| Author | Message | ||
     Bcordb3 |
Cool Stuff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrLvYrKYVD8 | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
Nice. Anyone know what kind of bikes they were riding?  | ||
| Skinstains |
That's an awfull lot of cops in one place. Do you think they practiced on the taxpayers dime ? | ||
| Preybird1 |
I bet they did! they are like big fat synchronized swimmers  | ||
| Ulynut |
I thought you meant DRILL! I got so exited.  | ||
| Danger_dave |
Yeah - I like the big drills too - I used to do the marketing materials for the hunter valley coal mining network back in aus. I have pics of some drills and land dredges that were simply amazing. Some of the ore trains were nearly a Km long too. Pre digital prints in a box stored somewhere in Newcastle. | ||
| Bcordb3 |
Didn't take to long for this thread to be high jacked. (Message edited by BCordb3 on November 20, 2008) | ||
| Danger_dave |
Is that a Jack - hammer joke? | ||
| Brumbear |
 I had to | ||
| Lightningrob |
"Anyone know what kind of bikes they were riding?" I was thinking they would be Ducatis, but it was hard for me to tell. In one shot they looked like Triumphs and in another they looked like H-Ds. I'm kinda curious now as to what they are. | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
Not Ducati - they only had light weights at the time. Not Triumph or HD either: they didn't have big singles. Next? (Message edited by Gentleman_jon on November 21, 2008) | ||
| Danger_dave |
moto bloody guzzis. why do you think the mafia got so big? - the cops couldn't catch them! | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
Well done, Dave !!! Model, anyone? | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
Hint:  | ||
| 86129squids |
Aermacchi? Moto Morini? My first motorized scoot was a Moto Morini moped. | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
I remember Aer Macchi and Moto Morini well. My twin brother had a 250 Moto Morini production racer back in the day. However this bike is none of those either. It is a Moto Guzzi Falcone, known as a gamba lungha or long legged, which was in production for many years. A five hundred cc. horizontal single, it was easily recognized from its external, chrome plated fly wheel, affectionately called the meat slicer. It was a favorite of military and police. The ones in the film seem to have the front leg shields which were standard accessories for the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy that police both the military and civilian populations. | ||
| Prof_stack |
Did somebody say Moto Guzzi?   This photo taken last weekend next to the flooded farmlands east of Seattle, with Mt. Rainier in the background. |
