Someone posted this excellent vid on the KTM forum and I thought I'd share it. A short film about scrambling from the 1960's. The picture quality is superb, it could have been shot yesterday. Not as fast as today's moto-crossers of course, but still good and no body armour in sight. A wooly jumper is all you need. Who knew Greeves scramblers could wheelie so well. I want one. Enjoy:
superb, i had a pursang from that period, the BiL still has his old mans old huski semi auto he used to race back in the day.
And many Austin A35's. My Dad bought one new. It was awful, the most unreliable car he ever had. He never bought a new car again. What he should have done was cut it in half and turn it into a trailer for scrambler bikes.
Eamonn Andrews is just reading the commentary from a script - he has no idea what he's talking about, but fortunately it's quite a good script. Severely disabled people were rarely portrayed on screen in those days. This film, showing Derry Preston Cobb realistically and describing his considerable achievements, was an honourable exception.
Yes, I was quite struck by that. There was a documentary there waiting to be made. And his motorised wheelchair was worthy of a vid in its own right. A fascinating looking contraption and a fascinating man.
Nice video thanks. My father took me to a few scramble meetings during the 1960s, we had a great day out at all of them. Dad had a 1939 Velocette MAC road bike, but my uncle had a 250 Greeves for a while. Great bike, happy days.
A similar motorised wheelchair figures in Lady Chatterley's Lover. And that would be worthy of a video.
I couldn't help but notice the wall full of topless babe's behind the two guys putting their bike together...I believe that kind of thing is frowned upon these days..
Lewd and licentious times the 1960's. Thank goodness we don't have to put up with that sort of thing nowadays.
What you want brakes for, they only slow you down Any one remember or has any footage of scrambling at Pen-y-Banc farm near Swansea. It was televised from there a few times.
