.To go that fast sideways on a motorcycle in NZ,the only place you could do it was on gravel roads...I'm still doing that too.

**pete376403** · 20th February 2011, 23:21

Originally Posted by Motu

....To go that fast sideways on a motorcycle in NZ,the only place you could do it was on gravel roads...I'm still doing that too.

You suggesting that speedway is ... not fast? I found that, when pitching the bike sideways with a concrete wall about thirty feet ahead, it didn't seem that slow.

**rogerh** · 21st February 2011, 06:42

Originally Posted by merv

Wish life was still so easy now with free access to land.

Try the US. They still have major land access there. We have some good places to ride here, but they just have so much land allocated to off road riding (and so much land to start with....) you can get kinda jealous. I was there a few months back, and went riding in Utah with a guy the has several hundred km's of track within about 10km from his home. Lots of Colorado, Idaho and Utah are like this, with the forest service maintaining the access.

**Paul in NZ** · 21st February 2011, 06:50

I've still got a pair of those leather 'off road' trousers.... Fetching blue with a gold stripe... noice!

Even saw a dude riding around wellie the other day on an immaculate Elsinor trail bike - very cool...

**denill** · 21st February 2011, 09:14

Originally Posted by Jay GTI

I knew Steve was pretty quick in his day, but that was very cool. Riding gear has moved on somewhat, I could handle the t-shirt, but sod riding in leather pants

Yeah, Steve was no ladies blouse movie star. Rode in ISDTs before they became ISDEs and the ISDTs were REAL challenges - specially on the shit bikes of that era.

He was the real deal motorcyclist.

**Motu** · 21st February 2011, 11:29

Originally Posted by pete376403

You suggesting that speedway is ... not fast? .

Yes,compared to a Mile....

**Paul in NZ** · 21st February 2011, 11:40

Originally Posted by denill

Yeah, Steve was no ladies blouse movie star. Rode in ISDTs before they became ISDEs and the ISDTs were REAL challenges - specially on the shit bikes of that era.

He was the real deal motorcyclist.

The shit bikes of an era were once 'state of the art'... He rode across the era of heavy british desert sleds to light 2 stroke trail / mx bikes. Hell of a time to be at the top of your game.

He was a Triumph 'legend' to me as he rode a TR6 in the ISDT

**denill** · 21st February 2011, 11:54

Originally Posted by Paul in NZ

The shit bikes of an era were once 'state of the art'... He rode across the era of heavy british desert sleds to light 2 stroke trail / mx bikes. Hell of a time to be at the top of your game.

Good point. And worth reflecting that the measure of progress is, that terrain which was once difficult to ride becomes easy on a modern machine.

I think that my skills did not improve at the same rate as bikes improved - but I became a 'better' rider. If you know what I mean?

Originally Posted by Paul in NZ

He was a Triumph 'legend' to me as he rode a TR6 in the ISDT

Try riding one of those in an ISDT now...........