If You're in it, You're in it to the Limit - Bikies

This notorious film looks at '70s bikie culture, focusing on Auckland's Hells Angels (the first Angels chapter outside of California). These not-so-easy riders — with sideburns and swastikas and fuelled by pies and beer — rev up the Triumphs, defend the creed, beat up students, cruise on the Interislander, provoke civic censure, and attend the Hastings Blossom Festival. After a funeral, Aotearoa's sons of anarchy head back on the highway. Bikies was banned by the NZBC — possibly due to the public urination, lane-crossing, chauvinism and pig's head activity.

It does something to you that’s for sure. You get on a bike on a nice warm sort of a day and you start going pretty quick ... you get a feeling that’s something rare I think. You're free, you’ve got the wind around you and all that sort of carry on.

– A Hells Angel member, responding to an off-screen prod that riding a bike is almost a sexual feeling

Key Cast & Crew

John Charles

Director

Michael Scott-Smith

Producer

Ian McDonald

Composer

Don Cunningham

Sound

Peter Janes

Camera

Jamie Selkirk

Editor