This 1970s Charles Cahill and Associates film discusses safe driving for motorcyclists, and it features shots of a number of different bikes riding on freeways, dirt roads, and along residential streets, as well as footage of crash tests conducted by the UCLA’s Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering. The film opens with shots of people driving cars, motorcycles, and trucks on Southern California’s freeways, highways, and streets. Footage of traffic is spliced with shots of a cemetery. Police officers ride motorcycles down a road. Two men ride what appear to be Honda Scrambler motorcycles on a highway. There are shots of other people riding different motorcycles. A man rides a motorcycle on a freeway next to a large truck (03:12). A group of cyclists, one with a jacket saying “Badgers MC” on it, wait at a stop light. A crash-test dummy on a motorcycle hits the side of a car during crash tests conducted by UCLA’s Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering (03:47). A man puts a helmet onto a dummy cyclist and the dummy and bike crash into a car. Slow-motion footage shows the dummy crashing into the car on different sizes of motorcycles. Men and women attend motorcycle safety school (06:07); the driving students put on their helmets and gloves. A student sits on a Yamaha bike (06:48). Other bikes featured in the footage from the driving school include a Suzuki. The students ride their motorcycles through several cones courses. A driver rides his what appears to be another Honda Scrambler on a freeway (07:48). Another driver rides what appears to be a Harley Davidson down a street in a commercial district (08:14). The film shows short clips of various people riding bikes through different kinds of traffic. People ride motorcycles on a dirt path (10:00). Several bikers with “Warriors” shirts ride on a highway (10:22). A cyclist navigates a road rife with potholes. A cyclist cautiously follows a car around a turn that is wet (11:50). A father and his daughter ride one motorcycle while the mother and a son ride another, leaving their Ford truck with a camper (12:25). The film features more shots of people riding motorcycles. Viewers then see the start of a race on a dirt-bike course (11:30); the racers ride through the course, going off jumps and around banked turns

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