Coordinated motorcycle performance video from the 1950s

Here's a fantastic motorcycle demo by Italian police in the 1950s.

• [Paul Coleman]

  Reminds me of tractor square dancing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WxyzS0vCME

• [defacebook]

  That made me smile for the first time in 3 days — thanks BoingBoing!

• [zikman]

  what is this incredible music playing?

• [johnocomedy]

  groovy, but i prefer guys doing double back flips while flying fifty feet in the air

• [xaxa]

  Reminds me of the BBCeffort, only this Italian one is much more impressive.

• [Anonymous]

  Reminds me of the RCMP doing this on horse.

• [frankieboy]

  Triumph of the Wheel? Moda Italiana.

• [scifijazznik]

  This is the video that made Kim Jong-Il stroke out.

• [Anonymous]

  Hello Mr Pescovitz,
  thanks for posting those beautiful sequences of sync moto-riding.
  Only, I would like to be pedantic and point out that at 0:11 you can see some officials looking solemnly on, and the third from the left I believe is Giovanni Leone, at the time presidente della Repubblica. If correct, this would date the video between 1971 and 1978, Mr Leone’s period of office.
  I dare say the Corazzieri guards (tall fellows with ornate uniforms, you can see one in the background at 0:11) confirm the presence of a president, and at 0:57 Mr Leone appears again right in the middle of the image, a focus of attention. Not as much as the riders anyway…
  Best regards,
  Ernesto Fontana (not anonymous-just too lazy to register right now)

• [Robbo]

  Reminds me of the scene from Meet John Doe where the fascist industrialist shows off his private army of cops.

• [Phikus]

  Whadoyaknow. Cops are good for something after all.

• [Robbo]

  You can find it on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvvB8jJqrLU – around the 5:00 mark.

• [NidSquid]

  That was completely and utterly fantastic. Thank you Boing Boing, you made my day.