59 Club UK Film Ton Up Boys

[@cavanmcarthy9107]

I was there it is my wife combing her hair at 1.32 in front of my AJS31csr,the chap sat behind was on an ariel square four and chair.I am still riding about 9000 miles a year here and abroad at 80.Biking keeps you fit and young.Great days

[@TheVaughan5]

You're so right. As I approach my mid 60's I've no intention of giving up bikes. There's no doubt it keeps you young and fit, something non bikers simply don't understand and never will - lol Taking up biking was the best decision I ever made in my not so short life!

[@backstreetzero2019]

Legend. Ride safe 👍

[@lanceandmelanierogers6255]

Much love and respect

[@munta1967]

good on you :) I agree 100% I am 54 yrs and have been riding bikes since 1988 and still love going abroad/touring around the UK, the body may age but the mind is still young, i hope to be still doing the miles when i am 80yrs..ride safe and have fun!! hope you see a lot more years of riding :D i can afford to retire in feb 2022, so my bike touring will be my life, deffo going to take off and enjoy myself for a few months at a time :) suppose, i will have to return home to see the family and dogs lol :)

[@sunrisesunset6004]

Wonderful. A life well lived.

[@jimjoelliejack]

What a lovely film, nice to see comments from people who were actually there. I’m 60 and still riding every day. Those days ago were great.

[@robleary3353]

Love these old clips of days gone by. My dear old Dad was a biker in the fifties, he got me hooked on old British bikes. (Bought an old knackered BSA Bantam in the eighties as a 17 yr old and restored it with him). I still have it today...... 🙂

[@MHLivestreams]

I bet you only paid about 50 quid! my mate bought a really nice D14 for £300 in 1986. I wish I could have been there in the 50's, then again, not really, would be really quite old now haha. Have a great day.

[@robleary3353]

@@MHLivestreams 80 quid, non runner, rolled it down hill day we got it just for fun and as I got to driveway the front wheel bearing collasped!... 🤣 Did a basic restoration with my Dad. He had to modify an old carb from a lawn mower to run it while we looked for the proper one!. No internet back then so we had to trawl swap meets and small adds!.... In pieces for proper restoration in memory of Dad.

[@johndillon5290]

Great times and communal spirit. Back then, people appreciated simple luxuries.

[@Sorarse]

Never a member of the 59 club, but met Father Bill when he moved parish to Dover, Kent, and formed the 69 club in 1969. Wonderful character and sadly missed.

[@ianrichards4907]

69 club dover, was a member back then, remember the church services with bikes in the church !!!!

[@V4vendettaist]

Just absolutely superb. I ride a 60s Norton now and was a child in '60s Britain, so this takes me back to when I was very small. Every kid in the movie wanted a motorbike. Now every kid in the country wants an Iphone. Just ain't the same.

[@dirkbruere]

I got a bike early 70s, a Honda. Another British success story - for the Japanese. The British disease of complacency, bad management and greed

[@MrBbogucki]

Sad ain't it mate...

[@robinaxeman]

I still have my 59 patch.I was a copper in Marylebone and joined the 59 Club at Paddington Green when Father Bill moved there. It was a great group and even had its own breakdown van to pick you up and bring you home.

Wasn't he the original 'rocking vicar'?

[@MrBluoct]

robinaxeman 🤘

@Will Richards Hi Will. Yes..... amazing how the one you mention is currently screaming its head off about continuing to dominate and control us..... It's definitely due to self-destruct any time soon now - Thank God! A politician with spine? Very rare - too many getting back-handers. But I think that - at long last - they are starting to realise the revolt and the sheer anger they have created in us. Take heart - politicians can be replaced and governments can be overthrown. PC ??? Isn't Freedom of Speech an integral part of Democracy??? Glad you can see how things were before the current crap - much, MUCH better..... It really was the GREATEST EVER time to be a teenager.

[@MHLivestreams]

that's great! i've downloaded an original logo, so might try to embroider my own, have a nice day, fella.

[@AlcyoneSong]

Cool!

[@rosemarydudley9954]

Great video. Oh boy, we REALLY knew how to enjoy ourselves "back then". 59 Club and The Ace Cafe. Work hard all week, then ... whoopy, get the bikes out for the weekend.

[@rocket3man]

Fantastic film of the 59 club and the positiveness that centred around it.

[@johngregg4144]

thats when life was worth living

[@tonynesbit9673]

Love this narrator's voice,it was the voice of my youth

[@thevelointhevale1132]

When England was still English! The most beautiful times of all ... glad I got to live them ...

[@spchood]

Me too .. So fortunate to live my life from the late 50's

[@johnsmith-xr1uh]

Now your just the dumping ground of the world

[@dirkbruere]

I was there, then, and I much prefer now

[@EngineTuning]

@@dirkbruere You have got to be effing joking!!!! Breathing freely - disallowed Fraternisation - disallowed Mobility - restricted Untested molecules - effectively forced into one's bloodstream At least back then, a person could fight for a future. What future for our kids? ... and yet you prefer now????? Dirk, let me tell you :- "You are frightening".

[@dirkbruere]

@@EngineTuning I was there. I am 68 now and I have a good memory of what it was like. That included kids with braces on their legs because of polio, no indoor plumbing, teachers beating kids and anyone who was in the slightest way different being picked on. And let's not forget the lead water pipes etc

[@spib65]

Great film,..Father Shergold surely one of the greatest unsung hero's in Britain, and I've only ever read about him and been told about him and the 59 club. Great upload!

[@ADAM00717]

The good ol days before internet and smart phones when men had real fun and adventure.

[@oddballhotrods5183]

i was a member of the 59 club in hackney london in the 90s it even had a workshop with all the tools and a cafe

[@tomakafrankconlon3207]

@@Deetroiter Amazing, I know you.

[@R1Grandma]

This is brilliant as I was on the RAC/ACU Crystal Palace bit at 2.44 and it was my Sports Cub they used as demo. Still riding bikes and just changed from 5PW R1 to Fazer 8 after 10 glorious years. My son now has the R1 as I couldn't bear to sell it.Covered a total of 99,000 miles on two R1's and still enjoy my bikes as much as I did in the 60's xxx

[@glorious..--brit123]

Hi grandma you still riding from grandad biker

[@Corinthian44]

It was good to see and hear some of the positive aspects of motor cycle riders , generally , a good bunch , even today ! I've owned bikes for 62 years , including racing them in over seventy meetings , covering some twenty years.

[@allsearpw3829]

Yes 6 of us joined in 1966 and met Farther Shergold a real hero to a lot of young people . Great days on a bike . Hi to all who went to Christchurch youth club , Joye,s caf , The Minne diner and the Friar Tuck .👍👌

[@martynjames5963]

I volunteer in a museum fixing up old British bikes. Great to see some of the same ones ridden as daily rides.

[@Zerodghjj]

British motorcycles have always been cool.

[@cavanmcarthy9107]

I did not realise the film covered those biking days so well.I regularly went to the Ace,the busy bee at watford and Jacks hill on the A5.I also still have my membership card to the volunteer emergency service.Also won the slow race at this rally the year before on an Ariel Leader (naturally slow)Still have the Mole grips presented by Lord Montague.I still have the lovely wife 60 years later,but a newer bike.Great days growing up sixties.

[@thewatcher5271]

How Cool Was This! Great To See The Spirit Of The Dispatch Rider Alive & Well! Thank You.

[@bigharrykochenbauls4567]

That part with the orphanage was epicly ❤ warming

[@brit-in-czech]

From a time when England was still great. And still English. Those were the days, my friend. Those were the days !

[@tonynesbit9673]

Not any more mate unfortunately, I rarely go out now as there are so many twats out there.

[@ronnysterling7694]

Today you get pounded by Rebecca Lowe’s nonstop babble of lies and how “racism” won’t be tolerated in football blah blah blahhhhhh. Proper England has been erased.

[@geoffreycarson2311]

TRUE 😣😣😣😣IT'S FOREIGN NOW 😨😴g

[@Senna-xi1gr]

Brilliant cheers 👍🇬🇧. I am just about to have a blast over to the Lake District on mine today.

[@keetolister811]

April 21 2023 anybody still watching 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍

[@Team-fabulous]

A wonderful period in motorcycling

[@bovineknievel410]

A wonderful period in England

[@Team-fabulous]

@@bovineknievel410 not just England, we had our fair share of rockers here in Northern Ireland..

[@martinwall212]

Different times never to be seen again god bless them all None have them seem to have a pot to piss in but so happy

[@daveturner2056]

Life was simpler then.weekly wage packet on a Thursday, no direct debits, and lived for the weekend.Simple pleasures.Beer at 2/1d. (10p),a pint, petrol at 5/- (25p) a gallon in 1967.Wish those days were back again.

[@thejerseyj9422]

This Yank missed out on visiting England in the mid 70's. One of my greatest regrets. A couple of those sidecars should have been called "sidecoaches" ! Very cool video.

[@sandyshine6690]

👍I know and the two girls standing up dangerous with no helmets fun tho😎

[@garybrockwell2031]

Yes mate, it ain't no fun at the moment... Peace Love and FREEDOM brother 👍🇬🇧🆘✌️👍💗

[@eddieobrien1411]

Yes,but all I remember is leaking gaskets,blown fuses and faulty wiring...oh yes and terrible weather

[@porkscratchings5428]

My old man was a greasy ton up boy in the old days with his Bonneville giving it large saying he was toning up all the time, fast forward and his grandson now flys around on a derestricted Hayabusa clocking 200 mph top whack. The 87 year old rocker went out on the Hayabusa and said it was too lively and pokey and mentioned if he had this in his time back then, he’d be dead showing off but would have pulled all the birds and more lol

[@NYCZ31]

Kinda interesting that no matter the era everyone is fascinated at what is then considered “vintage”

[@paullewisc]

FANTASTIC....I was a member around 1968 when the club was in Paddington 1

[@daveturner2056]

Me too! Same time period.Think from memory the 59 opened on a Thursday and Saturday evenings.There was a cafe in the ground floor where you could get chips with ketchup.A few used to go to the Dudley Arms on the corner on club nights.Happy times!

[@wolfgangwind6918]

I,am so in love with this Video : - )

[@Messyification]

I used to live in St Mary's Parsonage (2006 - 8) purely by serendipity. I was very proud to live in the very heart of the 59 Club's humble roots - none of my housemates knew or cared unfortunately. It was hugely ironic when my bike got vandalised in the courtyard by the ex-con scum that now live in what were elms flats. Not in Father Bill's day...!

[@PC24800]

At 1:13, the legendary Peter Gray holding court with fellow Harley enthusiasts. He had "the other Harley shop" in Tarring Road, Worthing (Transatco Harley Davidson) and was attending the rally with a bike that we'd just finished building for a certain Dougie Barton of Caterham in Surrey, one of the concourse winners, a powder blue Duo-Glide. Then, I worked with Pete and had a 750cc harley, now 55 years later, I've just bought my own Duo-Glide!! These things happen in due course.

[@oc2phish07]

Great film. I joined back in 1968 and am still a part of this great club. I lived very close to The 59 Club when it was at Paddington and then followed it back to Hackney and later, Plaistow. I still live near Wembley and The Ace Café so get to go to the club's set-up there too.

[@marydarling1212]

I lived across Harrow Rd,then ito St Mary's terrace 5 mins from the club,i even dated 2or 3 members of the club in the sixties,had a great time then.

[@JamesNickersonThePhotoShopGuru]

Awesome 👏 💕🙏🏻 thank you for the memories 🙏🏻❤️

[@rrrrockin]

wow this is cool ,,what a great vid ,,im into older vintage stuff and this vid is a treat ,,cheers ..

[@Nothimfrr]

Hope they all are doing great in their life

[@dodgeboy9052]

Bring back the Norton' Dominator .. the Triumph Bonneville and the famous BSA. Gold Star ... me the caf'e racer 1962---1967 in 1968 I Emigrated to Sydney Australia ...left everything behind...Then in 2006 .couldn't resist I had a Ducati. 750 Super Sport , last of. the 750 ..to old now for a bike like that so sold it .....in 2024 I will be 80...the Glory days of the British Motor Bike ...

[@Aerotoski]

Amazing video, greetings from Mexico. Love cafe racer

[@jereerej]

Good to see The Reverend. I'm not into Religion but this man was into Human Being :)

[@tyrssen1]

Not the bashing I expected ... Thank You!

[@RobertHatfull-df4ch]

My freinds father just passed recently he would tell me about the ton up boys in the 50s and 60s he had a brough cafe racer and a Vincent cafe racer but started out on nortons and bsa bikes it seemed a simpler time back then rip Albert ralph .

[@96BxelA]

Awesome, Thanks for sharing!

[@icemonAesDana]

thanks for sharing....our roots

[@wolfgangwind6918]

Our roots ! I,m born in 64 since 40 years i drive 2 wheels , most classic style , today a W 650 + Zephyr 1100 , in nice weather i wear my old Leather Jacket same age as me ( sorry for my english )

[@AlcyoneSong]

I love the idea of the 59 club

[@ldnshabba]

glad you enjoyed it , i love it , since i uploaded i just keep on watching it

[@brianperry]

The exuberance of youth, We drank copious amounts of 'Cola Cola' and 'frothy Coffee' at the various Transport Cafes that dotted the countryside at that time. Smoked 'Capstan Full Strength' and/or 'Roll ups' ..Drugs were not at the epidemic scale that they are now...It was a great time to have ones youth..

[@mattcollier5957]

Great days, great bikes, this is when England was England

[@jockd7]

Talk like that will get you labelled a racist...even although you are 100 % correct...

[@mattcollier5957]

Think whatever they like, call me what you want, dont give a shit, you know im right

[@เพลงพิณสกลนคร]

Still got my rose tinted glasses England great country except for the people just saying retired Thailand just saying

[@finjay21fj]

That was amazing! Did the Mods do any of that? They just fought and swore, but the Tons Ups did amazing things. Even today in Sheffield, England the Hell's Angels run a Teddy Bear Convoy for dying children in hospices there y:-) love to them all 🏆🥇🏁❤️

[@peterburn1587]

What a great film thanks

[@romanr.3827]

No cellphones (electronic leashes.) No overwhelming police presence. No billboards. Not a fast food joint in sight. I was born in the wrong generation.

[@paharithrottle4110]

I also feel the same bro cellphones and modern technology is ruining the humanity

[@rauledmundoarestegui6549]

Ever old time better best !!

[@fintonmainz7845]

The twins are at it again.

[@wololo4761]

What's wrong with a cheeky McDonald's?

[@Whitejesselink]

Now London is minority White.

[@ericgarland7330]

my first look at cafe racers had a 883 to hard of a ride ..a friend had me ride his honda cb 550 an man im hoooooked just started to look around for a project myself..most of all thanks for the vids cool rides

[@vikingdrummer9140]

we are here 4 a good time not a long time nuff said

[@davidharrison6615]

amazing time but the death rate was shocking . really shocking . rip all who died .

[@andrewdods2236]

David Harrison How high? What do you know? Figures? I read they often hit the Ton helmetless. I’ve done the Ton many times, but always helmeted .... :-/

[@Messyification]

I lived in the St. Mary’s of Eastwick rectory for a few years… a very different place then to the one in this film but keeping my 76’ Bonnie in the yard was at least a little nostalgic.

[@ardathbey8649]

"Just for kicks, I ride on through the night. My bird hangs on in fright, as I do a ton for kicks!"

..... and I've still got the record..... you know, those black circular things that go round at 45 rpm..... Still plays good too!

[@simontemplar1]

I was young, I was fresh faced, I rode my A10 hard and fast, in the blink of an eye it disappeared...............live your young lives fast and furious my friends and worry about the consequences later!

[@Nooziterp1]

So what's changed in 50 years? There are still the genuine motorcycling enthusiasts and the speed is everything, weaving in and out of traffic, won't live for long riders. The only thing that has changed are the technology, both in bikes and clothing. Plus you don't see sidecars any more.

[@Pete-eh8yo]

My exfather in law was a ton up boy in the 50s, rode a BSA DBD34 😎😎😎😎

[@Johnrockerldn]

Hey Dave, they just played this on Talking Pictures.

[@ldnshabba]

thanks Spib65, its such a great clip isnt it :)

[@andrewdods2236]

Gold !! Cheers :-)

[@yogiguitar1]

ha ha i was born in 1962 in hackney mare street! thats my town ! they knocked down the mothers hospital sadly............

[@davidsiracuse6672]

I had Triumphs growing up in the 80s. Back then you could pick up a decent Triumph or BSA for 1,000 $ I bought my first Triumph Bonneville for 700 $ and I also traded a Pinto woodside station wagon for a running 69 Triumph. I wish I would have kept those bikes.

[@Strider9655]

In those days drivers had small cars and might toot if you filtered through traffic, these days they drive SUVs and try to kill you.

[@kevinruddy448]

I've got a trike and I love gliding slowly along bus lanes smiling at the envious 4weeled slobs 🚗jammed solid 😂

[@Fyodor48]

*Yres we were a Menace* and i wouldnt change a single minute of it, (apart from the time spent in hospital of course) ;-);-);-)

[@boomerhgt]

Brilliant stuff

[@paddingtonbear5172]

Ahhh , the good old days . When a kickstarter was normal , n 100mph was bloody quick . You rode a trident, norton or bsa rocket3 if you wanted lotsa speed

[@daveturner2056]

Or a Bonnie or a Trophy! I had a Tiger 100 500cc, think it was a 1961 read.

[@bigronvfr750]

Please correct me if I’m wrong but the Southampton club was Southampton and district mc and ted bishop was the chairman when I was there in 1978 he rode a Honda four/4 and was still riding it in his 90’s rip Ted

[@banjodog]

awesome video, time to take the Thruxton for a blat :)

[@andrewdods2236]

Nic Brindell 98 Thunderbird Sport here :-)

[@patrickrichard1966]

Ha les années 60 que le meilleur de notre vies !!👍👍

[@jaybenny7719]

The ton up boys we meant to be bike that could go over 100mph. Ton is 100 in older British slang.

[@freyatilly]

Very nice documentary.

[@SmokeRingsPipeDreams]

4:19 yum yum

[@johnjenks7812]

@Michael Moretti That makes me even more hard imagine a gummy of that🤤

[@yondaimehokage2281]

What a wholesome video =)

[@sicks6six]

Barry Gasgcoin on his Gold Star, I've just done a ton on the "new" coast road under the dip after the wilfs-wiffs factory . . . remeber that Robert. . .

[@coconuciferanuts339]

The good old days.These days the box of blood-donation handover would have taken another half-hour to find on computer, bar-codes etc + paperwork.

[@timpriddy349]

People being genuine.......a lost art now

[@spib65]

It certainly is,..and in colour too.

[@brucekirk5386]

COLOR

[@noelduggan72]

Good Stuff!!!!

[@Maryonpark]

A different, nicer time.

[@OshirukoVip]

めっちゃカッコいい

[@bansheebandithot350]

Apsalutley ace I should of been born back then 👍🏻

[@stevenlangdon-griffiths293]

Great video

[@bonnieba3687]

❤️♣️

[@sandyshine6690]

At 4.45 Pinky and Perky on the girls boots are cool love the old days 👍😎

[@MrTelboy1962]

1:15 was that the Black Widows Gang from 'Every Which Way But Loose'?

[@haroldvonschwartzenstien3581]

Being a menace! Now that's why I got a bike 🤣

[@skaboosh]

Super

[@adrianbird3163]

road in the 9 in the late 70s cool to look back

[@andrewdods2236]

Adrian Bird rode

[@TheBlackSheepBoy]

2:20 "the vintage models..." damn.

[@koosmotormuis]

I try to imagine, what the situation looks like as the blood transporter (8.10) crashes into the back of a stationary car....... Kind regards Kobus the Netherlands 😁👍👋

[@DanDruff66]

Anyone remember the 171 club in Openshaw Manchester in 1970 with The Rev Tony Lloyd?

[@derf9465]

What happened to side cars. So much fun.

[@Mister_Fancypants]

Cars got affordable.

[@uralbob1]

Still have mine!

[@PHILIPWATSON82]

Brilliant

[@faustibilbao6657]

Many films from ton-up, rockers in 50,s 60,s and even 21,s rockers in KZbin , but What happen whith 70,s and 80,s rockers-greasers- bikers ?

[@timslim3413]

Wish it was like that now

[@mallarddaduck4446]

I was thinking exactly the same thing 😔

[@ldnshabba]

Btw I uploaded it on here :)