ON ANY TUESDAY; STEVE MCQUEEN'S HUSQVARNA THAT STARTED THE 2 STROKE REVOLUTION!

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@scottmaz4063 6 ай бұрын

Steve McQueen was a man's man. Rode bikes and raced cars. He did it all.

@jpesicka492 6 ай бұрын

Under the name Harvey Mushman too! He just wanted to ride with the boys.

@barrycuda3769 6 ай бұрын

And even invented and produced the first lightweight plastic racing bucket seat , by his plastics manufacturer Solar plastics .

@jpesicka492 6 ай бұрын

After finishing 10th in the Open Class of the Elsinore GP, Steve McQueen AKA Harvey Mushman (racing name) said one of the best motorcycle life quotes I’ve ever heard. He said, “Every time I look around and start thinking the world is all bad, I start seeing some people having a good time on motorcycles and it makes me take another look.” I believe Kaplan Cycles and the New England Motorcycle Museum would agree with that statement.

@KaplanCycles 6 ай бұрын

1000%❤❤❤❤❤!!!😊

@lukefish7562 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing. No bike I’d rather own. Amazing. 💪🏼😎🏍️💨

@RobertCHoweSr 6 ай бұрын

@lukefish7562 I would rather have the bike he flew I to the barbed wire in The Great Escape.

@cyclerider5652 6 ай бұрын

Gorgeous Husky! I had a 1973 250CR and it was one of the best times of my life. My riding buddy had one too. We were 14 and riding all over the place around our small country town. Wheelying down the street. No one cared and everybody waved at us. We were like local celebrities. We could ride to the store, lean the bikes on the side of the building and go in for a soda and a snack. Good times! Never lost that feeling and still love to ride.

@mr.b7156 6 ай бұрын

These days you wouldn't have a bike when you come out of the store.

@Bitterstone3849 6 ай бұрын

Knew an older guy who had one back in 71 / 72. Us kids were just starting out 13 yrs old on Honda CT-70s. That thing was like no bike we ever seen before. Later in a couple of yrs when we got real dirt bikes a riding friend bought that bike after the original owner sold it. That thing was a beast. 💪

@brianwills4398 6 ай бұрын

On any Tuesday 😅 I love it.. When I was in Jr High, my friends and I used to run home after school and watch on any Sunday every single day.

@booshkoosh7994 6 ай бұрын

Cool! On Any Sunday was definitely an inspiration to me. I remember when a friend of mine saw the movie and bought a 400 Cross to rebuild. This is what dirt biking is all about. Thanks for the video!

@danlloyd5315 6 ай бұрын

I wish we had a motorcycle museum in the UK like this. It looks amazing. You should be very proud

@VirtualGuth 6 ай бұрын

The actress Ann Margret also rode Triumphs back in the 60s. When she and McQueen were making The Cincinnati Kid together, he found out that the studio execs were giving her grief for riding motorcycles. So he told her to do what he did and ignore them. The world was such a different place back then.

@RobertCHoweSr 6 ай бұрын

I saw Robert Blake and Billy Grey at Indian Dunes. Middle of the week just punching around having some beer. Waaaasyy_y back in the 60s

@RobertCHoweSr 6 ай бұрын

And 70s

@roncoburn7771 6 ай бұрын

so clean Steve would be proud

@lawrencefoster5608 6 ай бұрын

Steve McQueen was born again not long before he died.

@1sir-onworld 6 ай бұрын

🐝🏁 True

@andya688 6 ай бұрын

So many fantastic bikes it's like bike heaven there! Just beautiful.

@KaplanCycles 6 ай бұрын

It really is!

@1Joe-dangerous 6 ай бұрын

Malcom Smith also was on Husky.

@sissygoog9456 6 ай бұрын

Wow! What an absolutely gorgeous motorcycle wild Ken, what a collection of motorcycles. I can't wait to come! Ken Kaplan number one gas gas New England motorcycle museum what an amazing motorcycle owned by Steve McQueen. I've never seen it. Kan you blow my mind? New England motorcycle museum number one❤

@markwiebner7806 6 ай бұрын

Sweet bike! I love the polished tank, Al fenders, and easy to reach air filter. It's really cool.

@terencesingerline135 6 ай бұрын

Incredible bike! Love the Husqvarna history

@aok5680 6 ай бұрын

Bullitt…Charger and the Fastback. Best car chase movie seen ever💪🇺🇸

@oiljobber 6 ай бұрын

Great bike! McQueen was the man!

@georgepidick9967 6 ай бұрын

Sweet bike for sure, a real mud slinger !

@bobbymckinney1264 6 ай бұрын

What a awesome video you guys are off the charts,sr.is full of knowledge best motorcycle museum ever!!

@VirtualGuth 6 ай бұрын

Awesome bike, though I don't recall the rear suspension travel being quite that extensive back in the late 60s/early 70s time frame. Thanks to On Any Sunday (which my father took me to the theater to see ), I'll forever associate Steve McQueen and Malcolm Smith with Husqvarnas. But I also always think about Kent Howerton and Chuck Sun who I watched racing the later generation Huskies during the 70s.

@shawnufis 6 ай бұрын

That's like the bike I used to drool over when I was a pre-teen at Bill's Cycle Shop in Kingsport, TN.

@danarussell4246 6 ай бұрын

When I first started riding and reading Dirt Bike Magazine the Husqvarna fuel tank is what blew me away. I raced 6 Husky’s during my short career in enduros but only 2 had the metal tanks with the mirrored side panels. All the rest had the white plastic tanks. Man they were the good Ole Days.

@paolomarozzo72 16 күн бұрын

Fantastic example, congratulations, in our Kawasaki VMX Museum Italy we have a priceless example of a Kawasaki linked to Steve McQueen and the movie LE MANS, the only example in the world which later also belonged to Burt Reynolds.... Greetings from us!

@countermoonman 6 ай бұрын

I could sit in a chair with case of ice cold ale and just stare at that beautiful Husky for hours I tell ya, it doesn’t get any better than that my friends, cheers 🍻 to ya! 😎🇺🇸✌️

@carlphelps4098 6 ай бұрын

Once again.. Thank you Mr Kaplan for more great motorcycle history! 💥💯😎

@ejkrakowiak6905 6 ай бұрын

Hence the Husqvarna logo is meant to look like a gunsight on top of a gun barrel.

@oliverlewis4433 6 ай бұрын

Great video about mcqueen and the story about the husky. And it was awesome to see robbies cr500 in a video too. I'd like to go to this museum someday, I have to make it

@DesertoftheMind 24 күн бұрын

Very nice video. One of the most beautiful motorcycles ever made.

@dusty7264 6 ай бұрын

I still race a 74 CR-250 in old timers. That’s a gorgeous bike

@mustangracer5124 6 ай бұрын

I raced in those days, I saw McQueen and Malcolm on their Huskies out in /the Jurupa wash near his shop, McQueen's bike had yellow plates on it and Malcolm had a factory stock Husky. I heard they made arrangements to have an extra works bike brought to the race.

@whereswaldo5740 6 ай бұрын

My brother had a 69 Bonneville. It was awesome. He had his own business. Construction. So when the weather was nice he worked. When it rained he could’ve ride. SooOoo I rode it. Had it going 120 mph a couple times.

@sonnyseabury4051 6 ай бұрын

Very interesting and informative video, on the history of that beautiful Husqvarna Dirtbike from Any given Sunday!

@johnhargis4566 6 ай бұрын

Steve McQueen a k a the king of cool rode a Triumph in the I.S.D.T. he was only being himself in his movies 😊

@Some-guy-you-dont-know 6 ай бұрын

“Husk-varn-a”. Only three syllables. Awesome bike.

@barrycuda3769 6 ай бұрын

Or , Hoosky Varna .

@jpesicka492 6 ай бұрын

HUSS-SKI

@mikeschlup5279 6 ай бұрын

Hus-varna . The Q is silent...

@Some-guy-you-dont-know 6 ай бұрын

@@mikeschlup5279 "Hoosk-varna" is how the Swedes say it, but either way the Q sound is in there. Say it any way you want - the bikes still kick ass.

@billychristopher9524 6 ай бұрын

Hoosker do

@tomhowe1510 6 ай бұрын

Ooo my bad. I thought this was the actual Steve McQueen bike. I got you. I dont know how you find these gems.

@kevinsivertson5800 6 ай бұрын

Blast from the past !

@DeVoNmotorsports 6 ай бұрын

14:05 a 2 stroke is basicaly a 4 stroke with a supercharger for a crankshaft that removes the valves and timing components, combining intake and compression into 1 stroke and and power and exhaust into the second, 4 stroke has much more moving parts and makes much less HP for its size, 2 strokes engines really could benefit from a pressure lubricated crankshaft that way they DO NOT NEED TO BURN OIL

@thomasgentry6201 6 ай бұрын

Husky , Maiko, Bultaco all cool!

@jrs4ex 6 ай бұрын

Great video Sr love the history. I wonder what Steve’s first motorcycle would sell for today? It was a 1946 Indian chief and it sold for $143,750 in 2013. I love some of the classic stories from Steve McQueen. “In the fall of 1951 Mr. McQueen had “saved enough money to buy a battered cycle with a sidecar (removed at an unstated time), which he proudly tooled around the Village. ‘It was my first bike and I loved it,’ admitted Steve. ‘But I was going with a girl who began to hate the cycle - just hated riding in the bumpy sidecar. She told me, “Either the cycle goes or I go!” ‘Well, there was no contest. She went.’” McQueen was working in New York and that battered cycle was this 1946 Indian Chief”

@bobg1219 6 ай бұрын

Badass twin shocker!

@deakin2880 6 ай бұрын

in 69-71 the shifter and brake were reversed. the style pictured in this video began in 1972 my brother and i both had those bikes

@rockracing325 4 ай бұрын

Great History ,, THANKS

@Todd-w7i 6 ай бұрын

I remember a local ad for one of these some years ago. The reason I remember it so well was because of the description "get this thing out of my garage before I kill myself" Priceless.

@kk2into194 6 ай бұрын

My Dad had that Yamaha 400!

@williambaird6276 6 ай бұрын

Just Awesome…🇬🇧🇺🇸🏍️

@TT-qo9dv 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful motorcycle 👍

@grahamchilds821 6 ай бұрын

Back in the day sweden could make a fun exiting bike they were very unique

@Movimentoroots 6 ай бұрын

Que linda motocicleta 👏✌️🇧🇷

@brianandtammyhess7625 6 ай бұрын

Awesome job can

@joelatkinson2080 6 ай бұрын

Another great video!!!

@KaplanCycles 6 ай бұрын

Thanks again!

@1sir-onworld 6 ай бұрын

🐝🏁 I enjoy riding all my gas bikes, but I'm having so much fun on my ebikes . The future is changing 🌅🔥🌪. I enjoy all your videos brother keep them coming 💯

@DS-oi4wl 6 ай бұрын

Sidewinder 1 (1977) is a great moto movie. It is about a former factory motocross racer who gets hired by an upstart company to develop their bike. Free on KZbin.

@peterk1410 6 ай бұрын

What a Beautiful Bike "Husky"

@Arc-popz 5 ай бұрын

Those rotax motors were widowmakers regardless of chassis they came on.😅

@rmendoza5953 6 ай бұрын

I lived about 18 miles outside of the Los Angeles city limits in a small town called Norwalk. One day I pulled up to a light about three cars back and this fire engine red Harley was next to me. I was checking out the bike and looked up at the guy on it and it was Steve McQueen. He was heavy set with shoulder length long hair. He was wearing a blue collar long sleeve shirt, Levis, lace up work boots and aviator sun glasses. I didn't say anything to him because I was shy at that time. He looked like his mind was some place else. When we got up to the light he went right and I went straight. A few years after that he passed away from cancer.

@Nudnik1 6 ай бұрын

" Husq varna" means " house by river " in Swedish . I had a few Swedish Husqvarna 1970s to 80s . Loved them . I had a Heiko Mikkola replica 🟣 purple tank cr360gp .

@KaplanCycles 6 ай бұрын

So cool!

@steveortega534 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful 😍

@kevinleake6702 6 ай бұрын

XLENT !!!!!!

@sssp3071 6 ай бұрын

The only difference between that bike and the ratty one that Steve McQueen owned is about $250,000 today. Steve's ratty one still had the rear inner fender and side number plates on it though. Maybe that's why it's that much more valuable today.

@1Joe-dangerous 6 ай бұрын

ON ANY Sunday Is free on KZbin.

@glendekoker3682 6 ай бұрын

Love it

@joelaichner3025 3 ай бұрын

The two levers on the left , are they both clutch levers , one for sitting down , the other for standing up ?

@KaplanCycles 3 ай бұрын

The smaller one is the compression release

@joelaichner3025 3 ай бұрын

@@KaplanCycles that was my other guess , thanks for telling me

@TraveladvRajanSRai 6 ай бұрын

ATK and christini from here got full line up as well atk did chrisitnii still makes a 300 2 st n 450 4 stroke thats awd has fwd switchable us made

@nicolaslenaour908 6 ай бұрын

Juste superbe!

@barrycuda3769 6 ай бұрын

You often hear that the shocks weren't too good in those day's , that they would lose their damping pretty quickly due to heat , I wonder if the shocks were of superior quality on Husky's ? . Iv'e also wondered what Mc Queen thought of dirt bikes by the time he died in 1980 , impressed I would think. On any Sunday was a cool movie , but Le Mans was on another level , unfortunately he didn't live long enough to know of its cult status now .

@dukeskywalker8547 6 ай бұрын

he debued the TR6 Triumph scrambler 1200, same bike in the great escape........Mcqueen could cook!

@Jeff-pc1zu 6 ай бұрын

Husqvarna made rifles many,many moons ago.

@sissygoog9456 6 ай бұрын

Did you just say Husqvarna started in 1918? I wonder if they raced it on dirt or wood

@matthewklempke2384 6 ай бұрын

I was told by an older man that the CZs where the Husqvarna killers of the desert. This maybe the 70s he was talking about. Wayyy before i was born. Not sure if that was true or not but thats what i was told.

@TraveladvRajanSRai 6 ай бұрын

also zabel bikes