5 Motorcycling Movies That You Should Watch While Working From Home

There is no denying it, the COVID-19 outbreak is nothing less than a pandemic that threatens almost every country on this planet right now. One is bound to feel low in this lull period. However, we have the remedy to, if not solve your dilemma, at least uplift your spirits. Here are our picks of the best motorcycling-themed video content that you should check out while working from home:

1. The World's Fastest Indian
Setting land speed records is no joke. You’ve got to get everything right, from the smallest nut on the bike to the nut who’s riding it. However, in 1967, a Kiwi landed at the Bonneville Salt Flats on his garage-built streamliner based on a humble 1920 Indian Scout. Follow the adventures of one Burt Munro as he journeys from Invercagill, New Zealand, all the way across the Pacific to the salt flats of Utah. Both man and machine were far from being in an ideal shape. Munro, despite having a heart condition, was allowed to race his Scout on makeshift rubber, with no brake and no chute! Anthony Hopkins delivers a tearjerking masterclass of a man hell bent on going faster than anyone had gone before him and, for even a few years later, after him.

2. Hitting The Apex
The 2019 Valencia GP seems such a long time ago. By now, we should already have had the MotoGP season underway under the night sky in Qatar, with the Thai GP on this weekend. Wondering how to fill the void of motorsport content? Check out Hitting The Apex. The latest in the line of MotoGP documentaries, Hitting The Apex picks up from Fastest as it follows the life of six riders – Valentino Rossi, Casey Stoner, Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa, Marc Marquez and the late Marco Simoncelli – over the course of the 2013 and 2014 seasons, including the dark day where Simoncelli lost his life. Curated by MotoGP commentator Mark Neale and voiced by Brad Pitt, Hitting The Apex encapsulates all the emotions and drama that these superhumans and their family members go through over the course of a MotoGP season.

3. On Any Sunday
“You meet the nicest people on a Honda,” was the social campaign that Honda used to promote its motorcycles in the United States of America -- which makes you wonder just how grim it was to be a motorcyclist in those days. On Any Sunday came out in 1971, in an era when bikers were included amongst social outcasts and biking had a bad rep in general. Credit must be given to the legendary actor Steve McQueen, a die-hard motorcyclist who produced the film while being part of the racing community back then. The movie was one of the first to use helmet-mounted camera-shots, more than 40 years before the GoPro was invented. Riders rode proper dirt tracks with the bulky camera equipment of the time. However, the footage still manages to put 90 per cent of the motovlogging content on YouTube of today to shame.

4. Our Guy In India
Did you know that Guy Martin came to India, rode a Royal Enfield Bullet 350, went to RiderMania, participated in the dirt track race and won (obviously)? Neither did we in 2014. However, the truck-mechanic-turned-Isle-of-Man-TT-racer did just that. Part of Guy’s epic travel series, Our Guy In India is a two-part feature where he engages in Indian customs and tradition, is befuddled by Indian jugaad and rides down from Delhi to Goa for the biggest convention of Royal Enfields in the world.

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5. Baribari Densetsu
On the surface, Baribari Densetsu might appear to be your standard Japanese anime fare, with high-school rivalries, over-the-top machismo and (possibly) underage girlfriends. But the opening first few minutes featuring a canyon race between our protagonists on a Honda CB750 and a Suzuki Katana should be enough to convince you that this is something rather special. The loving attention to detail with every aspect of the motorcycles and plenty of racing action that’s more believable than any live-action motorcycle movie are hallmarks of creator Shuichi Shigeno, who later went on to create the legendary Initial D. Definitely worth a watch!

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