Steve McQueen (Vintage) Motocross

Steve McQueen & Malcolm Smith, race the 100 miler at Elsinore.

[@christianmeyer5353]

Steve and Malcom inspire so many of us to ride motorcycles. At 71 they still bring good memories. I still ride a BMW Gs 1200, a KLR 650 and a Goldwing 1800

[@Airbaja]

Those were the daze, you could ride anywhere no hassles, except the occasional County Mounty, right?

[@EarthSurferUSA]

@@Airbaja No where to ride in Rural Michigan anymore, unless it is your private land, some scattered MX tracks left, (not for me anymore), or state run trails that you have to trailer to for most. I don't know for sure, so I like to think that is why dirt bikes riders are taking over major cities. I know we never imagined such a thing. I think it is funny. The spirit was killed in rural USA, and it pops up in major cities. :)

[@Airbaja]

@@EarthSurferUSA My Pop's fam goes back three generations in Mich., he moved to S.F. in High School. He freaked when while driving route 66 the desert was so wide open. However, it is highly regulated in Callie now as well. I do the Baja myself....

[@SCrepresent]

This was a great time. On Any Sunday is still 1 of my all time faves. The 70’s was such a great time in my life

[@POLDRO]

It may seem a long way back for some, but for those who Lived, Rode and Loved in the 70's, there is little to no regret by age.

[@Airbaja]

No regrets!

[@toddm5337]

Age is nothing but a number, well spoken my friend Texas 👍🇺🇲⚾🥁🍿 ps. Damn was that fun or what :-)

[@jjstewart2120]

You can't beat 70s dirt bike footage ..has a curtain inocence and romance:) appreciated.

[@slit4659]

I guess by 70s Dirt Bikes and ROMANCE you must be talking about .....TWO STROKES......🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@Machi74005]

@@slit4659 I rode 4 strokes in the 70's.

[@markedwards7721]

Nobody even thought to say, "no you can't spectate from here"

[@inakigoenaga9811]

70s and 90s two opposite sides, the 2 best moments in the soport

[@abdeslamacherki5842]

@@slit4659 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaäääaaaäaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaäaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaäaaäaaaaaä

[@InfernusEternum]

1:44 Steve, you couldn't be more right. Ridin the dirt is the most fun a guy can have.

[@neilr4867]

He is right. I don't think I'd be here today if it weren't for motorcycles.

[@TresAmigos-ix9vo]

@@neilr4867same here brother me and my friends always hit the dirt and ripppp

[@3dpdstom]

I have “any given Sunday” on a loop out in my garage when I’m working on my bikes. I’ve never met Steve or Malcom but they seem like they would have been a blast to hang out/ride with back in the day. Steve was taken from us way to soon. F@%k cancer

[@bill2953]

Steve was a good guy, super intense. Never had the opp to meet Malcolm.

[@deepbludude4697]

The first time I watched "On any Sunday" was 1982 on Ascension island, volcano movie theater it was a free outdoor movie they ran for us working there. 10cent beers and this movie. Next day id go out on a DT250 and tear up some goat trails great times!

[@sawmillguy9706]

Was born in 73 wasn't even around back then but On Any Sunday is one of the best documentary films ever made.

[@Airbaja]

73 My fav year! Graduated from College and moved to the beach with my friends, look-out world! lmfao

[@MrFobob]

WONDERFUL FOOTAGE , REMINDS ME OF MY DAY WHEN I WASFLORIDA MOTOCROSS CHAMP IN 1971, I MISS THOSE DAYS, BEST TIME IN MY OLD LIFE NOW OF 74 YEARS OLD

[@garlandremingtoniii4679]

MrFobob Im 63 now. Birthday is September the 14th, 1957. I will NEVER, EVER, FORGET The 70s. I started riding in 73 on the infamous 1973 Honda CR125M Elsinore. This was the 1st year that Honda came ashore with them here in America. And did they take America by STORM. According to MOTOCROSS ACTION MAGAZINE, in there article in 2018 of Sept, my birthday month, “When the floodgates opened in 1974, they really opened. The Honda 125 came ashore in huge numbers. It was very bad news for companies like Penton, Bultaco and Hodaka, which had made their names producing small-displacement two-strokes. The Honda CR125M was the beginning of the end for all three of those makes. No other manufacturer has ever sold as many 125 models in volume as Honda did for 36 years. The historical run of the Honda 125 Elsinore. Yamaha came out with the YZ125 that same year but didn’t pull the trigger on production in the same quantity as Honda. The same was true for Suzuki and Kawasaki. In 1974, motocross exploded as America’s biggest boom sport. Tracks were appearing everywhere, and half of the participants were riding Honda 125s. It was the best example in motorcycle history of guessing right. Honda anticipated the demand perfectly..... What followed was the famous period of hyper-evolution in motocross. Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha and then Kawasaki would leapfrog each other in technology year after year. Through most of those years, the Honda sold very well. Sometimes it would top the 125 class in both performance and sales; sometimes it wouldn’t. It was a dogfight that would last 30 years. And in the end, in sales numbers and in horsepower, Honda in the 125 class, Honda won out.”

[@chrismoody1342]

This is the time period when I started motocrossing. Riders today have no idea how tough and rough it was back then with next to no suspension. The suspension was you. And don’t think those bikes weren’t fast either. There were guys on their Yamaha DT1’s enduros and then there were guys on dedicated motocrossers, huge difference.

[@Airbaja]

Heavy Maan! The bikes were heavy, maan! I had a enduro , perfect for those even/odd gas daze!

[@EarthSurferUSA]

A bigger difference is the fact that we as kids could afford our own bikes back then, with just a part time job,---or else almost nobody would know the difference.

[@robertrobb2367]

Great footage of Saddleback!!!

[@toddcott9510]

On any Sunday, the best motorcycle movie ever.

[@Airbaja]

By miles, right?!

[@brianskywalker9796]

Well done vid my man, gave me goose bumps. Love Steve and Malcom. Raced my 250wr husky in the Arma series for 5 years, until i got ran down on my street bike by some uninsured no license scumbag. Great times and folks in the vintage series. Funny how it was always me against the suzukis too.........

[@thejerseyj1636]

Fantastic ! Wow, it seems we never appreciate the present as much as we should. This shows not only racing but a basic freedom that's lost. We were able to live without the constraint that we feel now. You can't get that close to the action anymore and I know it's safer, but damn, I miss deciding for myself what I'm able to handle. Excellent soundtrack, you just know The Allman Brothers when you hear them. And sidecar motocross ? I never even knew it existed. Very cool video and great photo of Steve McQueen at the end.

[@DennisRider-e6o]

Love the Allmam Bros background music

[@dawnrobb8809]

I was a teenager living in Oceanside when this was going on. My friends and I would go to Lake Elsinore & Carlsbad Raceway all the time. Nobody knew that was steve McQueen until a story ran in the papers. Then everyone started going out to Lake Elsinore to see if he'd be back riding on any given weekend. Rumors were he did show up a few other times to ride the trails in the hills surrounding the town. I never did see him personally but had fun dirt riding with my friends anyways

[@Sirskibumsalot]

I grew up in O,side too , use to go to carlsbad raceway ....so bummed it is gone now ; (

[@robertrobb2367]

I'll ride for you.

[@SilverFox-fq7xi]

Allman Brothers music in the back ground? Thanks for posting, brings back the memories

[@Airbaja]

Dreams baby Dreams! Thanks for watchin, Maan!

[@InfernusEternum]

Still on the fence if Molly Hatchet did it better, friend. I love both versions.

[@mikeskidmore6754]

Steve McQuween was areal bad ass.. and he prefeered to live amongst the common folk .. He had Blue collar friends.. Too bad he handled asbestos in the Navy and smoked cigarettes a deadly combination.. Lost him way too young.. I am guessing he made Mustangs Popular too ..

[@MrHardPressed]

this is from "On any Sunday". DVD. Great movie and our family loves to watch it!

[@tedbaxter5234]

What a wonderful video! It should have a lot more views. Loved the pictures of the bikes from the 70’s - I remember when they were the state of the art! Thank you!

[@johngeorges7708]

This is so my life as a kid. Riding those great old bikes. Dreaming about owning others. Riding at Saddleback, Muntz, Hinkley dry lake, Gorman, Opal Mountain, Jawbone Canyon, Indian dunes.....and riding in the hills behind my house in Porter ranch.

[@timcarter9071]

Me too !! Still ride still jump back wheel first lol

[@mattf49006]

And Baymare track out in Somis....Muntz was 7 miles from my house...good times

[@tappedout300xc]

Good stuff ! Enjoyed watching old Saddleback and the music was spot on .

[@Airbaja]

Thanks, for the cool comments man, rock on!

[@jonjones6749]

RIP Steve

[@jklr2811]

@2:02 bought this bike the JT2 Enduro when I was 12 with my own saved up money in 1972. We would ride the California Deserts: Redrock Canyon, Lake El Mirage, Gorman area and many other spots...at 14 started racing with my brothers Yamaha 100 at Indian Dunes battling the likes of Johnny O'mara, and others...great time of life.

[@Airbaja]

We had the same back yard, we would go to "Gorgedman" (our name for it, due to the roadrash it could inflict,lol.)right after a dusting of snow, the logging roads would ice over and we had our own natural,'slip and slid.. I was a Senior that year, goooood times! Oh, nice bike dude, I was sporting a 175 Induro...

[@jklr2811]

Awesome...good to hear from guy's from back in the good ole days...sometimes it seems like it was all just a dream.

[@tristanwwsd]

Too bad photography wasn't about 60 years ahead during this era.

[@michaelserby-xp2ih]

I'll drop a line... ...

[@goaliemojo4310]

"every time I think the world is all bad" I motocross (kinda SM), thank you Mr. McQueen! ON ANY SUNDAY started my love for two wheels in dirt and the fat lady has still to sing

[@scottschwen7558]

Wonderful iconic & inspirational video, with Malcolm and Steve ! Thank you ! Me >>> 70 years old with two motorcycles and living life to the fullest ! Every ride is a new adventure ! My wife chases me on her Can-Am Spyder F3-S ! RIDE & BE FREE !!! 🏍️🏍️🏍️

[@HarveyMushman888]

People always say "Those were the good old days".....but I think they really were the good old days....

[@bill2953]

Steve broke his foot, finished 8th, had the doc slap on a cast, then flew down to Sebring and came in 2nd overall in the 12 hr race w co-driver Peter Revson. And they say no one remembers who came in second. lol

[@Airbaja]

The Man!

[@TXLorenzo]

I had my second dirt bike by 1973. On Any Sunday movie shaped my world at the time.

[@Airbaja]

My first was a Mini-bike then my 125 Enduro, I lived in Glendora about 20 min. from where the race was back then, an hour easy now, good times! Thanks for the comment Man.

[@faroutgolf3650]

Much happier times in America. Now our country is being taken apart and places to ride have been taken away by angry miserable people... Let's take America back!

[@catdaddy3302]

The first races I went to were in a Mississippi cow pasture about 30 minutes South of Memphis. This was about 1967 or 68, called Hare Scrambles. The bikes were either Japanese or Husqvarna, Hodaka Super Rats, and BSA or Triumph Scramblers in open class. We had none of the modern suspensions like they have today. I can't believe the Ariel acrobatics we see today.

[@Airbaja]

I had a Bull Taco, lol, the other thing about "The Daze" we could ride anywhere, 'The Maan' didn't care...much,lol.

[@Airbaja]

My brother and I shared a Bull-Taco! Vroooom vroooom

[@rogerdodrill4733]

Might have even seen Ariel motorcycles. I've got red hunter 500 4 stroke single

[@randymcgrew7636]

I just bought a 1959 Triumph Tiger Cub that Steve McQueen saposed to have bought for his grandson been put away for years trying to track history of it any help out there Thanks

[@bajaborracho9139]

Man this movie makes water come out of my face and I don't even cry!

[@Airbaja]

Dig ya Bro!

[@peacefulwarrior4078]

Harvey mushman 😂

[@cricri7615]

J adore cet acteur un vrai casse coup et bel homme qu' il fût😍😍😍

[@patd4u2]

Great old vintage films, enjoyed it, Just to let you know the 1972 Carlsbad race was not a world championship race, it was a Tans AMA race.

[@fotisfotakis1623]

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[@darrennickoley1653]

Duane playing into the ether

[@JeanmarieDISDERODOC]

Dear Bob Airhart, Do you know the origin of this TVreport? The TV channel or production? Thanks

[@Airbaja]

J/M, I put this together from several sources, but a nice chunk was from the film,'On any Sunday'..Happy Holidays!

[@JeanmarieDISDERODOC]

@@Airbaja Thanks the beginning in Elsinore it comes from "on any sunday" ?? Ok i didn't know.... thanks for the info ... i will try to contact the distributor.

[@befmx31]

I had one of those little yellow Yamaha mini enduros. It was 60ccs. Compare that to the 65cc or even worse, 50cc minis of today. Holy Cow!

[@darrennickoley1653]

dreams

[@davecox5955]

Should not the definition of "Motorola".

[@billstowers5588]

what ever happened to the "Undertaker from Waukeegan" and "the pig farmer from Murrieta"???

[@slit4659]

Jj Stewart ....Talks about 70s Dirt Bikes and ROMANCE.....WTF..... I guess he's talking about ....2 STROKES......🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@Airbaja]

If you've owned let's say a Bull Taco, you'd know..Two strokes are wild four strokes are thumpers, I still ride and own both, no comparison..

[@jefftate01]

Back when every make of bike had it's own look and personality. You could work on them without a computer. Just a box of simple tools. Todays bikes are cast from the same mold and all look just alike, just different stickers...ugh. And the smell of castor oil exhaust was just the best. The 70s...very good times.

[@Airbaja]

Right, my enduro was indestructible, just had to carry an extra plug on long trip, lol....

[@thejerseyj5479]

Motorcycle racing, Steve McQueen, and the Allman Brothers. Perfect.

[@Airbaja]

Thanks J/J!

[@davethemace5200]

On Any Sunday The Best of Bruce Brown.. I saw it in Westwood Theater the First moment it came out...

[@Airbaja]

First of it's kind Maan, right?! Thanks for the memory Dave!

[@wk4max]

What's the song at about 3 mins 4o ?? ,brilliant video my friend, MAX Liverpool England

[@Airbaja]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4Snop6wj7SEedE wk4max you are a brother from another mother, this song is mesmerizing!

[@wk4max]

Thanks man!!! What a tune!! Hey Baja [e-mail]

[@mt.rushmore7916]

That took some serious nuts to ride sidehack!!!!!

[@Airbaja]

My brother and I tied our shakeboards together and road down some MASSIVE hills with a tight right hander.. You are correct WE were serious nutzzz! Thanks for reminding me Mt. R...

[@markedwards7721]

Fantastic fun.

[@joaquinmunozbuzon3478]

Queen Forever

[@p47thunderbolt68]

Does these type of races still go on ?

[@Airbaja]

In Baja Calif. not in Cali anymore...

[@ridemfast7625]

How I miss the 60's and 70's in California. The best place on the planet to live and grow up. Cali really is a sheit hole now. I still ride and am fortunate living in the foothills of the Sierras where it is still predominantly conservative. Albeit, that is slowly changing and for the worse.

[@Airbaja]

Not much changes for the good anymore, right?! Big Brother smothering tactics abound! Class of 73 digs what your layin down brother...

[@joelvela4366]

cool video.

[@Airbaja]

Thank Bro! This is my other Steve McQueen video....The music was his favorite, he scored his movie, "The Thomas Crown Affair" with it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2G3hKaXmreEmZI

[@patkeeler6645]

+Airbaja hes been in my dreams

[@harleydavidson6851]

I was 13 wen I saw this. Got me a Brand New Yamaha 80 within a Year & a half! The ADDICTION HAS NEVER ENDED! 5 DECADES LATER! Gerritsen Beach Bklyn! FOND Memories! God Bless