March 9, 2022 By Mitch Boehm AMA Motorcycle Hall of Famer and motorcycling legend Malcolm Smith turns 81 years of age today, and as we all smile and nod our heads and think back to ‘Ol’ Malcolm’ in Bruce Brown’s classic On Any Sunday documentary, we don’t think of an
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June 7, 2021 By Mitch Boehm These days, when you go to Widowmaker, it’s hard to imagine the crazy scene portrayed so well in AMA Hall of Famer Bruce Brown’s On Any Sunday documentary. In place of scrub, dirt, dust, haphazardly-parked cars and motorcycles of all kinds, there are nicely
Read moreBy Mitch Boehm When choosing an appropriate cover story for the April edition of our new-and-improved American Motorcyclist magazine, it was pretty hard to ignore America’s favorite-son motorcyclist Malcolm Smith. For one thing, Ol’ Malcolm turned 80 on March 9, which is in many ways just as hard to grasp
Read moreBy Mitch Boehm Photos courtesy Joe Bonello and Smith family archives That’s right…Malcolm turned 80 on March 9, which is just about as hard to wrap your arms around as is the realization that On Any Sunday – which he starred in alongside Steve McQueen and Mert Lawwill – debuted
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