Today in motorcycle history, January 27, 1970

     

  

   

  "A town called Sincere."  Episode #43 of The Mod Squad airs on ABC.  The grooviest gang of television fuzz that ever wore a badge.

  Pete and Linc, while on a peaceful motorcycle trip to Mexico, find themselves detoured by a savage biker gang into a border town and held hostage along with all of the town's residents. The gang refuses to leave until they find out who in the town killed two of their members.  Plenty of groovy, solid, fist-flyin', motorcycle action. 

  The "gang" rides a couple of Triumphs, a Sportster and a badly customized AJS (why?).  One of the members, Chubb, has a super sweet knucklehead chop with upsweep exhaust and apes.  Perfect time piece.  It's 1970 don't forget.

  Michael Cole's military-fort flogging in the 1967 film "Chuka" ranks #15 in the book, "Lash! The Hundred Great Scenes of Men Being Whipped in the Movies".

  Peggy Lipton revealed in her memoir that she had a tryst with Paul McCartney and a "relationship" with Elvis Presley.

  Tige Andrews released a 45 on Tiger Records called "The Modfather" that has a wild looking shovelhead chopper on the sleeve.

  The Fuzz-hating, bad-ass, ex-con "gang" member Chubb is played by Lee De Broux who was, ironically, a cop in the movie Chinatown.

  Kurt, the "prez", is actor Tom Stern who starred as Chuck in "Hell's Angels '69".

  Gregory Sierra appears as a Mexican villager, Zamaron.  Sierra would go on to play the role of Detective Sgt. Chano Amenguale on Barney Miller.  He had a role in Papillon with Steve McQueeen.

  Ivan Dixon, better known as "Kinch" on Hogan's Hero's, wrote an episode of The Mod Squad.