Bike movies? Or Movies with bikes?

[TygerTung]

What are some good bike movies, either about bikes or with some good bike action in them?

Theres mad max, love goose's highway patrol Z1000 with the clipons and rear sets pegs and the massive fairing, anyone have any pictures of this, it's a mean bike.

What others are there? Lets make a list!

[crashe]

"Easy Rider" :2thumbsup

[Fishy]

Cool As Ice!. It has Vanilla Ice in it on his GSX-R1100M that can jump farm fences in a single bound without a ramp :2thumbsup

[onearmedbandit]

Faster - one of the best bike movies/doco's available.
The Long Way Round - tale of two guys (with support vehicles) riding around the world.
Torque - light hearted view of street bike racer culture in the states.
On any Sunday - Never seen it but supposed to be excellent.
Biker Boyz - Light hearted view blah blah blah.
GhostRider 1,2,3 and 4.

[buellbabe]

Torque is hilarious! SOOOO totally unbelievable but hey the stunts are good and Martin Henderson (good kiwi lad) looks hot...

[Zed]

Torque is hilarious! SOOOO totally unbelievable but hey the stunts are good and Martin Henderson (good kiwi lad) looks hot...Yeah many give Torque a hard time but I quite enjoyed it, seen it several times now lol. Best part about it was the Honda 954 that one of Martin's riding buddies rode throughout the film!!! :banana:

[MisterD]

Quadrophenia, and before you flame me into the middle of next week there's some rockers / greasers and their bikes in there as well as the scooters....spot Ray (Henry VIII) Winston in an early appearance as Jimmy's greaser mate

[buellbabe]

Yeah many give Torque a hard time but I quite enjoyed it, seen it several times now lol. Best part about it was the Honda 954 that one of Martin's riding buddies rode throughout the film!!! :banana:

Not that yr at all biased??? LOL

[T.W.R]

* STONE (Z900s & Norton Commando)
* EASY RIDER ( Captain America & Billy Boy)
* HARLEY DAVIDSON & THE MARLBORO MAN ( HD chopper & Kawasaki Zephyr)
* THE GREAT ESCAPE (Triumph pre-unit trophy or similar)
* THE SILVER DREAM (Craig Vetter designed Japper)
* a B grade horror with a Norton Commando ( can't remember the name but its similar in story to 'Christine')

[Motu]

Been done before,but hey,who cares!

I think the bike movies with the biggest impact are the ones we see as a teenager,or first into bikes.The Wild One was banned in NZ when it first came out,so it's impact was lost on that generation of our riders.I was 15 when Easyrider came out and used someones licence to get in (R16),a couple of years older when I saw On Any Sunday - they were life changing movies for me.

[Fishy]

There are shitloads of stunt dvds out as well but not sure if you were asking about them or just normal type movies.

How about Chicks Dig Scars that Larriken is selling.....

[buellbabe]

YEAH! T.W.R. I 2nd the vote for "Harley Davidson and the Malboro Man". Highly entertaining
:2thumbsup

[Wolf]

World's Fastest Indian

[imdying]

Was reading an old thread on here earlier... I wonder if the same person that tuned the CBR in Torque also tuned the 215mph Jack Frost beating CBR :lol: :lol:

[onearmedbandit]

Was reading an old thread on here earlier... I wonder if the same person that tuned the CBR in Torque also tuned the 215mph Jack Frost beating CBR :lol: :lol:


I remember that thread, oh the laughs we had!

[bugjuice]

World's Fastest Indian
was gonna say that, so just have to second it instead

[nudemetalz]

Hey what about "CHiPs" ?
Jon and Ponch are so cool....:Police:

(I'm sure you could buy the series on DVD)

[Riff Raff]

Trying to think of movies with bikes in them when one sprang to mind - not a typical biker movie tho. I think it was called Mask - starring Cher - about her son with the deformed face, but set around the biker scene in the states. Good movie - quite sad tho.

[Korea]

Has anyone seen the Hong Kong film "Full Throttle", 1995?

Lots of NSR250 2-stroke madness interweaved with a half-decent storyline and thankfully free of all the cheesey buggary-bollocks of 'Torque' and 'Biker Boyz'.

Here's the plot:
'Joe, a motorcycle street racer who takes part in illegal racing all over Hong Kong one night meets a younger racer, David, and the two become friends. But, David is a professional racer being sponsored by Lau’s estranged dad. Joe wants to prove he’s the best, so he and David go at it until something absolutely awful happens, causing Joe to re-evaluate his life. New star Gigi Leung is the girlfriend who tells Joe not to race again.'

Really fast riding scenes (I heard professional racers actually died in the making of- unconfirmed), and this movie also makes you think; particularly about the pieces that have to get picked up after a tragedy.

I recommend it. Try and download it or something.
(You'll need subtitles though 'cos it's in Chinese/Cantonese/Mandarin???)

[onearmedbandit]

I'll be looking that one up tonight, thanks Korea. (the person, not the country.)

[parsley]

* a B grade horror with a Norton Commando ( can't remember the name but its similar in story to 'Christine')
"I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle"? Sheer genius.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097550/

[parsley]

"I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle"? Sheer genius.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097550/
Oh my God, I just found out this was released on DVD at the end of last year. I'll pick up a copy when I'm back in England next month then have a viewing one night. Trust me - it's a classic. :thud:

[megageoff76]

I know its not a movie, but who remembers the old tv series STREETHAWK?
i know as a kid i was always trting to make my BMX look like this with cardboard etc!

http://streethawk.tvheaven.com/

[White trash]

Streethawk was the shiz back in the day, unfortunately, it's absolutely crap now by comparison.

By the way, 'bout time you started posting some shit in here. Nice bike. You're a homo.

[megageoff76]

Cheers Jimmy, I was waiting for a smart arsed reply from you!

[White trash]

And another thing, Iron Maiden wrote the lyrics in your signature, not that washed up poofter Mustaine.

Welcome to the KB shitslinging fight mate, glad ya could make it.:motu:

[justsomeguy]

I know its not a movie, but who remembers the old tv series STREETHAWK?http://streethawk.tvheaven.com/

We used to get little Toy Motorbikes back in India - was fun:woohoo:

[Big Dave]

We used to get little Toy Motorbikes back in India - was fun:woohoo:

so what's changed? :devil2: :devil2: :devil2: :devil2:

[megageoff76]

Hey Jimmy...

[Jonty]

There is actually a new one out that I rented "biker kings" or something. It was probably the only movie I have ever turned off out of shear boardom. DO NOT HIRE IT

[parsley]

Hey Jimmy...
Surely anything gay is inconceivable?

[megageoff76]

Very true, I just thought it was a funny picture of everyones favourite alien.

Back on topic, I also remember another old school movie with bikes in it called Delta Force...starring Chuck Norris.
"Turning your back to an enemy is ok so long as your bike shoots mortars out of it’s exhaust pipes".

[megageoff76]

Sorry, forgot the pic to back it up. These things would be ace to take out tailgaters!

[Wolf]

Sorry, forgot the pic to back it up. These things would be ace to take out tailgaters!
Is the mod available for all makes and models? I ask purely for the sake of curiosity :whistle:

[Zed]

The Motorcycle Diaries is supposed to be worth watching, can anyone recommend its viewing?

[Zed]

Off the cuff:

Terminator 2, Arnie on his Harley doing jumps off bridges.

Mission Impossible 2, Tom (that poser eh Indy) on his Speed Triple capturing him in slow motion elegance as he twists sideways on his motorcycle, riding on just one tire. He pivots, aims his gun, and fires while a car slides past him.

iRobot, Will blasting his archaic MV into the enemy of rouge robots.

Matrix Reloaded, the mighty black Duke easily evading the enemies.


Isn't it interesting how most modern blockbuster movies feature at least one *cool* motorcycle doing high speeds/stunts and subsequently turn it into a smouldering pile of rubble, how sad. :(

[hazard02]

There is actually a new one out that I rented "biker kings" or something. It was probably the only movie I have ever turned off out of shear boardom. DO NOT HIRE IT

Avoid "Murdercycle" at all costs. The title implies cheesy hilarity but the entire film just made me sad.

[Drunken Monkey]

Where's Indy and his tribute to the Cooler King?

*whistles theme from 'The Great Escape'*

Steve will make that jump one day, you just have to watch the film enough times...

[pritch]

There is a new "bike" movie being made in the UK "Freebird". It's a fictional story about three motorcycle couriers on a weekend trip to Wales with a load of marijuana.

Since it apparently makes several references to Quadrophenia, and one of the actors (Phil Daniels) is in both, it would seem appropriate to watch the mod movie first.

[larriken]

Off the cuff:

Terminator 2, Arnie on his Harley doing jumps off bridges.

Mission Impossible 2, Tom (that poser eh Indy) on his Speed Triple capturing him in slow motion elegance as he twists sideways on his motorcycle, riding on just one tire. He pivots, aims his gun, and fires while a car slides past him.

iRobot, Will blasting his archaic MV into the enemy of rouge robots.

Matrix Reloaded, the mighty black Duke easily evading the enemies.


Isn't it interesting how most modern blockbuster movies feature at least one *cool* motorcycle doing high speeds/stunts and subsequently turn it into a smouldering pile of rubble, how sad. :(

ooooh, but doesn't it drive you nuts when the kids xr in Term 2 makes two smoke noises!

[Wolf]

ooooh, but doesn't it drive you nuts when the kids xr in Term 2 makes two smoke noises!
Never understood why they bother having mics on their gear when filming if the foley artists are going to dub over the sounds later. They did a similar thing in Spiderman when "Flash" Thompson turned up in his new wheels and took MJ for a spin - the engine noise is from a completely different car.

Fair enough if the vehicle is the Batmobile and they want it to sound like some weird prototype or they've set it in the future and they want the cars to sound like they're electirc but for contemporary movies WTF is wrong with just getting some bugger to drive up in the appropriate vehicle for the image they want to convey and drive off? Why does Hollywood have to fuck everything around? "Erm, it's a trail bike, it's supposed to make this sort of noise, fix it up." :tugger:

[Zed]

ooooh, but doesn't it drive you nuts when the kids xr in Term 2 makes two smoke noises!Haha, yeah they do that alot in movies and ruin the true sound by replacing it with something high and tinny, obviously the movie-makers aren't real bikers lol. :blink:

[Wolf]

Haha, yeah they do that alot in movies and ruin the true sound by replacing it with something high and tinny, obviously the movie-makers aren't real bikers lol. :blink:
Movie makers aren't even real people.

[ZeroIndex]

what about X-Men, Wolverine takes that bike with the ULTIMATE SUPER TURBO NOS system aka: fast-forward on the dvd player. what bike was that?

[HenryDorsetCase]

um, Mad Max?

[pritch]

The Motorcycle Diaries is supposed to be worth watching, can anyone recommend its viewing?

Yeah, I watched and enjoyed it. I wouldn't have thought of it particularly as a motorcycle movie but at least there is a bike in it. For a while anyway.

It's really about the experiences that influenced Che Guevara to take the path that he did politically.

Definitely worth a look

[TLDV8]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073709/

http://sepnet.com/rcramer/biker.htm

http://motorcycles.about.com/cs/vendorvid/tp/classicvideos.htm

[Krayy]

Fled:
Dumb ass bike chase where a pair of Duc 916s can't outrun a cadillac

Charlies Angels -Full Throttle:
Dumb ass MX race scene

The World is Not Enough:
Dumb ass hong kong rooftop chase with Beemer vs Helicopter (actually this isnt so much dumb ass as un-freakin-believable)

xXx:
DUMB ass MX chase through a columbian drugs factory

[Wolf]

In Tomb Raider there's the scene in her gargre and a brief scene out on the road involving a bike.

Think it might be "Never Say Never Again" Bond movie where he has a Q-Branch motorcycle...

[APPLE]

4 me?''no limits''1935 classic''shuttleworth snap''george formby TT racer?so funny man?

[dawnrazor]

Never understood why they bother having mics on their gear when filming if the foley artists are going to dub over the sounds later. They did a similar thing in Spiderman when "Flash" Thompson turned up in his new wheels and took MJ for a spin - the engine noise is from a completely different car.

Fair enough if the vehicle is the Batmobile and they want it to sound like some weird prototype or they've set it in the future and they want the cars to sound like they're electirc but for contemporary movies WTF is wrong with just getting some bugger to drive up in the appropriate vehicle for the image they want to convey and drive off? Why does Hollywood have to fuck everything around? "Erm, it's a trail bike, it's supposed to make this sort of noise, fix it up." :tugger:

Due to the restraints of sound mixing and sound design, certain pitches and sounds just don't work, I can imagine a shitty 2 stroke at full tilt is one of those, also in the scenes where the kids are in close up, the bike is on a low rider trailer being pulled behind a truck, so the engine wouldn't even be on, the other takes are stunt people, and location sound probably wasn't recorded as it wouldn't be a main camera unit and unlikely to have a sound recordist. As for replacing the engine sound, you need something that won't compete with the dialogue or music, and the sounds of cars, bikes etc are low on the list of things we need to keep real! Most films are trying to tell a story after all, and if you get distracted by a horrible sound, you lose the audience, its that simple. Take it from one that knows these things

[Wolf]

ooooh, but doesn't it drive you nuts when the kids xr in Term 2 makes two smoke noises!
On the XT225 forum, some observant bugger noticed that in "Deep Impact", the bike on which young Elijah Wood flees the cometary destruction is an XT225.

I have the movie on VHS but the kids destroyed the VHS player so I bought it on DVD (it was already on my "Must buy on DVD" list and it was in the cheap bin so I'm not totally mad) and checked it out - sure 'nuff, it's an XT225.

Being mindful of larriken's post, I paid especial attention to the sound effects and was pleased to hear the sound of a 4-stroke single - at least one movie got it right!

Also good to see that young Mr Wood was actually riding the thing through the traffic jam - clearly visible and identifiable. Sure, they would have switched to stunt riders for other, gnarlier, bits of it but at least Elijah was willing to ride it through the easier bits rather than have closeups on him against a bluescreen interspersed with distance shots of a stunt double.

[McJim]

Black Rain's got a bit of bike action in it - street/dockyard race at the beginning and a bike chase through mud at the end. Blade 2 has one bike scene.

The Island where Euan MacGreggor is asked "what was that?" when a bike drives past and he says "I don't know.....but I want one."

[Wolf]

The Island where Euan MacGreggor is asked "what was that?" when a bike drives past and he says "I don't know.....but I want one."
You'd think he'd know, considering he rode one from the UK to New York...
:nya:

[Shadows]

A big dredge.

I was reminded the other night about a movie with Charlie Sheen in it called Fixing The Shadow, or Beyond The Law (depending on what part of the world you are in).
Typical "undercover cop infiltrates gang but becomes their friend and finds it hard to go through with the bust but it is his job so he has no choice" scenario.
Not too bad a movie though.