Motorcycle Classics

TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT

Two motorcycle documentary films, above all others, are considered classics today.

On Any Sunday probably registered first in your mind as one of those films, but if you weren’t part of the motorcycle scene during the early 1980s you may not be familiar with the other title, Take It To The Limit, produced and directed by expatriated Englishman Peter Starr.

Starr’s film focuses on what could be described as motorcycle racing’s Golden Era — the mid-to-late 1970s. ’s opening scene features an aerial view of the late Dave Emde riding

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