The History and Evolution of "Bikers"
2021 ж. 13 Мау.
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After trolling through hours of archives I've managed to piece together a slightly accurate and informative package which includes some great old footage on the history of bikers, their lifestyles and culture.
The Aussie accent is so thick I had to put the subtitles ON. Great video ! 🙂
The wild one is what gave all bikers their image.
The narration makes me so proud to be Aussie!
As a kiwi, nothing pleases me more than this Aussie narration, R.I.P. Sir Les Patterson one of the best
I find myself annoying...
Aussie Larrakin narrator, Bon Scott will be proud!
Great content. Great narrative. Your choice of phrases cracks me up. I think your historic review is spot on. Thanks for the video.
Good onya mate!
Loved the comical & profane Aussie narrator, and couldn't believe how outrageous some of those movies were. GREAT film footage!
Brilliantly narrated with loads of vintage film clips .
*Outstanding!... Thanks. Greetings from Bangkok. I was born in Suomi-Finland. Resident in sunny tropical THAILAND Johnny BikeSanooK/CarSanooK*
Hollister the beginning of fake 🤥 news!! Loved every minute of this video!!
Fake news been used since the beginning of time
The Yellow Jackets were the racing club off shoot of The Boozefighters. Ernie Roccio was a part of it and eventually went to England to race for the Wimbledon Dons during the early 50s.
Onya, Lee Marvin!
Great video, i really enjoyed it, you have a outstanding way of describing events, great story teller, keep making video's for us to enjoy.
Good content...I love old school biker footage...always Fun! 🖖🏿😎👍🏿
Great bit of history on the Cook County Outlaws ,Chicago Outlaws ,Outlaws and the history of their patches as well .
I learned a lot when looking into this, cheers mate.
I love this humorous and actually quite accurate look at motorcycling. Lived through a lot of it myself as I first passed my test in 1969. The narrator is brilliant...
Thanks for that mate. Loving the positive feedback!
Just subbed!! Commentary is hilarious!!!! Keep up the good work
Excellent video.🎉 After 42 years always on 2 wheels on the road. L+ R from Greece...keep on riding..
Very well made thanks mate!!!
GREAT documentary! Cool pics and I love the narration 🤣
Very entertaining and well researched. Good work, mate.
It's a bit tricky to find much in the way of unbiased info on this topic.
Narration was spot on. Thanks for sharing.
That image of the guy on the bike surrounded with beer bottles appeared in LIFE magazine, note TIME
I have always ridden Hondas I am not a bad a$$ biker but you meet the nicest people on a Honda I have a 72 honda XL250 and a shadow 750 aero and a CB750c I have owned a goldwing and 3 CB750f and one CB900f ( the only thing faster than that 900 was a speeding ticket )
Thank you sir for the wonderful docu
Awesome mate, loved it!
Nice! Great script and narration!
enjoyed that, cheers from the U.K.
Started riding in 1964, it's been a hoot to watch the sport change. Your video was absolutely great and way more accurate than most.
Cheers mate!
Well done and very funny!
I loved those B-movie biker films. They used to have all night showings of them at our local cinema. It was a riot
after 65 to 72 were the best days, petrol oil grease metal
Nicely done.
It's late. Bed time. I'm 1 minute 2 seconds in and already laughing. Maybe half an hour more.
Brilliant effin loved it😊
Fantastic ,thanks for sharing mate . Regards Dave from Scotland
Onya Dave from Scotland, regards jack from Oz!
I will be joining this prestigious club soon, oh yes. Future biker in the making over here. Nothing beats the wind in your hair and the sound of that engine 😎
Peace
Check on a riding school
Love the intro
Brilliant . Thanx
Long live Lee Marvin !!!
Hahaha! That was 20 something minutes well spent. 21:20 I don't want back.
Great comment! Cheers for that.
Fab man...! Good video.
Class video 👍
brilliant great video
Love the deadpan delivery/humour the aussies have, top doc!
Onya Dave!
i enjoyed that...cheers mate
Great Clip.
Good good on ya mate, loved it 😂🤣😆✊♠️
Mate that was funny, I enjoyed that immensely, I've also seen the scene change over the last 40+ years, when I started riding in 1978, bikers were generally a kindred spirit, if you broke down one would stop to help, and you'd get a nod from a passing biker, nowadays thats pretty rare, as "biking" as you say become a wannabe thing, it seems, now whether the likes of Charlie and Ewan have done that made it more accessible to the masses I don't know or even if thats a good thing or not tbh !!! I worked in a bike shop a few times over the years, and the last time about 10/12 years ago, we'd get all these wannabe newbie bikers coming in, mainly 40+ somethings, with a few quid in their pockets from being an accountant or some such, and decided they eventually want to get a bike, because as a kid mummy wouldn't let them, they would buy gear, and they'd spend £50-100 UK on a basic pisspot helmet, yet when you asked what bike they'd bought it generally was a £20K+ Harley, or Indian... just incredible 🙄 but then a biker newbie or not is another person on 2 wheels, which can't be bad.
My crew's a bit of a mix on new and old riders. the one thing we do have in common is having a bloody good laugh with a few beers in hand after a day on the road. The only time I got pissed off with people i was riding with was doing Route 66 tour with a group of randoms, many of which found it too hot and tiring and were always wanting to get to the next hotel as quick as possible.
Pretty good video 👍
If Australia had ever built it's own motorbike or own culture I might take this seriously. It is and was always a creative fucking wasteland. I can't see that changing.
It's either same as America or the street bike groups same as the rest of the world
A hundred years ago Australia had dozens of motorcycle manufacturers
I love B grade movies 🤣😂😂 Great doco 🎼🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Cool vid.
What movie was Jimmy's precautionary tale from? I don't think I've ever seen it.
It was one of those "educational" films from the era. (I took some liberties during the editing process.)
- Thanks for clearing that up, because I was thinking I missed a good one.@@1couple2bikes
Good one! 👍🍻
Good video. Well said too
Best motor cycle video of all time perfect narration. Yup look out for those pricks on two wheels 🛞 LMAO. 😅🤣😁
I understood only 30% but fucking great video
What? because of my accent or my mumbling or the complex structure of my story telling?
At the 2:39 mark did I see a Henderson crash?
Gold.
The media and the police created the image off the Biker time article and many movies have shaped our image
I lived it in the 60s 70s and 80s..................now I got one foot in the grave
Easy Rider! Where they don't go over 30mph! Lol
I like your "in the beginning" 😅
You seem to have entirely forgotten the British motorcycle scene .....
There was a British motorcycling scene? What impact did it have?
@@1couple2bikeswell on some convict camp in the middle of nowhere.... not a lot. However in the UK I do believe half a dozen or so guys rode some bikes around, but nicely.
@@1couple2bikes The yanks had The Wild One we had Stone and speaking of bum fu ked the poms had Leather Boys Have you seen Leather Boys ? 🤣
thanks for the video! the word Biker has so much baggage; I choose to identify as a rider.
Question, have you ever ridden a motorcycle and are you still riding now?
Nah mate I just get pillioned around by the missus...
@@1couple2bikes Indeed, riding home on a Sunday morning, pillion on the ZRX1100, the girl I'd always loved riding it, slightly hungover myself....
In the 80's I remember rocking up for a job with my woman on the bitch seat. I did the interview, got the job. It was in Beenleigh Qld. The woman was sitting/lounging on the bike. I walked out from the interview and there were massive apologies. Then they explained that they worked for the joint, but were Bikies, not Bikers. Please accept their apologies. Sure, I just got the job. The next day I rocked up with colours on. I was not a "Bikie". Although, there was a bloke with Norseman MC tattooed onto his arm. He was from Adelaide of course - I know, because I had Mandamas MC tattooed onto mine in the same place.
Brilliant ❤🏍🏍🏍🏍👊👍
What is that song at 2:00 in the video? Really cool and interesting
Marlon Brando runs like Steven Seagal
Thanks. Not enough 1930s-1950s history available. Where were the cameras then?
They were all filming something more important 😂
Great job putting that together, you tell a good story. I'm glad you didn't show the current crop of Aussie Bikies all roided up in their gym gear. Looks like they spend way more time in front of a mirror preening themselves than actually riding a bike.
Aussi lingo cracks me up
Great Aussie Narrator
Onya mate
Side fact: @ 9.44 you'll see Hank Kimball, from "Green Acres" being given a quick shove in the chest.
FUKN CLASSIC.
Right out of the gate: ""The term biker was popularized in the 1980s"??????? Is this an Aussie version of the history? I didn't even get 1 minute in.
Didn't Australia have Ton-Up Boys/greasers in the 50/60s or was it just a British thing
Yeah we had that sort of thing if not the exact same thing.
Comments about modern cyclist got immediate sub and like from me.😂
The intro alone demonstrated what bikes are all about. Oh sure, you can go down the "freedom of two wheels" and "the brotherhood of riding" but in all reality it boils down to two things: Boobs, and butts. I wouldn't change it for the world.
Holster, stage screen and LIFE magazine, did a number on the folks who rode in clubs. Never an issue, until politics got involved with jus a ride to then a small town to get away. My grand father, a member of a club called “ Clapping Gooses” motorcycle club which most were veterans from the World War II. Just traveling to meet other clubs. Never any issues or arrests. The political fever could let that happen, so they made it all up to scare the folks. Make hate! Not fun! Californias politicians still at it today.
They were called Galloping Goose Mc. Not clapping Goose
😂😂😂👍
Most of them were bomber Crew in ww ll after the war it was hard to settle down so they just bought bikes and Hit the road 😅
Cant believe y'all censored the Dave Mann painting removing the ⚡⚡ from the gas tank.How woke!!
Not me, i just grabbed it from the net
Since 1901-Indian
Bosozoku
Let's not forget Lazareth...........who rose from the yoke of oppression.......to benefit the community..............
Bikers use to be known as Vikings!
Why? Because they were surrounded by 'oars?
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Evolution or Involution?
Whatever you want it to be sport, no skin off my nose.
"....... saved it from being totally gay." Ooh, you naughty naughty narrator!, 😁
Well done mate you can come over and read the dictionary to me any time lol
I give the movie 1/10 dumbest thing I’ve ever seen, I always thought Brando was a good actor 😳
A big fat fukyou to damien coganoto for introducing the american term "biker" to the australian bikie scene in about 84. Yes, that is actually what happened. He went on to work in politics which makes sense.
Cheers for the follow up. I didn't know that.
village people on bikes!!😆
Love the commentary. Lee Marvin made that movie. The rest sucked.
You are a man of good taste
Thought this would be interesting. Couldn't watch because of the blare of the music.......
So you one of these old blokes who has to turn the radio down when they drive so they can see better?
I do not need pulse pounding music to tell me something is interesting.
I didn't understand anything. Thick accent...
What! Ya Galah, it’s bloody proper bloody English mate, jeez, what are ya…poofta 🙄. Joking 😬
Ya missus been ear-bashing ya ?
Your video would’ve been good except for your cussing. I don’t know why you think you have to do that.
Fucked if I know mate?!
Ohh, that's homophobic. Wow, someone's living in 1950s then 11:23
Seriously? Are you lost or something?!
methinks you are conflating bikers with bikies.
I've had this argument with my brother. I probably haven't explained it properly in the video but motorcyclists weren't called bikers/bikies until relatively recently. According to my research the first recorded use of the term "Biker" when referencing motorcyclists was by an American journalist in the early 70's. The term took off in the US and of course Aussies being Aussies adopted the term "Bikie" instead. In the following couple of decades "Bikie" transformed to mean more 1%ers than everyday riders as we started to user "Biker" to describe the rest. My brother hates that term as it's too American, but love it or hate it that's what they've come to mean.
@@1couple2bikes theres still two types of "the rest".. theres bikers, and motorcyclists. the biker being the type who makes it a lifestyle choice, and the motorcyclist being the type who just happens to have a motorcycle, probably because its cheap to buy/run or they can lane filter while commuting, or theres not much parking at work, or it was left to him by his granddad or some other 'purely for incidental' reason.. the three camps are easily summed up in few words liek this : bikers - ride for the love of two wheels, motorcyclists - ride for practicality, bikies - ride and dressup in costumes to make up for small penises