classic movie

[maicoman18]

OK, who is going to win this so that we all can ask for a copy.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Sidewinder-1-MotoCross-Maico-Collector-Edition-DVD_W0QQitemZ330387808037QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_DVD_HD_DVD_Blu_ray?hash=item4ceca5df25

Ed

[firko]

                                   

Count me in for a copy! I've actually seen Sidewinder 1 a couple of times and it's so bad it's great. The story is one of a bloke who develops a trick new MX bike but has to fight off the bad guys who don't want him or the bike to succeed.
Besides the acting tour'd'force by screen legend Marjoe Gortner in the lead role and a soundtrack by rock god, the late  Eddie Rabbit, the real star of the movie is the blue Maico playing 'Sidewinder'. The 75 Maico is a pretty trick unit for its day, fitted with Morris Mag wheels, disc brakes and the whole Wheelsmith catalogue. Apparently they made about 6 or 7 bikes for the movie and in about 1978 I was competing in a desert event on the Husky auto when I was passed by a blue Maico with mag wheels which must have been one of the movie bikes. I remember one claiming to be the movie bike coming up on the Swapmeet site back when Jeff ran it, off memory it was pretty rooted but looked all there.

[firko]

What the Hell....I bought it as a Christmas pressie to myself.

[albrid-3]

Warm December  Sydney Pointer racing BSA B50 in ENGLAND, don`t a bad movie, good racing still got the dvd.

[D project]

I remember going to the drive inn when I was a kid to see this. The first time we were meant to see it I told dad the wrong date and puberty blues was on instead, boy was I in the bad books!

[GD66]

Pointer ? 

[KB171]

This would be the blue Maico  Early water cooled model 

[firko]

Early water cooled model 

That's the bike but it's a '75 or '76 model, no water cooling.

[yzhilly]

puberty Blues we used to ride our pushy's to the Rowville Drive Inn and jump the fence and watch it  .Luved it

[maicoman18]

Is that the famous Michael Parks in the photo from "Then Came Bronson"? Bloke who used to ride around America on a Harley. One episode he entered his Harley in a cross country dirt bike race and won it.

Ed

[pancho]

i saw a movie when i was a kid about 1950 starring Bill Williams. it was called "The Pace That Thrills." Even at my age i knew it was a load of crap but it was a bit of fun to watch, It was about this top dirt track rider with no money doing all sorts of impossible tricks to win races. I would like to see it again for laughs! cheers wally.