On Any Sunday (movie)

**nudemetalz** · 16th June 2007, 20:28

I got to borrow Bistard's DVD of the 1971 movie "On Any Sunday".
Mrs and I sat down and just finished watching it.
What an awesome movie !!! If you haven't seen it, do !!!

It's unbelievable how fast they ride their bikes with the lack of proection and also handling compared to what we have today.
It's all pure bikes, non of the computer-animated crap that we see today in too many movies.

Now, to find a copy of "On Any Sunday 2"...

Thanks for the loan B.

**Dadpole** · 16th June 2007, 20:42

Don't do it nudemetalz! OAS 2 is the typical Hollywood sequel - done for the money and devoid of the passion that shows through in the original.
i have not seen OAS in years, Must get it on DVD sometime. Just to show my age, I saw OAS at the flicks when it came out.

**merv** · 16th June 2007, 20:53

OAS 2 is still a good movie in my view and has Kenny Roberts on it, but it definitely wasn't the classic the first one was, but that is because the ear-to-ear grin of Malcolm Smith could never be replicated.

We watched OAS 1 at the movies when it first came out too so you can understand why dirt biking was so big with us back then we just all wanted to be like Steve McQueen, Malcolm and Mert Lawill. If you could only ride on the road then you were a bit of a pussy.

**Paul in NZ** · 16th June 2007, 20:56

I have a buncha stuff on DVD - we watched the Kim Newcombe docco tonight - fark - still brings a tear to the eye!

**Dadpole** · 16th June 2007, 21:00

True Merv. The footage in OAS2 is well worth watching, together with King Kenny. The mention of the ear to ear grin had me laughing. Once seen - never forgotten!
I still can't forgive OAS2 for repeating the burning trail bike sequence - in a ham-fisted way.

**Dadpole** · 16th June 2007, 21:06

Originally Posted by merv

If you could only ride on the road then you were a bit of a pussy.

Yes, I was that pussy. Back in the day, I only went off road when my shitty brakes or shittier tyres made it inevitable.

**nudemetalz** · 16th June 2007, 21:33

One of the reasons I saw OAS again was that it was nostalgic for me.
When I was a young boy (around '78) my father & I watched it on a movie projector at home together . This was before VCRs came out (even Beta ones!!), and I remember him saying that "you will be into bikes passionately like that one day". How true that was !!
So it was good to revisit that and share with my wife.

I have seen OAS2 but was such a long time ago then only thing I can remember was the TZ750-powered speed racer at Bonneville.

**Skunk** · 16th June 2007, 21:34

Originally Posted by Paul in NZ

I have a buncha stuff on DVD - we watched the Kim Newcombe docco tonight - fark - still brings a tear to the eye!

Good movie that. Yet to see the end of Stone and OAS.

**Bullitt** · 16th June 2007, 21:36

I just bought the 30th anniversary box set...3 discs brand new off ebay for NZ$41 landed...cant do much better than that.

Havnt had time to watch them yet. Though I saw OAS1 a month or two ago and loved it

**carver** · 12th September 2009, 09:11

now this is a good motorcycle doco overview.

I remember watching this as a kid around the age of 7

follow the series.

enjoy!

**The Pastor** · 12th September 2009, 09:23

hey now that is a good motorcycle documentry!

**hospitalfood** · 12th September 2009, 09:24

great post, have always loved flat track

**carver** · 12th September 2009, 09:39

Originally Posted by hospitalfood

great post, have always loved flat track

just follow the series, its 9 parts....
its got a good spread of different styles

**Headbanger** · 12th September 2009, 11:20

We had a copy of that when I was a kid, Haven't seen it for over 25 years.

Funny enough my 5 year old watched that clip 3 times and asked me for a motorbike.

That explains quite a lot......

**carver** · 12th September 2009, 12:47

Originally Posted by Headbanger

We had a copy of that when I was a kid, Haven't seen it for over 25 years.

Funny enough my 5 year old watched that clip 3 times and asked me for a motorbike.

That explains quite a lot......

i wonder if thats part of the reason i ended up on a bike...