QUIZ 9May2007

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

Make

Model

Application

Supposed riders name

Actual riders name

 

[Josh]

Make

Model

Application

Supposed riders name

Actual riders name

 

 

1 BSA

2 A65 Lightning

3 Killing Bond

4 Fiona Volpe

5 ?

[mike wilson]

5 Lucianna Paluzzi

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

5 Lucianna Paluzzi

 

Lucianna Paluzzi is the actress who played Fiona Volpe. Neither one of them actually rode the bike.

 

You didn't think it was going to be easy did you?

[raz]

 

Lucianna Paluzzi is the actress who played Fiona Volpe. Neither one of them actually rode the bike.

 

You didn't think it was going to be easy did you?

5. @#$$#! Ziker

 

Edit: the forum seems to not like his first name. It's D i c k. I would be pretty pissed if I were him and saw my name censored.

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

5. @#$$#! Ziker

 

Edit: the forum seems to not like his first name. It's D i c k. I would be pretty pissed if I were him and saw my name censored.

 

Perhaps it is because the forum knows the right answer and that is not it?! I do notice that IMDB doesn't show the name of the rider my info says was the actual rider.

[raz]

 

Perhaps it is because the forum knows the right answer and that is not it?! I do notice that IMDB doesn't show the name of the rider my info says was the actual rider.

OK, then. Chris Vincent! That was really hard to find.

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

OK, then. Chris Vincent! That was really hard to find.

 

You just might be right except I found information that he only demonstrated the bike but didn't ride it in the movie. I'll save my info for a bit til you have a chance to delve further!

 

A clue. A famous Scotsman in a top hat and tails.

[badmotogoozer]

Sean Connery! Sean Connery!

 

Are there any other famous Scotsmen?

 

Rj

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

 

Are there any other famous Scotsmen?

 

Rj

 

Check yer closest bar. He's assuredly there! Trust me!

 

 

Sorry I missed you Sunday. Forgot about another prior engagement - or at least I tried to forget!

[raz]

 

You just might be right except I found information that he only demonstrated the bike but didn't ride it in the movie. I'll save my info for a bit til you have a chance to delve further!

 

A clue. A famous Scotsman in a top hat and tails.

Man, I give up I've found two or three references clearly saying it was Chris Vincent. That doesn't necessarily mean they are right, but I can't find information on anyone else.

 

I have never spent so much time googling for something so unimportant in my entire life At least today I rode my bike first

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

Man, I give up I've found two or three references clearly saying it was Chris Vincent. That doesn't necessarily mean they are right ........

 

I found pretty much the same info except for one very well written but so far unsubstantiated difference. I so far cannot say you are wrong but then there is still another part of the quiz not answered correctly (ie #3).

[raz]

 

I found pretty much the same info except for one very well written but so far unsubstantiated difference. I so far cannot say you are wrong but then there is still another part of the quiz not answered correctly (ie #3).

Ah, didn't see that. It was used to kill Count Lippe, not Bond.

 

These are the better among my findings on who rode it:

http://d6751420.u103.surftown.dk/Front.html (pick vehicles button to the right, then chose the BSA from Thunderball)

http://www.brooklands-books.com/pages/bsaa50ack.html

[DeBenGuzzi]

so raz h as it right?

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

I think so but I also found this bit of info from a Dutch website that says otherwise. Unfortunately I don't know where the info came from so I guess it would be a point for RAZ - even though i had to give the clue about part 3!!

 

A stylish portrait of Luciana Paluzzi and the famous 007 James Bond Thunderball BSA A 65 L Lightning. Watch the rocket throwers on the side of the fairing. Definitely a James Bond bike…

 

In the 1965 James Bond movie “Thunderball” a BSA was used that was equipped by no less then four rocket throwers on its full fairing, besides having a couple of other special goodies build on it. In the actual movie, the B.S.A.’s rockets were fired in order to kill Spectre Agent, Count Lippy. The Thunderball B.S.A. was quite an interesting looking motorcycle .

 

Even though it is believed that B.S.A. themselves converted the A65L Lightning to Bond specifications, this is not true. The fairing with the rocket launchers were built on the bike by the Pinewood Studios special effects department. The rockets were real. Twin Bowden cables that released pull-out pins, which are usually found on hand grenades, triggered them. Most riding shots in the movie were made on the circuit of Silverstone. Originally however these shoots were planned on the M2 Motorway in England, but rain and even snow prevented the shoot from actually taking place. At Silverstone the crew had to wait for days for the weather to improve. Stuntman Johnny Walker rode the bike in most of the scenes. In the movie he also drove a lookalike B.S.A. mock-up in a lake, making an end to the B.S.A.’s performance in Thunderball. It is often believed that sidecar racing ace and B.S.A. specialist Chris Vincent performed the stunts. This is not true. Vincent was seen in some publicity shots and he fired the rockets once down a quiet country lane.

 

More then one B.S.A. was build and used for Thunderball. Most of them, however, were A10 mock-ups, and some of them did not even run. The one that is seen riding in most of the movie is the machine on the photograph. When the movie was released the B.S.A. went on tour through cinema’s around the world, including the U.S. It drew crowds of movie and motorcycle enthusiasts all over the world, and rightly so. After the movie the B.S.A. was put to rest at the Pinewood Film Studio’s for years while 007’s Aston Martin DB5 on the other hand was auctioned off by Christies.