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Who was your idol in 78 and who did you look up to?

I think it was just looking at the best rider and trying to understand them. Vesterenen was won I’d look to. I’d ask the others and try and understand what it was that were doing that I wasn’t doing. I spent some time with Charles Coultard. I spent some time with Vesterenen and the Lampkins as well. These were like mentors to me. They were still team members and we would practise together.

2014 Bernie Schreiber Interview

World Champion Bernie Schreiber relaxes , back at home. Yep - Bernie used to love bunny hopping.

2014 Bernie Schreiber Interview photo len weed

At the end of the day they would rather see me win than someone from Montesa win. That’s how I felt as well. I'd prefer to see Vesterenen than Ulf Karllson or who ever was on Montesa.

And when you were growing up was there an idol that you had in the trials World. The guy whose poster was up on your bedroom wall?

I heard so much about Sammy Miller and he was always like you know , the man to beat. I'd never really seen Sammy Miller in his hay day. Like I said, I think everyone was as good as they are at that time. At that time Sammy was top man.

Charles Coutard ,Manuel Soler and Bernie out for a days practising.

2014 Bernie Schreiber Interview

Later I was very good. If you look at the old video’s people might think “Oh I could do that” but they don’t realise the equipment we had back then and the conditions we had to deal with. I'm sure Sammy Miller back in those real early days was really unbelievable.

Was he an idol?

I think my biggest motorcycle idol that ever remained for me was Steve McQueen, just because of the movie “On Any Sunday”.

2014 Bernie Schreiber Interview photo bruce brown productions

For me as a kid he was my hero and my dream rider. This was very inspiring to me. I remember seeing Malcolm Smith at a Riding park .He was doing a wheelie and then doing some different things that was impressive.

2014 Bernie Schreiber Interview photo bruce brown productions

In Enduro there was Steve Mcqueen and this was the poster that I had on my wall. Steve McQueen from On Any Sunday on a Husqvarna.

Did you ever meet Steve McQueen?

No, I wish I would have. As a kid that movie really inspired me. I like his movies as well. The On Any Sunday movie was my favourite motorcycle movie for sure.

You were in 2nd “On Any Sunday” film.

Where was that filmed?

That was on a waterfall just behind the house where I grew up. Where the mountains come down they have the water ways .That's also where we did the photo of the book with Len weed. It's the same river area. That's where I did most of my training.

Bernie's book cover photo location

Here in the hills above Bernie's home is the exact location of this famous photo. Other photos by Len Weed at the same location show the bridge above Bernie's head, as he rides over rocks in the stream below.

2014 Bernie Schreiber Interview

A big Thank you to mark Oldar , the USA's Cagiva importer who drove a whole 320 miles + trail riding to get these photos of the exact location of the Bernie cover photo. Thank you Mark.

Bernie book cover photo location today

2014 Bernie Schreiber Interview

This large waterfall are is featured in an image on Page 99. Although cement has been poured over it to make it smooth.

2014 Bernie Schreiber Interview

Now , please just take a moment to watch one of the most iconic motorcycle movies ever made.

I find this movies quite emotional. Im sure i'm not the only one. I can be crying like a baby at several points in the film.

Every time i watch Bernie's slow motion sequence ,it literally brings me to tears and makes the hairs on my neck tingle. Now that's strange. I need a shrink , specialising in Retro trials :)

Here are some freeze frames from "On Any Sunday II"

2014 Bernie Schreiber Interview photo bruce brown productions

Isnt that the coolest riding gear ever made ?. I think so :).

2014 Bernie Schreiber Interview photo bruce brown productions

This is the exact filming location of Bernie's sequence in One Any Sunday II

This filming for On any Sunday II was carried out high in hills above Bernie's home.

Careful searching has revealed the actual section location . The filming was carried out in the water catchment concrete valleys that were installed to divert water to the Reservoir and prevent the water reaching the town.

I cant tell you how many times i watched the On any Sunday II video to compare it exactly with this this location. It is spot on. I am already engaging with locals to get some close up 2014 section photos.

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A big thank you to former US Cagiva importer Mark Oldar for going out of his way to contact me with this information.
Mark also used top pracise in this area as did Lane Leavitt and others . You'd not be bothering anyone here as you are high up in the hills. The Park Ranger would come along and check that you had a spark arrester but that was all. Mark was fortunate to watch the On any Sunday filming but was surprised how little of it made it to the final cut.

This aerial shot is a zoom out from the above aerial shot.

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