When you're riding, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.

**MotoKai** · 01-22-2011, 08:50 PM

Was just watching the the Steve McQueen movie "Le Mans". While the movie is about racing, it was an awesome reminder of why we ride.

When you're racing (or riding), it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.

Michael Delaney: This isn't just a thousand to one shot. This is a professional bloodsport. And it can happen to you. And then it can happen to you again.
Lisa Belgetti: When people risk their lives, shouldn't it be for something very important?
Michael Delaney: Well, it better be.
Lisa Belgetti: But what is so important about driving faster than anyone else?
Michael Delaney: Lotta people go through life doing things badly. Racing's important to men who do it well. When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.

Le Mans (1971)
106 min, 23 June 1971 (USA)
Almost in breadth and depth of a documentary, this movie depicts an auto race during the 70s on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France

Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Harry Kleiner
Stars: Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch and Elga Andersen

**CrazyCarl** · 02-02-2011, 04:05 PM

Would like to see this. He was a student of Bruce Lee as well.

This link is to an old magazine article of Bruce describing Steve. Good reading and interesting insight into the man. Steve apparently invested in motorcycle production in Italy as well.

http://www.mcqueenonline.com/bruceleefeature.htm

CC

**MotoKai** · 02-04-2011, 03:51 AM

CC - Thanks for sharing this.
I wasn't aware of their special friendship. Interesting!

**Luis Carlos** · 02-12-2011, 10:56 PM

this video moved me, hope you like.

**jape** · 02-13-2011, 12:35 AM

Yeah, I liked it too, thanks. I try and find a bit of that every day.

**euphonius** · 02-13-2011, 08:51 AM

Dear Luis Carlos,

Many thanks for posting. Very powerful short film! It's definitely making the rounds of motorcycle forums around the world, as I've received several notices. It's so good the final image is forgivable. Given that I started riding at 52, it'll come as no surprise that I shed a tear or two (but I'm a sentimental bastard...).

Though this clip is a dramatization, it's based on a true story of a group of oldsters in Taichung, Taiwan, who decided retirement was not quite fulfilling enough and banded together for this circumnavigation of Taiwan. The story of the wife who died too young apparently is true. A few days ago someone posted links to some youku clips about a movie called Go Grandriders. The video quality made those clips almost unwatchable. But I've found another that's much, much better -- a trailer for the Go Grandriders film, which I'm assuming is a feature. Here's the clip in youtube, which, as always for mainland residents, will require a grannybuster (VPN, proxy tunnel, etc).

I'd love to see the full feature!

cheers