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turnenwheels

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Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« on: October 13, 2005, 01:59:26 PM »
Gotta say, Mad Max.  Saw it last night again for the umpteenth time...Takes you back
Its gotta be a cult classic!  Cool cafe's, rad pipes, and burnies!
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Nightrider:  "High powered V8 suicide machine!"
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2005, 04:18:00 PM »
One of my favorite movies with a motorcycle scene is "The Great Escape" with Steve Mcqueen
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2005, 04:23:37 PM »
Quote from: turnenwheels on October 13, 2005, 01:59:26 PM
Gotta say, Mad Max.  Saw it last night again for the umpteenth time...Takes you back
Its gotta be a cult classic!  Cool cafe's, rad pipes, and burnies!
Post : WHAT'S YOUR favorite cycle movie...with quote

Nightrider:  "High powered V8 suicide machine!"
Saw it too. I love that "California Holeshot". I have the DVD in Aussie talk.
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2005, 05:45:45 PM »
When I was very young there was a show on TV tahat resembles Nightrider (with David Hasslehof(?)) but was with a motorcycle...I dont remember the name of it or if it was any good...maybe that is a clue to its quality

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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2005, 06:15:01 PM »
See Einyodeler's thread on Electra Glide in Blue. It was pretty good, at least as much as I recall as a teenager. Buffo, I remember a show called "Then Came Bronson" as a kid. A drifter on a motorcycle but don't remember the bike or the actor. Was that the one you were thinking of?
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2005, 06:23:36 PM »
Quote from: skamania19 on October 13, 2005, 06:15:01 PM
See Einyodeler's thread on Electra Glide in Blue. It was pretty good, at least as much as I recall as a teenager. Buffo, I remember a show called "Then Came Bronson" as a kid. A drifter on a motorcycle but don't remember the bike or the actor. Was that the one you were thinking of?
It was a Harley Sporster (Bronson Bike). I remember the episode where he raced it in a desert scrambles...Christ we would believe anything back then. I bought and built the AMC model of that bike.
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2005, 06:28:37 PM »
Quote from: Buffo the Magnificent on October 13, 2005, 05:45:45 PM
When I was very young there was a show on TV tahat resembles Nightrider (with David Hasslehof(?)) but was with a motorcycle...I dont remember the name of it or if it was any good...maybe that is a clue to its quality

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I remember that show too.  Can't recal the name of it though.
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2005, 10:47:45 AM »
Buffo, for some reason I remember the name being something like supercop or something along those lines. He had a hyperspeed and was dressed in cumputerized armor.

I think there was also one called nighthawk.
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« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2005, 03:14:49 PM »
yeah yeah. Nightrider was with Kit the talking, turbo boosting car. and I think Nighthawk was with a helicopter...and there was another one with a motorcycle...they were all black vehicles...all do gooders...all the same shows with different modes of transportation...

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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2005, 07:58:24 PM »
One of the "Dirty Harry" movies with Clint Eastwood has a cool chase with a couple of '60's Triumphs.
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2005, 08:53:42 PM »
Quote from: jbailey on October 14, 2005, 07:58:24 PM
One of the "Dirty Harry" movies with Clint Eastwood has a cool chase with a couple of '60's Triumphs.

Didn't he also chase some rouge cops on a police Harley? After the one rode off the pier and crashed into the bay, I love it when he looks down and mutters, "Briggs was right.. you guys DO need more practice!"
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2005, 09:06:00 PM »
The television show you're talking about was called "Street Hawk"... one season wonder.

And according to my brother in law, the Dirty Harry movie was Magnum force but with Moto Guzzi's, not Triumphs.  One of the Guzzi's turned into a Triumph for the last scene since they're so lightweight and nimble (and Guzzi's aren't...)
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2005, 08:16:10 PM »
Would I be strung up for mentioning CHiPs? Oops.
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #13 on: October 21, 2005, 07:09:54 AM »
Quote from: Killer Canary on October 20, 2005, 08:16:10 PM
Would I be strung up for mentioning CHiPs? Oops.
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #14 on: October 21, 2005, 07:42:13 AM »
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #15 on: October 22, 2005, 06:23:21 PM »
street hawk...yeah.   

I saw a movie the other day with the livin Balushi(?) brother. he worked in a school and had what looked like a honda rebel...
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #16 on: October 23, 2005, 12:41:08 AM »
Yeah, I remember that movie.  It's called The Principal or something of the like.
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #17 on: October 23, 2005, 06:12:07 PM »
Yeah, yeah...that's it...I dont like Honda Rebels...especially the 250 Rebel
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #18 on: October 23, 2005, 08:38:16 PM »
There's a guy that parks one on campus in the bike parking area... it's so TINY compared to all the other bikes around it.  Even my 650 dwarfs it.  Funny thing is, the guy that rides it is almost 6' tall!
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #19 on: October 24, 2005, 07:38:18 PM »
"silver dream racer" or "silver racer" or some other such title having to do with a futuristic looking... you guessed it... silver motorcycle

and the kawi that tom cruise rides in "top gun" epitomizes 80's rockets.  the high speed burn next to the jet fighter taking off as he shakes his fist at it also epitomizes the 80's  :D
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #20 on: October 28, 2005, 01:15:30 PM »
Pretty cool scene from T2 Gotta love the tough!
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #21 on: November 01, 2005, 09:28:04 AM »
 "Purple Rain" That was one bad ass CB450 Prince had. ::)
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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #22 on: November 08, 2005, 09:41:41 AM »
back in the 80's there was a movie...

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i had a YZ 250 yamaha then.

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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #23 on: November 08, 2005, 09:48:23 AM »
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The television show you're talking about was called "Street Hawk"... one season wonder.

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Re: Cool movies involving motorcycles:
« Reply #24 on: November 08, 2005, 01:22:03 PM »
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