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Film Girl on a Motorbike

Submitted by roger_ridley1 on Wed, 17/07/2024
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I remember watching the film "Girl on a Motorbike" in about 1967 but seem to remember a Norton 650ss being ridden . However I have recently been lead to believe only a Harley Davidson was used.. Please can someone tell me if indeed a 650ss was used in that film as I do really believe in fact such a bike was used by Marian  Faithfull.?
I have been looking to get hold of that film of 1967  in DVD to no avail.

Submitted by michael_ball on Wed, 17/07/2024

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I think her bike was a Harley and the boyfriend had the Norton.

I'm not watching it again to verify.

Thank you Michael ,so I was right that there was a Norton ( which I am fairly confident was a new 650ss but not absolutely sure). I seem to remember it being ridden in the snow .I would only be confident in doing the same only for the fact of  it having  the benefit of a Featherbed Frame.

Submitted by richard_cornish on Thu, 18/07/2024

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Hi Roger,      I don't think Marian Faithfull did much riding. Bill Ivy, Yamaha works rider, did all the action shots wearing a blond wig ! This film has been shown on the Talking Pictures TV channel in the past few years.

Thank you Richard for verifying the fact that there was a Norton in the film even though she may not have been riding it and showing the Norton being sat on by someone else.

Thanks Bennie but alas Youtube film not available to me even after clicking on the link but thanks anyway. Seems to buttoned it down to an Atlas or a 650ss.

Submitted by philip_hannam1 on Thu, 18/07/2024

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The Concenric carbs, tank colour and tall cylinder flange nuts suggest this bike is most likely to be a 1967/68 Atlas.
It is one of those awful B movies where watching paint dry was more far interesting.

Submitted by barry_carson1 on Thu, 18/07/2024

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hello , on about paint  i looked at the tin of paint i was using the other day. it said put on two coats. i was absolutely roasting when i had finnished . i couldnt wait to take them off.

barry

Submitted by bennie_hulshof on Thu, 18/07/2024

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In a second hand bookshop, I came across a Dutch translation of the book by De Mandiargues. It  came with a tantalizing (for me at the time that is, I was much younger then..) title: "Naakt onder het leer" meaning so much as Naked under the leather.. Of course, I had to have it..

naakt

 



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