While researching yesterday’s Nimbus Sport, I stumbled upon a Danish short film featuring said bike and I think it’s worth sharing.
If you’re like me and you don’t speak Danish, here’s a short synopsis of what you’re about to see. From My Only Great Passion: The Life and Films of Carl Dreyer “The story is simplicity itself: a young couple on a motorcycle race across the countryside in order to catch a ferry. As they near their destination, their speed constantly increasing, they are finally run off the road by an old car that has been following them across the countryside. They do indeed “catch the ferry” – in two coffins rowed to the ferry by an old man in a small boat.” Presumably this old man is a reference to Charon, the ferryman of Hades?
The film was created for the Road Safety Council of Denmark to promote safe driving/not speeding on highways.