Close your eyes and you can hear the theme song: On Any Sunday, stretching up, reaching high, leaving my Monday world behind… And when you do close your eyes and hear that song, what scene plays across your internal movie screen? Mert Lawwill broadsliding a Harley-Davidson XR-750 on the Mile? Steve McQueen masquerading as Harvey Mushman at the Elsinore Grand Prix? JN Roberts dodging Mojave Desert puckerbushes? Freckle-faced Jeff Ward wheelying a Honda Z50? Or is it Malcolm Smith blasting across Baja on a red-and-chrome Husqvarna? Each of these is among the most iconic—and enduring—images in all of motorcycling. For the better part of a year we conducted surveys, formal and informal, and almost to a man, everyone we asked said something about On Any Sunday. Bruce Brown’s Academy Award-nominated documentary film introduced a whole generation to motorcycling, and continues to do so today, 40 years after its 1971 release.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 16:49:31 +0000
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