The world as a very different place in 1978. Far, far from perfect, but much less cynical and much more authentic than today.

Hard to believe how much people have changed in only 40 something years.

@michaelvicario2584

2 жыл бұрын

1992109

I lived in Daytona from 1981 to 1986. Bike Week was always an extreme adventure. This video brought back lots of memories.

Observation. Willie G walking around looking and listening to the consumer. Something today's Harley brass would probably benefit from.

@DS_Dronezone

4 жыл бұрын

@Booch he died

@osoriocorey

4 жыл бұрын

Nobody cares anymore Harley is trying hard to be something so dar from what they were. So over refined corporate bs bikes made for drs and lawyers

@mechcavandy986

3 жыл бұрын

We have to buy after market parts because they don’t come with what we need.

@DTCN1974

3 жыл бұрын

@@DS_Dronezone no shit

@DTCN1974

3 жыл бұрын

@Booch he's dead

When Men were men , no electric suits , just layers of heavy clothing and a ton of motivation. 1st time I rode my own bike was ‘96 from NYC , have been there 5 times since and hope to do it again . Thank you for sharing this 👍

June 22nd 1978 was when I entered this Dimension. With that much being said 1978 was an awesome year.

John, Willie & Nancy Davidson, Vaughn Beals, Dick O'brien, Bill Werner, Jay Springsteen, Ted Boody, Wino Willie Forkner, Karl (Big Daddy Rat) Smith, Dot & Earl Robinson, Boot Hill Saloon ... Daytona was a special place with special people. This is the era that made me a life long member & owner !

I went to my 1st bike week just 4 years after this,and many more from there on....the earlier ones were definitely more fun!! Too commercial now (sadly) Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed it!

I remember these years fondly... As an 11, 12, and 13 year old in the late 70s. Our family would drive from Connecticut to West Palm Beach in the Oldsmobile wagon (with the rear facing seat) for a yearly road trip to visit family. The best part the entire drive was between Richmond, Virginia and Daytona, Florida... Dozens of Harley-Davidsons on interstate 95. There was just something magical about the roar of those engines as they passed us by on the highway 🤗🏍️

Almost cried, the 70's were my teenage years and it was the last great decade before everything went to shit!! Plus I didn't see a single obese person what the hell happened to people!!

@robertglancy4474

4 жыл бұрын

Proliferation of fast food places and people deciding that's easier then actually cooking for themselves. I grew up in the 70's too and hardly ever eat fast food or drink soda's and I am still close to my weight in high school. If anything's put some weight on me is probably my fondness for beer.

@kelleenmurray1689

4 жыл бұрын

Amen me too!! That was the best yrs of my life!!!

@599Dan

4 жыл бұрын

I know you mean I grew up in the mid 70s and 80s it was great we had no cell phones and we just rode our bikes all over the place played baseball and football, we just spent most of our time outside with one another enjoying.

@UncleRobsGarage

4 жыл бұрын

I can relate my harley was a kick only back then.

@MrJoshlemons

4 жыл бұрын

Low paying cubicle jobs with poisonous food.

You didn’t see so many ME TOO’s back in the day

@Tynogood

4 жыл бұрын

Don't worry it's coming lmao 😂

THIS IS BRILLIANT

Cool video! Kinda weird not seeing anyone with a phone or taking pictures with their phones.

When people actually rode there motorcycle to Daytona

@warpnin3

4 жыл бұрын

Yes.. They actually rode their bikes there..

@connorevs1315

4 жыл бұрын

Eric Simpson dude have you even actually ridden to Daytona yourself? The motorcycle traffic is crazy on the way there off of I-95, yeah there are some dudes who trailer a few different bikes In and out but no shame in it, they got a few toys that they love so much that they can’t choose one. If all of us could ever be so lucky. Personally I only live an hour and a half south of Daytona so I can choose a different bike every day

@ericsimpson1176

4 жыл бұрын

@ my first year was 84 rode from Houston in Feb. Still below freezing in the Florida panhandle at night..in 94 I bought a new fat boy in Boston and rode to Daytona in Feb then to Houston but that was when I was a "real man" but its funny now I think about it often and laugh...glad I did it, would Never do it agin....one night I fell asleep in a rest stop bathroom floor under the hand dryer,,every few minutes I would reach up a hit the button on the had dryer trying to get some heat....🤣

@crforfreedom7407

4 жыл бұрын

Back when men were men and women's tats were actually 100% their own.....

@aliciadishman

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah people started trailerin,' park trailer and truck or van at hotel or camp site and then rode to town and saloon. Profiling...

I had a chopper I built on a Honda 750 four. The only item from the stock bike was the motor and wiring harness. Candy apple red and chrome all over. Great machine. Beautiful women, more natural, no eyelashes that were 1 inch long. Halter tops, no bras, and a lot of great times that I remember as clear as day.

Very cool! Thanks

Wow. Takes me WAY back- this is the year my wife & I got married & rode from MD to Bike Week for our honeymoon.

@aliciadishman

2 жыл бұрын

MD here as well. 1977, 78 and 79, then 1983. Riding in rain, high on cocaine lol Annual date of septum sores, brain damage and 'greens'. Made it out alive, regenerated brain cells, dunno how I did it, giggles...

I'm glad Willie was there. I'm glad they created the Softail line.

I was there 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1983.

Back when PC wasn't a thing and people talked and enjoyed each others company!And you could have fun without going to jail!Now look at America!!!!

@Biker758210

3 жыл бұрын

AND No Cell Phones.

Very cool. Something Daytona bike week hasn't been in years

@m.f.m.67

10 ай бұрын

Sad but true.

Awesome video!

...just great!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

Just to imagine that most of the people we see here are now on social security LoL

@MrJeepmarine

3 жыл бұрын

Or dead, that's what I was thinking. I was 5 years old in 78.

Love this vid.

I was here in 1978 too. Went with to there couples. At least two of the six are now dead 10 years or more.

Love it

Ahhh...make America great again. What an awesome time! Those were real choppers!

Take me back...

Thanks for sharing this awesome video

All those old Shovels. They'd be worth a mint today.

Thanks for the great vids! I've seen a couple of your videos, and they're all real good! GOOD JOB! Brings back some wonderful memories.

Wow times have changed ,now it's a trailer hauling factor from home to Daytona. I miss the ole Daytona ride your bike not trailer it

Great to see some of the motorcycling legens, Dot and Earl Robinson, I'm thinking that's Vaughn Beals at around the 3min mark, and Jay Springsteen, great great vid, I loved it,

The girls seemed more real and more appealing back then.

Use to go here in the 70's

Wish it was 1978.!

@kelleenmurray1689

4 жыл бұрын

tommy black yessir I graduated '78

@georgeperkins4171

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. And that i was 21 like i was in 78. You "young uns" have fun now. Youll turn around and you over the hill. And guys? Go after all the women you can. I missed so many opportunities.

I was 16 in those days.

"Back In The Day" when owning/riding a HD was more of a true lifestyle than a fashion statement. I love the guy that refers to his Touring Scoot as a, "dresser" ... some long lost / seldom used lingo that is pleasing to the ear. Also nice to see people milling around admiring each others home built/garage stylings rather than milling around a burn-out pit.

How did they find out about this place without google?!?!?

Kept my '78 in the kitchen

Classy Classic

More things change more they stay the same. Harley is timeless

@tomb70

4 жыл бұрын

Um.... Harley is failing because it never marketed to younger generations and theyre customer base is selling baggers for coffins. Sorry dude :(

@281sTravel

4 жыл бұрын

@@tomb70 ...Well your understanding of Harley is shit at best! Harley has marketed and made several different models for the younger demographic. And they don't buy them! Try again!

@1978JK

4 жыл бұрын

@@281sTravel yeah they're to fuckin expensive.

@watermusic711

4 жыл бұрын

Harley is king of world universe of eternal jesus of christ

I met my first real girlfriend in '78 , still think of her to this day 😔

Long low and mean🤘🏻

3.06- Triumph chop ;)

I’m pretty sure there was some damn good music back in 78 why they didn’t use Any of it I don’t know. But this was a damn good documentary the last bike week I went to was 2006 it was 500,000 motorcycles there

Can you upload the record LP of the songs from this film to youtube.

In the days when only a few rode baggers......

@1jasonover

4 жыл бұрын

yes!

@ericsimpson1176

4 жыл бұрын

Now they trailer baggers

I would love to find one of those rare XLCR's. It didn't sell. Americans weren't into café racers but that became a very coveted bike. Still though I was only a kid back then but I would have rather had a Norton Commando or a Kawasaki Z1. Don't get me wrong, I like Harleys. If I bought one back then it would have been a stripped down sportster. The blacked out look was still another 35 years into the future though.

Those were the days 💚🤘. 🏍💨

Wino Willie at 9.07

Was that Jay Springsteen? Damn.

These retro helmets are coming back . bell bullitt and bitwilt gringos.

"HaRlEy DaViDsoN fer mae" The future is now, old man lol

This is Hilarious and highly edited notice no one is smoking and in 1978 everyone was smoking cigarettes

I found photos of my late mothers apt specifically living room in the early 70s and in the picture was two custom Harley rigid long forks a baby deer and a hookah and random bongs! All I know is I was born in the wrong era early 80s blah!! Lol

Boozefighters. Legendary!

when young people riding into Daytona.

anyone know the name of the song starting at 7:40. ?

I bet ya the guys at Daytona here in this film are at Daytona right now, at least the ones that are still around

I wanna go back 😔😑 I rode in last year. But the virus has put me in some money problems so I couldn’t go this year 😑

Not so harley Davison centered now, any motorcycle is ok

This has got to be some kind of Harley promotional thing....It's to hokey to be anything else. The music....lol

@earnestmetz9834

4 жыл бұрын

Obviously it was made as a promotion in 1978. I suppose something that old would seem hokey to someone who probably wasn't around then.

@mr.gutwrench

4 жыл бұрын

chicka bow wow, chicka bow wow...

My head is spinning! Talk about " Americana" at its best! the attendees are innocent and real. the video is SO real and the idea that someone can drive to Daytona, camp on the beach and enjoy a gathering, is, Unfortunately, SO...SO gone!

When was the first Daytona Beach Bike Week ?

@stevomcsteve9492

4 жыл бұрын

1836...

I was 18 and it was a beutiful time , things were simple no cellphone you needed to pay 10¢ for a phone call and TV shows had a life lesson and no looters no wars and we used to respect our Presidents Republicans or Democrat

Great archive! Those were the AMF years. I was there in Daytona ‘78. Traffic was stopped at most intersections waiting for some dude to kick start his Milwaukee antique to life. Harley...last to adopt electric start, last to adopt lights on, first to get a tariff put on foreign bikes over 700cc. Today the owners remove their mufflers to make it “safe” for them. Selfish and sorta chicken, ya think? Now Harley is complaining about tariffs. Yep, I ride a Honda today. I love to ride, I don’t live to ride.

@MyDyerMaker

4 жыл бұрын

I love to read butthurt comments. Keep crying.

@rozd618

4 жыл бұрын

I used to ride a honda whenever I was 14 and couldn't afford a harley. If you eat all your veggies maybe one day you'll grow to be a big boy too.

@TUCKANDROLLE

4 жыл бұрын

D'yer Maker LED ZEPPELIN !

@kurtfoulke5130

3 ай бұрын

Do you think there would be a Daytona Bike Week without Harley-Davidson ? You may not ride to live, but we do ! Like your mother always said " if you don't have anything good to say - Shut The F**k Up"

Rad

✨Collector !!!

Most people were in good shape.

people are slimmer back in those days.

@TUCKANDROLLE

4 жыл бұрын

Hai Pham less pre fab food, before microwaves

@kurtfoulke5130

3 ай бұрын

I sure was 😢

Is motorman in this video?

Its funny how "amf" is nowhere to be seen. They still owned hd the and the quality was the pits.

@maxboas3509

4 жыл бұрын

anti motorcycle federation = amf

@watermusic711

4 жыл бұрын

Amf was the most reliable motorcycle ever made on earth

@kurtfoulke5130

3 ай бұрын

The entire video was AMF, I still have a small fleet of them & they run & ride just fine 40 - 50 years later.

Dave Despain !

@kurtfoulke5130

3 ай бұрын

One of my true Motorcycle Heros 👍

That looks like David Letterman @ 1:59

The biggest difference between then and now is shame. There no shame left in this world. If a politician got busted on a drug or corruption charge they wouldn’t be voted back in to office. They would be hiding somewhere, there friends and supporters would dwindle to nothing.

I was there in 1976, 77, 78 , but I just don't remember it looking like this. I got alcohol poisoning in the bar on the pier drinking beer from the gas pump.Maybe why I don't remember it so well.

Kawasaki bead testing jet skis there. They were even released yet.

I think HD will struggle to continue as a bike company but they may survive as a T shirt manufacturer

I think I was still a virgin in 78.

@kelleenmurray1689

4 жыл бұрын

David Autrey Lol not me I was trying to hump anything I could. 😂

I was born into the wrong time I am 35 years old wish I was born in the sixties. Everything today sucks no taiste or real class. All the women are cheaters with no realness to them. The 40's 50's and sixties were the great years to be alive

@kelleenmurray1689

4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the '70's

@DS_Dronezone

4 жыл бұрын

Taste?

@BEEBEE159

4 жыл бұрын

@John Those "women" in the video were hoes back then, too. You don't think they were cheaters?

@user-sk1hg4jm1v

2 жыл бұрын

@@BEEBEE159 очень красиво сказано привет из России 🤣👍

FAR OUT!!!!!

It’d be cool bike culture was like this still. Sportsters weren’t “girl bikes”, people knew how to party, people didn’t look like Sons of Anarchy cosplayers…when did it all go so wrong?!

@StonerViking420

Жыл бұрын

Everybody and their brother owns a Harley now. Work in an office all week wearing a suit then put on a leather jacket, saddle up the $30,000.00 bike and play outlaw for the weekend. They didn't like the real deal so the big rallies became family friendly events where 1500 vendors just want to sell you some culture.

Taking a girl to Daytona is like taking a hamburger to a steak house.

People nowadays think they have to ride a bagger to travel thousands of miles.

Any transvestites reading stories to little children back then?

@osoriocorey

4 жыл бұрын

Wtf

No smart phones

The bikes were badass, the music was jivesucka horrible. Last I heard anything about Daytona, I heard people weren't going like they did. And the cops like messing with people.

Awesome video! Horrible music... sounded like a crappy commercial music

This is a Really TAME showing of Main St Bike Week '78. Too bad. Nice to see Willie G, I remember that Dresser of lights. I always lived near Main, till politics took ALL the good out of that area 1981. Today its a bad joke. Thank greedy local politicians, now, you PAY for a FREE Beach. Main St is dead until Bike weeks now, unlike then when it thrived year round- all very $ad,

The HD cult!

1978. America had about 10 half way decent years left

The music is really bad. Like amf hired the artist to make some real "cool" music.

No shitty "I have daddy issues" tattoos.

Its amazing how the Harley Davidson's of 1978 looking very similar in design to the 2020. Typical Harley, they only thing that changes in price

the same exact people seen here are still the only customers... except now geriatric

@kurtfoulke5130

3 ай бұрын

What's your point ?

Incredible Video. Some parts of Daytona still look the same . The 1970’s are gone forever. America has changed thanks too immigration policies created by the Democratic Party. One thing you can say about the biker community they have common sense and they’re all Republicans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

The original butt buddies, what every Harley rider today aspires to be lol

Bike look the same; people not so much. Fatter, with no helmets...