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best motorcycle song..

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.
 
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?sear...born+to+run&search_type=&aq=9&oq=springsteen+
 
Broooce

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.:doorag:
 
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.
 
I have the soundtrack to Easy Rider on my MP3 Player that is hooked into my onboard radio. Also have stuff like Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1980's Battlestar Galatica, Bad to the Bone, John Philip Sousa Military Marches.
It's fun to pull up to a red light with the music going out of my 4 speakers. The cage drivers next to me are listening to my Beach Boys Summer music in Mid November... Always get a grin and a thumbs up...have gotten a few boob flashes from ugly wimmen also. :doorag:
 
Tom in NM said:
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
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Correct, Bob Hope sang that for years.
 
fastfraser said:
:2thumbs: What a great movie !!! Man the thing has to be 40 years old.
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I saw that recently and I was really disappointed. I realize it was Dennis Hopper's first time directing but it really sucked. Forty years ago it was cool though. Of course I was smokin dope back then too and everything was cool.;)
 
Richard Thompson's 52 Vincent

ARTIST: Richard ThompsonTITLE: 1952 Vincent Black LightningLyrics and ChordsSaid Red Molly to James that's a fine motorbikeA girl could feel special on any such likeSaid James to Red Molly, well my hat's off to youIt's a Vincent Black Lightning, 1952And I've seen you at the corners and cafes it seemsRed hair and black leather, my favorite color schemeAnd he pulled her on behindAnd down to Box Hill they did ride/ A - - - D - / - - - - A - / : / E - D A / / E - D A - / Bm - D - / - - - - A - - - /Said James to Red Molly, here's a ring for your right handBut I'll tell you in earnest I'm a dangerous manI've fought with the law since I was seventeenI robbed many a man to get my Vincent machineNow I'm 21 years, I might make 22And I don't mind dying, but for the love of youAnd if fate should break my strideThen I'll give you my Vincent to rideCome down, come down, Red Molly, called Sergeant McRaeFor they've taken young James Adie for armed robberyShotgun blast hit his chest, left nothing insideOh, come down, Red Molly to his dying bedsideWhen she came to the hospital, there wasn't much leftHe was running out of road, he was running out of breathBut he smiled to see her cryAnd said I'll give you my Vincent to ride Says James, in my opinion, there's nothing in this worldBeats a 52 Vincent and a red headed girlNow Nortons and Indians and Greeveses won't doThey don't have a soul like a Vincent 52He reached for her hand and he slipped her the keysHe said I've got no further use for theseI see angels on Ariels in leather and chromeSwooping down from heaven to carry me homeAnd he gave her one last kiss and diedAnd he gave her his Vincent to ride
 
LAMONSTER said that "On Any Sunday" was the movie that got him hooked on motorcycles. (I don't know how to copy a quote from another post, either - need some lessons.)

I was already hooked when I saw the movie but, man, it sank the hook way deeper. Malcolm Smith, Steve McQueen and Mert Lawill are still my heroes. A few years ago, Malcolm was the main speaker at our enduro circuit's awards banquet. He was great - a million stories to tell and all of them involve bikes. I bet I've watched "On Any Sunday" at least 50 times and it's still good. See something else every time I watch. I don't know how anybody could watch it and not want to ride.

Come to think of it, the sun's shining and I'm retired. Think I'll take my BMW for a ride and try to figure out how to afford a Spyder.

Cotton
 
bikeguy said:
LAMONSTER said that "On Any Sunday" was the movie that got him hooked on motorcycles. (I don't know how to copy a quote from another post, either - need some lessons.)

I was already hooked when I saw the movie but, man, it sank the hook way deeper. Malcolm Smith, Steve McQueen and Mert Lawill are still my heroes. A few years ago, Malcolm was the main speaker at our enduro circuit's awards banquet. He was great - a million stories to tell and all of them involve bikes. I bet I've watched "On Any Sunday" at least 50 times and it's still good. See something else every time I watch. I don't know how anybody could watch it and not want to ride.

Come to think of it, the sun's shining and I'm retired. Think I'll take my BMW for a ride and try to figure out how to afford a Spyder.

Cotton
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For quotes, just push the "Quote" button in the selected post. The software will bring up a reply box with the quote contained. Just add to it.

I agree about On Any Sunday. I was hooked by the Triumph documentary films about Isle of Man, Bonneville, and the Jack Pine Enduro. I wish they were available on DVD. OAS just cemented my faith and made me want to be a better racer and rider. Malcolm Smith. Steve McQueen, and Mert Lawill are still my heros. Here is a picture from a few years ago of Mert on my tricycle, a great sport and a real gentleman.
 
NancysToy said:
For quotes, just push the "Quote" button in the selected post. The software will bring up a reply box with the quote contained. Just add to it.

I agree about On Any Sunday. I was hooked by the Triumph documentary films about Isle of Man, Bonneville, and the Jack Pine Enduro. I wish they were available on DVD. OAS just cemented my faith and made me want to be a better racer and rider. Malcolm Smith. Steve McQueen, and Mert Lawill are still my heros. Here is a picture from a few years ago of Mert on my tricycle, a great sport and a real gentleman.
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Thanks for the info on quotes, Scotty. I still have a lot to learn about posting on this forum. I'm a much better lurker than I am a poster. Loved the picture of Mert Lawill on the trike. I don't hear much about Mert anymore. I know he builds custom mountain bikes but I don't know if he still rides motorcycles or not. All those guys were really something. You had to be much of a man to drag a Harley or a Triumph or a BMW through the mud at the Jack Pine.

Cotton
 
bikeguy said:
Thanks for the info on quotes, Scotty. I still have a lot to learn about posting on this forum. I'm a much better lurker than I am a poster. Loved the picture of Mert Lawill on the trike. I don't hear much about Mert anymore. I know he builds custom mountain bikes but I don't know if he still rides motorcycles or not. All those guys were really something. You had to be much of a man to drag a Harley or a Triumph or a BMW through the mud at the Jack Pine.

Cotton
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Thanks, I rode the Pine on 500 Triumphs twice, finished once.
 
SpyderWolf said:
If I was to listen to Linkin Park while riding, I would probably end up going as fast as Doc does! :ohyea:
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If that is what you have to do, doc is a great rider wish I could have put more miles on with him.

On any sunday is a great movie I saw it for the first time after I got hurt but before I got my spyder.

the movie that got me into really thinking about why you ride fast was FASTER. Makes you really think if you could grid it out as a real racer



If you don't think it the best moto gp movie I will buy you lunch.

here is another great riding song

 
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