Full Throttle; Glory Days of British Motorbikes

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Just a heads up.

Monday 28th Oct at 9pm on BBC4 there’s a program about the British bike industry.

Details

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Mug of Castrol R

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Bumpety bump

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Yep

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Yep, thoroughly enjoyed that. And he didn't shame the family, double win

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Bit more time to reply properly now

I thoroughly enjoyed the whole program. There was a lot of video I'd not seen before and I really enjoyed seeing/hearing the Brough and AJS (which was the same model as we have!) on telly too. I felt that some of the onboard stuff really seemed to capture how it feels riding a vintage bike too, which was cool.

Hats off to the BBC for putting something on at a reasonably prime time showing such a niche interest.

I've sent some of the quotes/praise for the show from here to my bro, who was going to speak to the director today so hopefully he'll pass them on

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Seems the blokes on a Ducati forum I was just shown weren’t so impressed! They rant on about how all the contributors came from a “privileged background or position” – haha like your typical Ducati owner’s a pauper!

Knobs

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RumpleFugly said:

Also available on iPlayer of course

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03fv7sl/Time...

Do you know of a way a friend in the States could watch it?

He saw the link on Facebook and is all jealous now as he wants to watch it, but I don't think iplayer works abroad?

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3DP said:

Very good program I thought and well done to srob's brother coming across so well in the program too.

Unusually well pitched by the BBC - not sensationalising the death stuff too much, with the right balance of beardiness and laymen stuff to be interesting to all.

Made me go browsing E-bay for old bikes

Was added interest for me as my Dad was a Rocker in 1962 to 1963 and lived in Eastbourne. He had a bath tub chassis 1959 Triumph Speed Twin. His dad was a police man though, so it caused quite a lot of friction there, mainly due to the scrapping and fighting Rockers seemed to do a lot of.

When he landed a reputable job, he sold up and bought a Frog eyed Sprite.

Cheers Pete, it's funny how tv changes someone, he sounded (and looked!) completely different to real life

You should have a go on a classic bike, it's a whole different world from riding a modern but it's somehow far more relaxing

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GadgeS3C said:

Simon (srob) - I'm obviously not in with the in crowd - who is your brother?
Gary

He was one of the blokes talking, mainly he was in the first half of the show talking about the vintage (1920s) stuff. He's the editor of The Classic Motorcycle magazine and was the only one under 45 years old, I think

To be fair I'd not mentioned that he was on there (thought that would sound a bit look at me!), just that I know lots of these folk from real life too and they recognised him. Personally, I don't think we look alike at all

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PurpleTurtle said:

I watched it and thoroughly enjoyed it, even though I'm into modern rather than classic bikes. I was watching your brother thinking "there's someboy who loves their job", must admit I was a tad envious, in the 'wold love a job that involves my hobby' type way.

Cheers, I'll pass that on

Yeah he does love his job but it really is a full time job plus a bit. He works literally every weekend through the summer, and I think that you lose a little bit of love for your hobby when you have to do it. I'm fairly sure he wouldn't change it for much though! He gets a free longterm (brand new!) bike every year as well. Lucky git