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/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> The Cafe >> Classic British motorcycle safety PSA (1965)... /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1349632774 Message started by Serowbot on 10/07/12 at 10:59:34 |
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Title: Classic British motorcycle safety PSA (1965)... Post by Serowbot on 10/07/12 at 10:59:34 Take a trip to a simpler time... Nice Matchless and Triumph thumpers... ;)... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atDFqxHLctE&feature=related[/media] Double-click on the video or go here to see bigger... ;)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atDFqxHLctE&feature=related |
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Title: Re: Classic British motorcycle safety PSA (1965).. Post by gerald.hughes on 10/07/12 at 16:43:03 Loved it. Also, the spellings reminded me of why I like living in this country. |
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Title: Re: Classic British motorcycle safety PSA (1965).. Post by runwyrlph on 10/07/12 at 18:49:36 Very good! Reminds me of: "This is E.R. Bradshaw of Napier Court. He cannot be seen... " (That would actually be pretty apropo for motorcycles!) |
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Title: Re: Classic British motorcycle safety PSA (1965).. Post by Gyrobob on 10/10/12 at 07:47:03 No mirrors, no turn signals. What's the "L" on the headlight? Learner? They put the girl on a scooter. Those gender-challenged folks have no right being on a manly motorcycle, eh? This was really interesting. I love this stuff. Thanks. |
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Title: Re: Classic British motorcycle safety PSA (1965).. Post by Dave on 10/10/12 at 07:49:49 I wasn't sure how he could signal with his right hand......and the bike didn't slow down. Maybe those throttle returns where weak....and when you let go of the throttle it stayed where you put it. At one point he appears to be accelerating away while his right hand is in the air? :o |
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Title: Re: Classic British motorcycle safety PSA (1965).. Post by ToesNose on 10/10/12 at 11:33:08 Yea the "L" was for learner, it was after the written test for the equivelant of a permit but before the road test. They couldn't ride at night which is one of the reasons they covered the headlight with it. ;) |
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Title: Re: Classic British motorcycle safety PSA (1965).. Post by engineer on 10/13/12 at 07:07:12 Thanks for posting the great video, I really enjoyed it. In reponse to Dave's comment about the throttle I rode British and European bikes in the sixties. The throttles of the Brit bikes, as I remember them, were very nice and smooth. No heavy spring pressure to fight and they did tend to stay open when you let go of the throttle. They would slowly drift back to the closed position but you had to apply a little pressure to shut them down quickly. The bikes from the continent seemed to have heavier springs and tended to snap closed which caused your hand to cramp up on long trips. |
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Title: Re: Classic British motorcycle safety PSA (1965).. Post by Paraquat on 10/14/12 at 08:43:27 Can you left turn on red in the UK? --Steve |
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Title: Re: Classic British motorcycle safety PSA (1965).. Post by TheFid on 10/15/12 at 04:36:54 PARAQUAT, The answere to your question is NO. |
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Title: Re: Classic British motorcycle safety PSA (1965).. Post by gerald.hughes on 10/15/12 at 17:24:46 Thanks for the posting. Boy, talk about things that trigger memory and rumination. Watching that video did a couple of things. First, it took me back to my childhood. That was made when I had only been riding for about six or seven years. I was a "Newbie", and everything on two wheels, especially if it was made in England, was wonderful. ( I had a 64 Bonny at that time.) There weren't so many bikes or riders on the road at that time, and so it was still a wonderful adventure, a way to be different, and something that was liberating. A second thing that the video triggered in me was produced by the sound. Motorcycles sounded different then. A lot of singles and vertical twins. They don't sound anything like 4 cylinder bikes. They don't sound like v-twins. And the difference in rpms. BIkes back then loped down the road. What a difference. FInally, I was taken by the setting. I have not been lucky enough to ride a bike in Britain, but I have driven a car all over the island, from Land's End, to John O Groats. Once you get off the M roads, even today, 50 is about as fast as you are going to go (unless you are suicidal.) That is one of the reasons for all of the great 250-500cc bikes. You really didn't need, and couldn't use a faster machine for the riding that you were doing. All of which brought me into a fit of nostalgia. SInce reading the posting, I have lowered the rpms and the speed when I ride, and have tried to recreate the sound and experience of a different age of riding. It has been great! |
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Title: Re: Classic British motorcycle safety PSA (1965).. Post by Serowbot on 10/15/12 at 18:19:37 494B5C4F424A00465B49464B5D2E0 wrote:
... and Flea Flicker gasps a sigh of relief... "Ahhhhhhh".... :)... ;D... ... and now,... go back another decade, to Liverpool... 1955... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUxRmDHeE44&feature=related[/media] |
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Title: Re: Classic British motorcycle safety PSA (1965).. Post by gerald.hughes on 10/16/12 at 01:18:11 My God. That was even better than the first one. I think that it would actually make a great instructional film for new riders today. Did you notice how little traffic there was on the roads, even in the cities? Also, I was amazed when at one point in the narrative, it was stated that 1/5 of all vehicles registered in England at that time were bikes. Boy, I would sure love to do a little time travel and be able to ride in England in the mid 50s. |
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Title: Re: Classic British motorcycle safety PSA (1965).. Post by ToesNose on 10/16/12 at 06:36:33 Just go to India, in Pune where I lived 99 out of 100 vehicles are motorcyles. Mostly around 125cc and in the city you really don't get over 35Mph/60Kph. There are even roads just for bikes which was really cool :D It's crazy because bikes are most family's only form of transportation, so I would see all sorts of crazy things being carried on them and crazy amounts of people on single bikes too ;D |
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