Slightly O/T...On Any Sunday...the movie...

So...on a similar note...If anyone in HAMBland hasn't ordered one of the Mad Fab. Society videos yet...WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! I got mine yesterday, before I managed to get around to getting a dvd player...today I bought the dvd player! Man, you wanna talk about "bang for your buck"! It's CRAZY! There's enough there for 2 or 3 volumes at that price!! One of the coolest ideas I've seen in a long time. So first I'm all amped about "The Endless Summer", then "On Any Sunday" and now I have "MFS"...been a big couple of weeks for me and videos...which doesn't usually happen. I'm checking out "Step Into Liquid" next weekend...

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Saw On Any Sunday at the theater as a kid and they played Endless Summer as a 2nd feature. Talk about overload on a young brain. Bruce Brown was now in my vocabulary. I stayed to watch On Any Sunday a 2nd time that day.(You could do that back then,they did'nt kick you out)

Later as a teen I found a slightly water damaged Endless Summer Album at a thrift store. Still own it today and play it often.

On Any Sunday II is good but IMO does'nt compare to the first one. Still worth seeing.

Malcolm Smith just did it all.Thats what made him great. I loved the part where he heads up Widowmaker and did damn near as good as anyone there on their hill climb bikes.


Its hard to say how well these new young riders would have did back in the day. Bikes have definately came along way and the suspesions are amazing these days and very forgiving on the big bumps and rough tracks.

 

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Yes, couple time's a year.Timless and Pure. Would'nt it be killer to see them both at a real big screen, like a movie theater? Like it was meant to be seen......HAMB mid-night movie? Dig it, I knew that you could.

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What Movies are playing in ATL for the Drive-in meet?

 

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So...on a similar note...If anyone in HAMBland hasn't ordered one of the Mad Fab. Society videos yet...WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! I got mine yesterday, before I managed to get around to getting a dvd player...today I bought the dvd player! Man, you wanna talk about "bang for your buck"! It's CRAZY! There's enough there for 2 or 3 volumes at that price!! One of the coolest ideas I've seen in a long time. So first I'm all amped about "The Endless Summer", then "On Any Sunday" and now I have "MFS"...been a big couple of weeks for me and videos...which doesn't usually happen. I'm checking out "Step Into Liquid" next weekend...

Whole Lotta Cool

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Bruce Brown Is my Hero!!!

When I cut the DVD All I could think of was I want it like Endless summer, On Any Sunday..And DOg town Z boys..Those movies had a Big Influence on how I got "My Style"...I was 10 the first time I saw On any sunday and was hooked since!!!

Bruce Brown and Stacy Paralta are Rulers in my world!!!

Thanks for the good words!!!
I'm glad you Liked it!!

Evel

 

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Malcolm Smith just did it all.Thats what made him great. I loved the part where he heads up Widowmaker and did damn near as good as anyone there on their hill climb bikes.


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Yeah...that part was pretty cool. I liked it when everyone was struggeling to walk their bikes back down the hill and Malcom hops on his and RIDES it down! Everyone is just freakin out...good action!

 

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Another movie I really liked that had a lasting impression was a movie called "10" or something like that. No not Bo Derek but a short flick by the Eames brothers?

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Haha -- "Eames brothers" -- that made me chuckle.

Hate to squash your notions of who the Eames were, but Charles and Ray Eames were HUSBAND and WIFE.




The film to which you're referring was called "Powers of Ten" (1977).

 

I had Robert August sign my longboard and I resined over it. He is such a wicked nice guy, and so appreciative of the opportunity to go on the "Endless Summer". I met Wingnut from ES2 as well, very fitting name.

 

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Been tryng to buy a copy of On Any Sunday for a long time,
Does anyone know where I can order it on line?
Blockbusters don`t have it.
Thanks...JR

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Amazon has it... or had it when I ordered it some time back.

 

3 words... MERT FUCKING LAWILL!

I got to hang out with him a few summers back on the road when he was designing downhill bikes for schwinn... he's a great guy.

 

The Bruce Brown movies are killer!!!

BTW... I rode downhill/dual slalom at the '93 Mountainbike World Championships in France with Mert Lawill's son, Joe Lawill. That was pretty bitchin'!!

 

Check the "On any Sunday" box set here...

http://www.4130.com/boxoffice/index.html

 

Remember when the best dirt bikes were Greeves, Bultaco and CZ? Every place that you could hillclimb had a "Greeves Hill". That was always the toughest climb.
Hondas were just something I blew by on my Combat Wombat!
When I got a Greeves, I thought that was the ultimate rip snorting mountain tameing dirt bike ever...

I think my 83 650 Honda street bike has as much suspension travel as that old Greeves, and probably doesn't weigh much more...

 

Both cool movies, watched On any Sunday back in I guess the 80's with my bro, Step into Liquid is well recomended too.
That first still of the speedway bike looks to be Kiwi legend Ivan Mauger I think he is like 6 times world champ, still riding and promoting long track racing today.

 

"Step Into Liquid" is on Showtime tonight at 8pm Central.

 

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Another movie I really liked that had a lasting impression was a movie called "10" or something like that. No not Bo Derek but a short flick by the Eames brothers?

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Haha -- "Eames brothers" -- that made me chuckle.

Hate to squash your notions of who the Eames were, but Charles and Ray Eames were HUSBAND and WIFE.




The film to which you're referring was called "Powers of Ten" (1977).

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HAHAHAHAHA Ray is a man! That's the movie though! phew I'm glad I am not the only one who knew what I was talking, about I thought maybe it was all just a flashback.

sorry for the ot ot hijack Barnett! I did have a couple Husqvarna bikes that were about the same vintage as the bikes in the On Any Sunday flick. My friends grandpa gave them to us to fix. Those things were heavy and unruly as hell but they hauled ass! nothing like the flickable dirtbikes today.

 

I think there is also an "On Any Sunday Revisited". It could be the sequel you are talking about, but I don't think it is. It has much more current interviews with all the riders (who are still around). Pretty cool watching them talk about their glory days.

 

That film changed my life. Started racing moto in the mid 70s. I am 44 now and still racing motocross and X/C

 

hey i saw that movie whan i was like 10 or so on the old speed vision saturday night movie special and damn i got pretty hooked on motorcycles for a while

 

In the early 1970's I was growing up in Boca Raton and my dad was racing enduro's and rode a Penton, or a Rokan. He was 4th in the state for 1974 and I can remember how those guys raced. Back then it took a real man to ride a bike with 4 to 6 inches of travel. My pops still rides and now its a 1978 250 husky, 1979 250 husky, or for fooling around a 1976 125 husky. My favorite part of the movie is two. One when the trials rider goes by the little kid doin a wheelle that kills me the second is seeing Malcom smith cutting the barbed wire fence and passing all those riders and cutting back in with out missing a beat. Malcom is a god on a motorcycle as far as I am concerned.

 

Man.. Your right... I raced for a few years, and starting when I was 15 I was on my own going to tracks, and paying for it... That made me realize how much I LOVED it. For me a good day at the track was better than any sex I had ever had(and that still holds true)... It didnt matter if I won or lost, and long as I rode on the edge, didnt leave with the paramedics, and was with some good freinds... I worked a job, in a camera shop, for a koreian guy who barley spoke english, making less then min. wage, working more than legal hours for my age, just so I can get on the track... When I was getting out of racing(last year), it was in its transation to being mainstreem... And I think that took some of the fun away from it... Too much preasure from sponsors, too much drive to win, and too may injuries(4 freinds got carflighted my last year racing) due to thoes things... And it all got to expensive cause I was pushing to go pro. Anyways, Ill definatley, get back into it, but it will probably be at the little tracks, with little turnouts, with good freinds, cause even though being at a race with 90 other riders in your class is an experince, it was the days with 5, 10 or 20, that made me love the sport... And reguarding "not knowing how fast you can go till you fall down", Ive got a screw in my feamur, a spinal cord injury, and few concussions under my belt, and that never scared me away.. Anyways, im probably rambling... But taliking about it reminds me of the passion I have for it... Ill check out that surfiing move too... If any of you DFW area hambers wanna check out some racing, let me know, and Ill tell you about a couple of the smaller tracks where you can see racing at its purest. I think Im gonna sit down and watch my copy of "On Any Sunday"...


Thanks, Cory

 

Its bad ass that hes doing MTB stuff now... I freeride now to help fill the void left my motocross, and a few freinds have been tryin to get me to hit the ARK D/H series... Any of you HAMBers ride? Any of yall ride back in the day? I would love to see some old pics of yall surfing, skatin, or on a bmx bike back in the day, cause im not old enough to have been there "back in the day"....

 

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that flick is so badass!

 

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I think there is also an "On Any Sunday Revisited". It could be the sequel you are talking about, but I don't think it is. It has much more current interviews with all the riders (who are still around). Pretty cool watching them talk about their glory days.

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"On Any Sunday Revisited" is a different movie. It's a retrospective documentary on the making and impact of the original "On Any Sunday."

 

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I've got the DVD box set, and every time I watch it, I think about how these hill climbers and 'dirt bikes' are basically my street bike with knobby tires and scrambler pipes thrown on

Then I think about the Travis Pastranas of the world and wonder what they could do back then.. The suspensions were not there, and the bikes weighed at least twice as much.

Also, your crotchrocket showoff bikers that you see those dipshit videos at Best Buy like the Star Boyz (or whatever they are called)...

I'm curious if they'd have stood out back then with their skills.. I always wonder how much the machine at hand is responsible for the capabilities these riders exhibit.

I usually throw on any sunday in during the winter, when I'm jonsing to ride my own bike, and there's a foot of snow on the ground.



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Come on now man... Its all about the love riding. You cant say that technology has shit to do with whats going down today on 2 wheel... Its all about progression... If I could go back in time I could hang with those guys and maybe beet them. But I wouldent stand a chance at making a pro main at any out door national... Shit, Id probably even get my ass handed to me in the Intermediate class now at a lot of bigger events... And the starboyz... With all that stuntin shit, now guys are pullin up stoppies and 150+mph and I think the record is a little over 900ft... Thats skill. And balls. But anyways. Riding is all about fun. Its a passon that gets burned into you. After reading this post, Im seirously considering buying my freinds CR450F and gettin vack into it... The riding in On Any Sunday was amazing for the time. But what makes it so great is the passon, dedication and all thoes things.... Anybody disagree?


Jumping back to the top, any of yall rember when Carey Heart first pulled the back flip? Watch the next X-games. I cant straight up say it, but Pastrana has something that no one else does. Ill give you a hint... Hes doin two of em... Fuckin crazy...

 

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Jumping back to the top, any of yall rember when Carey Heart first pulled the back flip? Watch the next X-games. I cant straight up say it, but Pastrana has something that no one else does. Ill give you a hint... Hes doin two of em... Fuckin crazy...

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I saw that and almost shit myself. My stomach just dropped.
If Pastrana pulls off 2 of em I might as well watch it on the toilet.