All-time best motorcycle movie moments...

[Tank]

From the NZHerald.co.nz this afternoon:

All-time best motorcycle movie moments, top five:

1. Tomb Raider - Angelina Jolie's sexy heroine races to the rescue
2. The Great Escape - Steve McQueen's chase sequence to the Swiss border
3. Top Gun - Tom Cruise rides to see his new love interest
4. The Matrix Reloaded Keanu Reeves races away from agents into oncoming traffic
5. Terminator 2: Judgement Day - Arnold Schwarzenegger and Edward Furlong are chased by a Terminator.

Agree or no .....

[Headbanger]

worst.list.ever.

Someone needs to be shot.

[MIXONE]

Where's Steve McQueen jumping the fence on the trumpy from The Great Escape.:oi-grr:

[McJim]

Where's Steve McQueen jumping the fence on the trumpy from The Great Escape.:oi-grr:

1/ It's in second place - should be at the top.

2/ Matrix - wasn't it Trinity (not Neo) riding the black 996 in all the traffic?

3/ Black rain - dirt bike chase at the end.

4/ Mission impossible II - the Triumph with road tyres AND knobblies on at the same time

5/ Gumball rally - the poor frozen biker :rofl:

Well that's my top 5 what's yours?

[mitchilin]

This list is crap.

Mad Max has got to have the best moments ever.

FFS some one died doing those stunts.

Even "STONE" was cool.

[zxcvbnm]

similar stuff going on here. http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=74364

Lie huo zhan che aka "Full Throttle" [not to be confused with Charlie's Angel]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113651/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVM2Ugk9zCU

[The Pastor]

the t2 movie bike chase seen was cool. No doubt about it.

[BigG]

Ya missed out easy rider

[PirateJafa]

Baaad list.

No Mad Max, no Easy Rider... hell even Torque should be up there for the sheer over-the-top B-grade-fun factor.

[Magua]

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Motorcycle + sidecar being chased by german motorcyclists.

[peasea]

Ya missed out easy rider


Easy Rider wasn't so much a motorcycle movie as a timepiece, a social observation. To call it a 'motorcycle movie' is to have missed Dennis Hopper's genius and the point. Even he described it as a 'western'. The brilliance of that movie was overlooked (and still is) by so many it's sad. Get over the bikes and look deeper, way deeper.

For ten bucks you can get it on DVD at The Warehouse these days and the DVD version has a doco' on the making. Be enlightened by watching the doco, then re-screen the movie. You get a whole new take on things.

No; don't include Easy Rider in a motorcycle movie list, it's way above that and showed America for what it was and, in so many ways, still is.

[Big Dave]

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[EJK]

Personally I liked the BMW bike chase in the movie Paycheck.

I wonder how the stuntman handled that heavy bike!
And did I mentioned it was done on gravels? (More like a bunch of fist-sized stones!)

[Tank]

After comments to DD in the Indy thread about movies being better on a big screen - I thought I would put out an idea.

I have a decent sized home theatre room at home.

I'd be happy to put on a evening with some of the classic bike movies "Easy Rider" etc.

Hell - we could even watch Full Throttle - just for farts and giggles.

Im based on the North Shore - how many would be interested if I got off my ass and arranged this?

[vifferman]

Mission impossible II - the Triumph with road tyres AND knobblies on at the same time
You forgot the other "Impossible II" bit - Tom Cruise performing a stoppie AND shooting with his right hand, at the same time. :spudwhat:

One of my favourite "motorcycle movie moments" was going to see "On Any Sunday" when it first came out, and watching a cinema full of bikers all leaning from side to side when watching some on-board race footage.

[vifferman]

["Stone" movie clip....]

Which one was you, Big D? :spudwhat:

[short shins]

Malcom, Steve and Mert playing in the Mohave sand dunes On Any Sunday

[Big Dave]

Which one was you, Big D? :spudwhat:

The guy with the Norton, but the white gloves? - ewwwww

[wickle]

Ya missed out easy rider
yeah the chick riding the CB350 Honda

[peasea]

yeah the chick riding the CB350 Honda

What scene was that?
Faaaark, I musta been soooo stoned, I missed it.

[fridayflash]

yeap,definatly midnight in action in 'stone' im having nostalgic thoughts for
sydney now..

[peasea]

yeap,definatly midnight in action in 'stone' im having nostalgic thoughts for
sydney now..

Yeah, Sydney's a great guy isn't he?

[Kornholio]

The old movie 'Battle Truck' and the hero rides the space age dirt bike running it on fuel made from chicken shit... does some nice stunts :D

[Zuki Bandit]

1/ It's in second place - should be at the top.

2/ Matrix - wasn't it Trinity (not Neo) riding the black 996 in all the traffic?

3/ Black rain - dirt bike chase at the end.

4/ Mission impossible II - the Triumph with road tyres AND knobblies on at the same time

5/ Gumball rally - the poor frozen biker :rofl:

Well that's my top 5 what's yours?
Nuff said really.

[PrincessBandit]

Interesting to see Tom Cruise in there a few times. I'm pretty tame and laughed at the bug splat / bird-in-the-face scene in Wild Hogs.
What about the bike race in the Batman movie (Batman and Robin, with Alicia Silverstone as the little girlie racer). Not to mention the stunts in Charlie's Angels........:laugh:
I also enjoyed Eric Lustbader's descriptions of the character Nicholas Linnear's bike races/chases in his books.

[PrincessBandit]

For cool though my money is on Trinity from the Matrix, with Angie a close second.

[CookMySock]

The bike vs truck scene in "Top Secret" where they are fighting over which radio station. LOL.

Haha, how many remember this ?
DB

[Coldrider]

The chick riding the Honda CD175 in 'vanishing point', not a stitch of safety gear.