The Vintagent Selects: the Wall of Death
https://vimeo.com/32493819
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
THE WALL OF DEATH (2012)
Run Time: 14:07
A Film By: Benedict Campbell
Score: Solebay Music
Cast: The Ken Fox Troupe Wall Of Death
FILM MAKERS
‘I am passionate about the image and therefore I will use every means available to me to create the image...’ – Benedict Campbell
With 20+ years experience in advertising as a photographer and digital artist, Benedict Campbell has produced images for many of the worlds leading brands. He is renown for combining his skills as photographer and digital illustrator to create bold and often hyper-real images.
As a visual chameleon, Benedict is able to draw from a wide range of styles. From the muted and tonal simplicity of a well-lit photograph, to the lush, sensual gloss of a computer generated image, the end product is guaranteed to leave an imprint on the mind.
SUMMARY
“I believe that I’m one of the few lucky people on earth that do what they want to do,” - Ken Fox
Shortlisted for the best documentary in 2012 Vimeo Awards. The Wall Of Death follows the last remaining traditional family of daredevil wall riders, The Ken Fox Troupe, who continue to travel Europe and the British Isles bringing a 100 year tradition to audiences young and old. Benedict Campbell first saw the show as a small boy and the film which he wanted to make for some time, beautifully captures the emotion and a connection to the riders that is contagious.
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The Vintagent Trailers: Outcast Forever
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/outcastforever/164028871
The Vintagent Trailers: A preview of our favorite feature films out there.
OUTCAST FOREVER (2016)
Run Time: 1:21:00
A film by: DeVaughn Hughson
FILM MAKERS
As a filmmaker my goal is to tell stories that move the viewer in unexpected ways. I am personally drawn to stories that present bigger then life characters and then dig deeper into the persona. These stylistic choices can be found in the Outcast story where we reveal layers of complicated identities and a complex surrogate family structure.
SUMMARY
In 1969 a group of rebellious black bikers decided that freedom, non conformity and brotherhood were not exclusive to whites only. At the time (and still today) blacks were not permitted to join white outlaw biker clubs, so out of necessity the Outcast M.C. was born.
This documentary is an in depth look into their world and the unapologetic lifestyle they live. Filmed over the course of six years, Outcast Forever is a raw visual exploration that rips through the mystique and presents a unfiltered experience of a subculture within a subculture.
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The Vintagent Trailers: Oil In The Blood
https://vimeo.com/316605817
The Vintagent Trailers: A preview of our favorite feature films out there.
OIL IN THE BLOOD (2019)
Run Time: 2:00:00
Producer: Lucy Selwood
Director: Gareth Maxwell Roberts
Cinematography: Josh Allen, Matt Broad, Andrew David Watson
Production Manager: Sophie Haines
Editor: David Hartley
Logistics Support & Therapist: Megane Huez
Sound: Nick Walker
Cast: Max Hazan, Paul d'Orleans, Roland Sands, and more.
FILM MAKERS
‘Oil in the Blood’ is a documentary feature film on the contemporary custom motorcycle culture. The film is directed by life-long biker Gareth Maxwell Roberts and produced by Lucy Selwood.
SUMMARY
The philosophy of individualism is embedded in motorcycling. The desire to be different and unique, is at the root of the motorcyclist’s imagination. Modifying, customising, and changing bikes is at the very heart of the biker. Custom motorcycle culture has experienced a renaissance in recent years, and what was once a niche subculture now bears a significant influence on the international mainstream motorcycle industry.
Over the last three years, Gareth and Lucy have interviewed nearly three hundred bike builders, riders, journalists, artists and racers; the very heartbeat of this culture. They’ve communed with like-minded souls in Britain, Europe, Japan, Australia, The Far East, Africa and the US. They’ve spoken to major manufactures Harley Davidson, Yamaha, Royal Enfield, Ducati and BMW.
Lucy and Gareth have filmed at both The Bike Shed London and Paris, The Malle Mile, Wheels & Waves in Biarritz, The Trip Out, The Brooklyn Invitational, The Distinguished Gentlemans Ride in London and New York, Throttle Roll in Sydney, Indian Larry’s Block Party, Dirt Quake, Snowquake, The Malle Mile and The Trip Out in rural England, The One Moto Show in Portland, Mama Tried in Milwaukee, Mooneyes in Tokyo, and The Handbuilt Show in Austin.
The film-makers filmed a collaboration between Harley Davidson and maverick bike builders El Solitario in the Sahara, flat track racing in dusty bowls and indoor arenas, ice racing in Wisconsin and in the Alps, and the American Wall of Death in the Texas sun. They’ve shot dozens of cool custom bikes being ridden through the urban streets, the twisting mountain roads, through the rolling green countryside and the scorched flat plains. They’ve filmed choppers, café-racers, flattrackers, sprint bikes, electrics, old school specials and urban brats, hundred-thousand dollar pristine beauties and five hundred buck rippers.
This is not a film about motorcycles, it’s about motorcycle people.
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The Vintagent Trailers: Hellbound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbipngdTPXQ
The Vintagent Trailers: A preview of our favorite feature films out there.
Hellbound (2018)
Run Time: 1:08:00
Producer: Ben Winston
Director: Ben Winston
Writer: Ben Winston
Cast: Kyle Colton, Jon Meeks, Trudy Walker, Paige Barlow
FILM MAKERS
Ben Winston's feature film debut about two reckless bikers on a provocative, nightmarish journey through the mountains. Shot entirely on black and white 16mm film. It invokes the aesthetic of the classic films of the 1970s.
SUMMARY
A preview to my new film Hellbound. All shot on black and white 16mm film. I cant afford true telecine at the moment so here is some rough footage that I projected on the wall and shot with a video camera.
I knew I wanted to make a black and white film from the get go. I thought about what subject matter would best suit this medium and decided old choppers and naked witches was the only option.
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The Vintagent Classics: Taken For A Ride
https://vimeo.com/305122627
The Vintagent Classics: The films that inspired us.
TAKEN FOR A RIDE (1923)
Run Time: 1 minute 45 sec.
Director: Robert 'Bobby' Tansey (?)
Key Cast: Easter Walters, Bob Tansey, 1922 Excelsior-Henderson with sidecar!
FILM MAKERS
Bob Tansey had a long career in films starting around 1922, when this film was made. He initially made a go of directing comedy films like this one, but found better success writing for films in the 1930s, mostly B-Westerns with Tex Ritter. Tansey's first films ca.1922/3 are obscure today, and little is known about 'Taken For a Ride'.
SUMMARY
This charming short features three characters: presumed director Robert 'Bobby' Tansey, motorcycle stuntwoman Easter Walters, and a 1922 Excelsior-Henderson with a sidecar. These two joyriders encounter the motorcycle after bursting out of a store, and take it for a ride...but are in turn 'taken for a ride' by the bike with a mind of its own. Easter Walters shows her obvious skill handling a sidecar outfit, aviating the wheel and performing tidy u-turn skids, while Tansey's antics counterpoint her riding skill in this silent short film.
Motorcycles were primarily used for their agility and kinetic energy in early films, long before they acquired the menace of the 'Dark Rider' syndrome after WW2. Comics like Tansey and Buster Keaton found two (or three) wheels ideal for fast-moving stunts, and Easter Walters rode in several films, her unexpected skills at handling a big motorcycle utilized as its own thrill factor. See our article 'The Silent Types' for more.
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The Vintagent Selects: Catalina Grand Prix: A Love Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCisEq9cbzM&t=2s
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
CATALINA GRAND PRIX: A LOVE STORY (2011)
Run Time: 18:05
A Film By: Toast
Cast: Rick Carmody & Elsie
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From an interview for the Motorcycle Film Festival (2013)
I always try to make film more sensory by using texture, motion and focus as layers. A film shouldn’t just be just a window that you look through, but light and shadow veils that you can move through… Kind of like the difference between driving a car past a dirt field with the windows rolled up versus being on a motorcycle- then you can smell that it’s actually a strawberry patch!
Rhythm is a valuable tool. Songs are for story telling. I do a lot of in-camera editing. Having a song in my head helps me keep a sense of pace. Cutting to music in the edit room is like collaborating with an old friend!
I enjoy Super 8 for it’s graininess. It’s also a small format that is portable. You know, hidden easily if you have to throw it in your backpack and take off on your bike! A lot of additional personality comes out of the images by altering the speed, double exposing or by making adjustments in the processing.
Hand-developing can be a great tool for the right project. The great thing about film is that there are so many steps along the way during which you can add flavor to the recipe!
SUMMARY
In December 2010, the Catalina Grand Prix was held on a California Island for the first time in over 50 years. Top motorcycle racers from around the world were invited to compete. Although road racer RICK CARMODY had never lined up to compete in motocross, he knew he wanted to participate in this historic event; ideally on a vintage bike. He got the chance when he met ELSIE, a 1974 Honda Elsinore CR125M. Together they took on the challenge: destined for either Glory or Heartbreak...
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The Vintagent Selects: Shutter Speed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJJkBc8dv84&feature=emb_title
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
SHUTTER SPEED (2011)
Run Time: 7:00
Producer: The Selvedge Yard
A Film By: Toast
Cast: Stacie B. London
FILM MAKERS
From an interview for the Motorcycle Film Festival
I always try to make film more sensory by using texture, motion and focus as layers. A film shouldn't just be just a window that you look through, but light and shadow veils that you can move through... Kind of like the difference between driving a car past a dirt field with the windows rolled up versus being on a motorcycle- then you can smell that it's actually a strawberry patch!
Rhythm is a valuable tool. Songs are for story telling. I do a lot of in-camera editing. Having a song in my head helps me keep a sense of pace. Cutting to music in the edit room is like collaborating with an old friend!
I enjoy Super 8 for it's graininess. It's also a small format that is portable. You know, hidden easily if you have to throw it in your backpack and take off on your bike! A lot of additional personality comes out of the images by altering the speed, double exposing or by making adjustments in the processing.
Hand-developing can be a great tool for the right project. The great thing about film is that there are so many steps along the way during which you can add flavor to the recipe!
SUMMARY
The Selvedge Yard presents: a film by Toast. Featuring photographer Scott Pommier and East Side Moto Babe Stacie London. This behind-the-scenes short was commissioned to accompany an exhibition of photographs by Scott Pommier in March 2011. Shot with a Minolta XL601 in Black & White Tri-X and Velvia color Super 8. Music by Makkusu Ensemble, Paper Tulips, Jake LaBotz and Jimbo Goodall.
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The Vintagent Selects: Assembling A Black Shadow 1/12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHit7WU95Ik
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
ASSEMBLING A BLACK SHADOW 1/12 (2018)
Run Time: 4:06
A Film By: Tom Grigat
Music: "Parzival" from William Rosati
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Scale modelling, Stopmotion, 3D-Animation and Music-Video-Experiments
SUMMARY
A short stop motion story of a little plastic guy who builds his own motorcycle in my man cave: The Vincent Black Shadow from Revell in scale 1/12. I had the chance to film his attempts of getting a cool bike. His girlfriend eventually took some pictures of the finished motorcycle. Apparently some magical invisible hands were involved... The figures are mannequins from Body Kun The colors are from Alclad II (black, chrome, alu, coatings) Some cylindrical details are replaced by rods and tubes from Albion Alloys (f.e. the exhaust system, the wheel spokes, suspension rods, brake linkage).
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The Vintagent Selects: Isle of Man TT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMqESWtvzsU
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
ISLE OF MAN TT (2018)
Run Time: 18:21
Director: Chris Kippenberger
FILM MAKERS
Studio Kippenberger assembles the worlds leading automotive filmmakers to bring us Isle Of Man TT.
SUMMARY
A tribute film to all the fallen heros of the Isle of Man TT race since 1907. A look at what drew them to the race and kept them there.
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The Vintagent Selects: The MC Collection Of Stockholm // Mecum Las Vegas Motorcycles 2019
https://youtu.be/kvvA1-2vRSg
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
THE MC COLLECTION OF STOCKHOLM (2018)
Run Time: 24:29
Producer: Mecums Auctions
Key Cast: Christer R. Christensson, Paul d'Orleans
FILM MAKERS
For more than 50 years, Christer R. Christensson has been collecting motorcycles, resulting in a world-renowned collection that is both extensive and representative of the very best of the best when it comes to motorcycle design and technology.
SUMMARY
Working alongside his colleague, Ove Johansson, and his highly skilled team of restorers, Christensson has built the MC Collection of Stockholm into a more than 400-motorcycle presentation that establishes the motorcycle not merely as a machine, but as a contemporary work of art and mechanical sculpture
When the Las Vegas auction rolls around this January, one thing’s for certain: motorcycle enthusiasts will have a rare opportunity to take home a piece of this unique and renowned collection with 238 motorcycles from the MC Collection of Stockholm set to be offered on Friday, January 26.
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To view more information and photo of the collection, click HERE.
The Vintagent Classics: The Loveless
https://vimeo.com/304728586
The Vintagent Classics: The films that inspired us.
THE LOVELESS (1981)
Run Time: 1:22:00
Director: Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery
Writer: Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery
Key Cast: Willem Dafoe, J. Don Ferguson, Robert Gordon
FILM MAKERS
THE LOVELESS: WAY BEYOND TORN UP
‘The Loveless’ remains much as its title suggests – unloved and unknown outside a core few who consider it an amazing motorcycle film. The first-time feature for Kathryn Bigelow, who went on to earn two directing Oscars for her meditations on Iraq (Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), The Loveless bombed at theaters when released in 1981, but showcased Bigelow’s genius twenty years before the Academy realized who they were dealing with.
Ms Bigelow, who co-directed with Monty Montgomery, had clearly studied Kenneth Anger shorts during her film school days, as The Loveless is a visual homage to Anger’s uncanny eye; he understood better than anyone at time - and schooled generations of filmmakers and ad men – that the cine-camera has the power to transform any object into an Icon. While Scorpio Rising brewed up a mind-altered gay/Satanic/biker bacchanal (fueled by the first explicit use of powdered amphetamine in a biker film), Anger’s raw honesty (these were his gay biker buddies in real life) is locked and loaded in Bigelow’s hands for a shotgun blast at Happy Days (the #1 TV show at that time) and Reagan-era lobotonostalgia.
SUMMARY
The storyline is a Southern highway collision of Easy Rider with the Wild One, upping the ante on both films with talk of jailhouse ‘joybangs’, and darkly Faulknerian family drama. The film opens with Willem Dafoe as Vance, in his first big screen role (after being fired from Heaven’s Gate!), an intimidating, greasy, and ultrasexy biker sleeping like Satan in the wilderness, right beside his Panhead. ‘I wasn’t going to be no man’s friend today’, the movie begins, and he shortly proves his point when encountering the mythic Thunderbird from American Graffiti - with, appropriately, a flat tire – complete with a round-heeled beauty waiting for a Real Man to rescue her. Vance is a real man all right, and sees through George Lucas’ cliché script, taking his payment from the Thunderbird goddess in a way we don’t expect.
Vance’s gang soon appears, complaining that a primary chain has snapped; they need to make repairs, so are stuck in a no-name truck-stop town in Florida, en route to Daytona for the bike races. We learn the gang is recently sprung from prison, and tension quickly builds with the locals, echoed by Robert Gordon’s smokin’ Rockabilly soundtrack, as he plays himself, sort of, as Davis, well amped on ‘vitamins’ poured – in a quote from Scorpio Rising – from a salt shaker. The dialogue is as curt and as stylized as the art direction, loaded with Americana and period quotations; yes, you’re in 1962 America … where lynch-mobs cool off with a Coke and a smile.
Vance is soon distracted by a sexy little vixen in a red Corvette, the seriously underage Telena (Marin Kanter, next seen in The Fabulous Stains), who reveals the car as a guilt-gift from her father (J.Don Fergurson as the deliriously despicable Tarver). When Vance meets Telena, the film explodes with anal sex, shotgun blasts, incest, boys with pink underpants, murder, drag races, strippers, and suicide.
Somehow, Bigelow managed to keep these B-movie Bikesploitation plot points firmly steered towards the Art House, while the whole wicked machine flew right over the heads of critics and unsuspecting viewers alike. It still does. The Loveless is triple-clever, deserving multiple viewings to savor the spare dialogue, gorgeous visuals, amazingly hot Willem Dafoe, and superb soundtrack. Watching it, you’ll feel just like Sportster Debbie after a drunk trucker goes down on her – unwashed and nasty, but knowing it was good. - Paul d'Orleans
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The Vintagent Selects: The Salt Flats - Eleven Ninety Eight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXnKrc11aKM&t=301s
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
THE SALT FLATS - ELEVEN NINETY EIGHT (2018)
Run Time: 16:19
A Film By: Josh Allen
Key Cast: Max Hazan, Gerald 'Gerry' Harrison
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Independent filmmaker Josh Allen embarked on a journey to Bonneville Speedway to capture the events as they unfolded. The story follows Max Hazan and Gerald 'Gerry' Harrison as they embark on their first pilgrimage to the automotive destination outside Salt Lake City Utah.
SUMMARY
Bonneville Salt Flats, it’s tough to say something that hasn’t been said about this place by someone at some point in time. It’s usually uttered in the same sentence as “I’d love to...” or “I wish I could” it’s such an iconic place that has never been far from the topic of discussion in an excitable conversation between a gathering of motoring enthusiasts. With that in mind we didn’t even try to say something new, I just set about documenting the experience that two guys had. Two friends fulfilling a life long ambition to set foot on the Salt at Bonneville speedway. They also took a Ducati 1198 with them, just to you know, have a go and I made a film about it. What better setting than the final event of the year, the stage was set, the conditions the best in years. With one man driving a van with the bike over from Los Angeles, the other leaving wife and child behind in Glasgow. Sometimes you’ve just got to ask yourself why not?
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The Vintagent Selects: 2018 Motorcycle Cannonball
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
2018 MOTORCYCLE CANNONBALL (2018)
Run Time: 59:38
A video by: Jerami Johnson
FILM MAKERS
Jerami Johnson has years of experience filming eccentric motorcycle people, starting with two years of shooting 'Monster Garage' with Jesse James. He's also a specialist in skate and music videos.
SUMMARY
Experience in one hour what 106 riders took 17 days to complete! '2018 Motorcycle Cannonball captures the most difficult antique motorcycle rally in the world, a bi-annual ride across the USA, from coast to coast, averaging 3600 miles over 17 miles. '2018 Motorcycle Cannonball' features riders navigating the backroads of America on pre-1929 vintage motorcycles, encountering rain, fatigue, breakdowns, and fires, all with good humor and sense of pleasure at tackling this tough ride.
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The Vintagent Classics: Once A Jolly Swagman
https://vimeo.com/299752402
The Vintagent Classics: The films that inspired us.
ONCE A JOLLY SWAGMAN aka MANIACS ON WHEELS (1949)
Run Time: 1:38:00
Producer: Ian Dalrymple
Director: Jack Lee
Writer: Montagu Slater (novel), William Rose (script)
Key Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Bill Owen
FILM MAKERS
The 1949 British film, Once A Jolly Swagman (released in the US later as Maniacs On Wheels) takes it's title from the first line of the Australian song "Waltzing Matilda", and is based on the 1946 novel by Montagu Slater. The film is one of the first to feature motorcycles as a central topic and to portray their riders as dark and complicated characters. Though it would definitely not be the last.
SUMMARY
"I must'a been daft letting you have that motorbike in the first place."
Set in 1937 London, A factory worker is fired from a reliable job and becomes a successful motorbike racer, until his wife threatens to leave him unless he comes to his senses.
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Watch the full film at Cine Meccanica
The Vintagent Selects: Hunt For The Wild - The Trans Euro Trail Adventure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX9-A3wSXY8&feature=youtu.be
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
Hunt for The Wild - The Trans Euro Trail Adventure (2018)
Run Time: 28:47
A film by: Greg Villalobos
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Having spent the best part of a year helping to build the Trans Euro Trail website and marketing media, I finally found time to actually go ride a small section of this 42,000km route. This film was made partly as promotion for the TET as well as a test and marketing for the newly released Adventure Spec clothing range. It was also quite a lot of fun!
Greg Villalobos is not only a filmmaker, but a BAFTA award-winning brand builder too. In 2004 Greg co-founded a digital agency in London, but since left London for North East Britain to help smaller organizations communicate their brands. As an outdoors and bike enthusiast, Greg tells stories through his experiences and the experiences of those around him.
SUMMARY
The Trans Euro Trail is a 38,000km dirt bike route through Europe. It traverses mountains, crosses rivers, descends gorges and generally winds its way through some of the wildest that Europe has to offer. It also goes through Holland and Belgium. With only one week on the dirt road, would Greg and his gang in the UK be able to find the wilderness they are hunting...?
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The Vintagent Selects: Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3QoKqEHS8s
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON ON OUTLAWS (2015)
Run Time: 5:07
Executive Producer: David Gerlach
Animator: Patrick Smith
Editor: Kevin Palmer
Audio Producer: Amy Drozdowska
FILM MAKERS
Blank on Blank is a production of Quoted Studios – a nonprofit, 501 (c)(3) content studio based in Brooklyn. Quoted is dedicated to using animated journalism to preserve and re-imagine the American interview. Read about the blank on blank production team, watch more episodes, and make a donation on their website.
SUMMARY
“I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.” - Hunter S. Thompson in 1967
As told to Studs Terkel (http://studsterkel.org)
Hear more from this rare interview: http://blankonblank.org/hunter-thompson
In the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson spent more than a year living and drinking with members of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club, riding up and down the California coast. What he saw alongside this group of renegades on Harleys, these hairy outlaws who rampaged and faced charges of attempted murder, assault and battery, and destruction of property along the way--all of this became the heart of Thompson’s first book: Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga. Shortly after the book came out, Thompson sat down for a radio interview with the one and only Studs Terkel.
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The Vintagent Selects: Stories Of Bike: Origins
https://youtu.be/UT5kGa0Q7No
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
STORIES OF BIKE: ORIGINS (2013)
Run Time: 4:57
A Film By: Cam Elkins
Key Cast: Brad Coles
FILM MAKERS
This whole thing started, as most personal projects start I suppose, out of frustration. Back in 2012, I had just seen two fantastic short films “Solus” by Lossa Engineering and “Chabott Engineering (Shinya Kimura)” by Henrik Hansen and was simultaneously blown away how well these films were made and frustrated that there weren’t more like them.
Soon after, I found the occasional short bike film. But they tended to be much the same. About a builder, working with his hands and why he or she builds and rides the bikes they do. I could never find a video that went further back than that. I wanted to hear their story that got them there. – Cam Elkins
SUMMARY
It's the little decisions we make and influences of history along the way that determine who we are, what we do and what we create.
For this owner of a custom 1974 Honda CB360 cafe racer / flattracker, incorporating various elements from his own dirt bike and family history of speedway racing resulted in a build of the perfect ride.
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The Vintagent Selects: Stories Of Bike: Peak Hour
https://youtu.be/2cLhOOcQISc
The Vintagent Selects: A collection of our favorite films by artists around the world.
STORIES OF BIKE: PEAK HOUR (A HONDA CB125 STORY) (2013)
Run Time: 4:34
A Film By: Cam Elkins
Key Cast: Jordan Kightly
FILM MAKERS
This whole thing started, as most personal projects start I suppose, out of frustration. Back in 2012, I had just seen two fantastic short films “Solus” by Lossa Engineering and “Chabott Engineering (Shinya Kimura)” by Henrik Hansen and was simultaneously blown away how well these films were made and frustrated that there weren’t more like them.
Soon after, I found the occasional short bike film. But they tended to be much the same. About a builder, working with his hands and why he or she builds and rides the bikes they do. I could never find a video that went further back than that. I wanted to hear their story that got them there. – Cam Elkins
SUMMARY
The thought of a commute to the workplace for most people would be met with a mild grinding of teeth and sneer or two. Even for most motorcyclists, it's not a pleasant experience dealing with traffic an hour that brings the worst out in people. But one man's peak hour traffic is another man's bliss. For this Honda CB125 owner, peak hour is pure, adrenaline spiked, fun.
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