best motorcycle song..

[chris56]

had some discussion whats the best bikers-song .. for me its this..
maybe someone knows - where is this highway ??
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chris

[fastfraser]

What a great movie !!! Man the thing has to be 40 years old.

[BLACK WIDOW]

had some discussion whats the best bikers-song .. for me its this..
maybe someone knows - where is this highway ??
YouTube- EASY RIDER The weight by the band
`chris

Brings back memories--Back when I was riding a Honda CL 450

Michael

[BRPjunkie]

"Roll Me Away" by Bob Seger, but I'm from Michigan and have a Bob Seger bias. Had to change the lyrics to "my big three wheeler".

[Director]

"Roll Me Away" by Bob Seger, but I'm from Michigan and have a Bob Seger bias. Had to change the lyrics to "my big three wheeler".

Yep, "Roll Me Away." It has been my best loved motorcycle song for many years now.

Bruce

[bikeguy]

For us Texas riders, it's got to be "I've Been Everywhere (in Texas That Is)" I'm not smart enough to embed a Youtube video, but here's a link.



Cotton

[Director]

For us Texas riders, it's got to be "I've Been Everywhere (in Texas That Is)" I'm not smart enough to embed a Youtube video, but here's a link.

YouTube- I've Been Everywhere (In Texas that is!)

Cotton

You are smarter than you think, Cotton. You successfully embedded that vid!
(Great video, BTW!)

Bruce

[Lamonster]

For us Texas riders, it's got to be "I've Been Everywhere (in Texas That Is)" I'm not smart enough to embed a Youtube video, but here's a link.

YouTube- I've Been Everywhere (In Texas that is!)

Cotton

Never heard that one, that was great.

Here's Johnny

[bikeguy]

How about that? I didn't realize it was that easy to embed a video. And that is a good video. I'm still trying to figure out just how many of those places I've been to.

Cotton

[Tom in NM]

had some discussion whats the best bikers-song .. for me its this..
maybe someone knows - where is this highway ??

chris

Chris, part of that looks like some shots from the Painted Desert in Arizona, but it ends in Monument Valley ( I was there at the beginning of October, but was Sypderless )

Living here in New Mexico ( where some of the other scenes were filmed ) we call that the Four Corners area - where New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado all meet.

Here is a link that outlines where some of the movie's scences were shot.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...9220721AAmi6no

Google " Monument Valley " for images and look at Google Maps for where it is. It was probably filmed - in part - on Highway US-163 Scenic, but the final pans of the camera were deeper into Monument Valley, off the highway.

I've attached a picture from when I flew in, this October. It is about 300 miles from where I live. And, there are some other great things to see on the way and on the way back.

Oh, and I agree with BRPjunkie, "Roll Me Away" by Bob Seger, is the motorcycle song for me - but I'm from Michigan, too.

Tom

[davepick]

What a fantastic thread, with all the doom and gloom around this this thread just makes you smile and feel good
I agree with Tom, some early shots look like the Painted Desert or even the road down to Moab but the later stuff is definitely Monument Valley, I’ve ridden it a bunch of times and its awesome – we were there early in the morning one time and it was just like Easy Rider – nothing else on the road, the road stretching out for miles ahead and just me and a buddy taking a lane each…….boy it just feels good to think of it…..thanks Chris
And the best song, Steppenwolf, Born to be Wild…no contest

[glynnk]

[rnet]

Been watching this thread throuout the day, wondering. Back in the late seventies and eighties I used to do audio for touring bands that played in poughkeepsie, ny at the civic center. Most all country acts, comedians and even the WWF when Hulk Hogen was in his hayday, so I have so say this sure does bring back memories. I still break out the gear a couple of times a year, but it sure took a toll on my hearing. Today the only thing I would do different, use hearing protection. Anyway, (thanks for the memories) who sang that line.

[SpyderWolf]

Great songs and videos. Thanks for posting those!

[Motza]

this is a great thread really enjoyed it!

[Director]

What a fantastic thread, with all the doom and gloom around this this thread just makes you smile and feel good
And the best song, Steppenwolf, Born to be Wild…no contest

And here it is:



Bruce

[Director]

What a great movie !!! Man the thing has to be 40 years old.

Good catch, Dan. "Easy Rider" was released in 1969. I remember lining up to see it the first night it showed here. Yikes! Forty years ago!

Bruce

[chris56]

thanks for your help ! some i didn`t know - hope to get a BRP iPod for christmess .. to load up each one -
and also if i never had a honda - this song is on place two..
first gear- its all right..

rong - i had a goldwing for a year..

[musicarcade]

Well, it's not the *best* but it sticks in my brain once in a while....


"I don't want a pickle....."

[Tom in NM]

Anyway, (thanks for the memories) who sang that line.

According to Wikipedia:

"Thanks for the Memory" (1938) is a popular song, with music composed by Ralph Rainger and lyrics by Leo Robin. It was introduced in the 1938 film The Big Broadcast of 1938 by Shep Fields and His Orchestra with vocals by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross.
In the film, Hope and Ross's characters are a couple who were married briefly and then divorced, and after other failed marriages, meet and sing poignantly about the good times of their failed relationship.
The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and became Hope's signature tune, with many different lyrics adapted to any situation.

Tom

[bikeguy]

Director posted a video of "Born to be Wild" from "Easy Rider". I will admit that I didn't care for that song at all because I am a Country music guy and I just don't normally listen to anything that doesn't have a fiddle in it. Then along about 1973 or 1974, our motorcycle club had a lot of pictures from an enduro we held and several of us put a slide show together and the music we used was "Born to be Wild".

I know "Born to be Wild" is about street riding and we had a lot of dirt bike pictures, but somehow the music just fit. It turned out really good, and I've loved the song ever since. Every time I hear "Born to be Wild" it brings back really good memories and you can't ask music to do more than that.

[mdr]

Gotta go with two favorites:

1. Meatloaf: Bat out of Hell (even though things don't end so well for the rider!)


"I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram
On a silver black phantom bike
When the metal is hot and the engine is hungry
And we're all about to see the light"




2. Springsteen: Born to Run


"Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend
I want to guard your dreams and visions
Just wrap your legs round these velvet rims
And strap your hands across my engines
Together we could break this trap
We'll run till we drop, baby we'll never go back
Will you walk with me out on the wire
`cause baby I’m just a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta find out how it feels
I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...q=springsteen+

[musicarcade]

Huge Springsteen fan. Would like to have "Born to Run" Written on my back fender, if I could figure out a nice design with it.

[SethO]

the weight is a great song to ride to

this is are my favorite songs to ride to:























my riding list on the ipod I ride has about 720 songs on it, for those of you that also ride with music, I have found that I can ride better at times with it and sometimes I can ride faster without it. BUT it is much more of a release to ride with it and get into some twisties that match up with what you are listening to, makes life nirvana and NOTHING else matters. Even being like I am now I can get going faster that most people are willing to go on 2 wheels. I don't know if it the feeling of freedom of doing what a normal person would never do or being so close to dying that you are really living.

[spyryder]

.......if the chain don't break!