Why We Ride

Worth a view but it is not On any Sunday
I saw it last night at Franklin Mills Mall in north Philly. The theater was packed and there were a lot of familiar faces. The cinematography was excellent - breathtaking shots! The message was great, but in my honest opinion it got a bit preachy for me. It included many facets of the motorcycle culture including how motorcycling started and the culture developed over the years. There were parts on street biking, dirt biking, short tracks, road racing, motocross, motoGP and cruisers. I felt there was a large focus on motorcycle riding with the family. Also, there was really nothing about Baja, Rallye racing like Dakar, and very little on dual sporting. I have a feeling that there were trying to go a different route than On Any Sunday and Dust to Glory (two of my favorite movies).

Go see it - or buy the DVD and share it with friends.

Just watch the trailer
Watch the trailer. Now imagine an hour and a half movie just like that. Thematic music in the background with some well known and not so well known motorcyclists giving sound bites about why they love riding. There's an interesting historical segment, and a couple racing segments, but I feel the movie should have been shorter, or gone more in depth into the hundreds of motorcycle subcultures. Could have been better, but overall it's ok.

Well done documentary on the passions that drive what are otherwise normal / average people to excel in things on two wheels!
A movie that chronicles the passion of people who "have the bug" for riding motorcycles. The people interviewed exude the sort of passion that only people who have toiled at successful start-ups have experienced. This movie makes it clear that success and doing something well as as much to do with passion and desire as it does skill....the two things work together and build on each other.

I have the bug.....I love to ride. But even my wife who isn't a rider and isn't at all drawn to the experience and exposure to the elements found the movie very entertaining. She felt the enthusiasm and excitement that drive the various riders shown to be able to perform to the level they did. The cool thing was that many of them seemed like pretty regular people, as regular and you and me.....but they had a passion ignited by their connection to their experiences on a their motorcycle.

The movie was quite broad in it's treatment of the various kinds of...

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