Item title reads - Motorcycling extraordinary. Speed fiends daringly attempt to ride up roadless hill with gradient of one in three and (rest of title is obscured by timecode). Canada.
A man waves a flag and one of the motorcyclists sets off up the hill, he falls off half way up and people...
Item title reads - Motorcycling extraordinary. Speed fiends daringly attempt to ride up roadless hill with gradient of one in three and (rest of title is obscured by timecode). Canada.
A man waves a flag and one of the motorcyclists sets off up the hill, he falls off half way up and people run to help him. M/S from the side of the hill as various cyclists attempt to make it to the top but fall off, one turns round and the motorcycle shoots away. M/S as one makes it to the top. M/S from the top of the hill as more cyclists shoot over it, one of them stops and his motorcycle shoots out from under him into the crowd who scatter. M/S as another reaches the top and rides off past the camera.
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