To this day, I always ride in Farah flannels and Tuf shoes.

that was "quite a lot of traffic"

When did they have motorcycles that allowed you to take your right hand off the accelerator, and still keep going?

Though knowing the Matchless G2 that he's riding the throttle could be stuck. I love the Triumph Tigeress scooter at the end, too.
The British Pathe website has tons of stuff like this
http://www.britishpathe.com/
Be careful,you can lose 10 hours looking at the clips quite easily.take my word for it

were there really that few cars, or was this filmed a 5 in the morning?

No parked cars - so no yellow lines or other bossy signals. Ah, let's go back there, it was great.

Says it's from 1965. Only one year to World Cup glory. I'm with the Captain.Let's go back.
Danny Baker once did a show where he pretended it was 1965. It was a joy.