ON ANY SUNDAY: THE NEXT CHAPTER\u00a0 – Passes Torch and Reaffirms our Destiny<\/strong><\/p>\n As somebody who started out riding motorcycles in the 1960s on a push-rod Honda Trail 90, I may not be the best person to offer an unbiased review of On Any Sunday:The Next Chapter<\/em> but I will try.<\/p>\n Racing legend Kenny Roberts, theatre management, Jerry Fouts, local sponsors, and I welcomed motorcycle and powersports enthusiasts to the SOLD OUT event. Little did we know just how well the broad demographics of those attending Dana Brown\u2019s sequel to his dad\u2019s classic masterpiece would be mirrored in the movie.<\/p>\n The film focused on youth riders, family fun, and a new generation of professional competitors from various disciplines.\u00a0 It also weaved in some inspirational stories of riders such as Doug Henry, Jake McCullough, and Ashley Fiolek. \u00a0Robbie Maddison and Travis Pastrana wowed the audience with their passion for the sport and their unbelievable motorcycle stunts which often left folks speechless and\/or hanging on to their seat.<\/p>\n On an international basis, the show featured the current stars of MotoGP, medical staff using motorcycles to serve backcountry areas in Zambia, and busy commuters in Vietnam.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Modesto event was particularly rich because one of the On Any Sunday-era stars, Kenny Roberts, was at the theatre signing posters and visiting with the attendees.\u00a0 That movie was shot 43 years ago by Dana\u2019s father, Bruce Brown.<\/p>\n I felt the short interviews with motorcycle icons, Kenny Roberts, Mert Lawwill, and Roger DeCoster appropriately \u201cpassed the torch\u201d to this newer generation of riders and professional athletes.<\/p>\n In my opinion, the most notable \u201cupdate\u201d in the film came when several riders talked about the loss of trails and riding areas over the last 40 years.\u00a0 This segment only lasted for about a minute, but it is historic as this is the first acknowledgment (that I know of) by a major production company that \u201cland-use\u201d is now an important aspect of the sport.\u00a0 Maybe it wasn\u2019t an accident that this showing in Modesto was to benefit the legal fight to preserve riding opportunities for current and future generations.<\/p>\n As people streamed out of the theatre after the movie ended, I noticed a lot of smiles on young and old riders alike.\u00a0 For those of us who are passionate about, and hard-wired for, motorcycles, the show was a personal reaffirmation that our sport is not a choice but our destiny.<\/p>\n # # #<\/p>\n Don Amador is a contractor to the BlueRibbon Coalition and serves as their Western Representative.\u00a0 Don is also president of Quiet Warrior Racing, a motorized recreation consulting company.\u00a0 He writes on recreation and land-use issues from his office in Oakley, CA.\u00a0 He may be reached at<\/em>:damador@cwo.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Movie Review\/Opinion By Don Amador Date: November 23, 2014 *Permission to reprint is hereby granted ON ANY SUNDAY: THE NEXT CHAPTER\u00a0 – Passes Torch and Reaffirms our Destiny As somebody who started out riding motorcycles in the 1960s on a push-rod Honda Trail 90, I may not be the best … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ama-d36.org\/archive\/d36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ama-d36.org\/archive\/d36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ama-d36.org\/archive\/d36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ama-d36.org\/archive\/d36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ama-d36.org\/archive\/d36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ama-d36.org\/archive\/d36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ama-d36.org\/archive\/d36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ama-d36.org\/archive\/d36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ama-d36.org\/archive\/d36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ama-d36.org\/archive\/d36\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"OAS](\"http:\/\/ama-d36.org\/archive\/d36prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/OAS-1.png\")
Last week, I attended the one time showing of the movie at The State Theatre, a 500-seat venue, in Modesto, California on behalf of the BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC), a national trail-based non-profit recreation group. \u00a0I want to give some major props to Jerry Fouts, the current president of AMA District 36, for organizing this event as a fundraiser for the BRC Legal Program to help support our collective effort to keep trails and riding areas open for OHV use.<\/p>\n![\"OAS](\"http:\/\/ama-d36.org\/archive\/d36prod\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/OAS-3.png\")
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