Cool motorcycle scenes are part and parcel of adventurous movies. If a screenwriter needs to cool up the film or describe how badass a protagonist is, he simply adds a motorcycle. However, throughout the history of filmmaking motorcycles have been used both perfectly and horribly. Below is the list of such moments.
CHiPs is a lightweight action crime drama released in 1977, which includes elements of comedy. The film is a blend of cops, motorcycles and Southern California.
I cannot but mentioning Streethawk. The show was about a police officer and former amateur dirt-bike racer named Jesse Mach, who was secretly chosen to test a top-secret project—an all-terrain attack motorcycle capable of speeds in excess of 300 per hour. In the pilot episode they used Honda XL500 trailbike, then in the episodes of 1984 it was Honda XR500s.
Easy Rider presents two bike-riding drug dealers. The motorcycles for the film were designed by chopper builders Ben Hardy and Cliff Vaughs. It is curious that the motorcycles had been stolen before the final campfire scene was shot. That is why they are not visible in the background as in the other campfire scenes.
Raising Arizona is a famous comedy directed by Coen Brothers and starring Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman and others. How did they introduce “The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse” to the viewers? No doubt, they pluged him in a motorcycle.
Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s animated masterpiece Akira uses the backdrop of Neo-Tokyo to introduce a post apocalyptic world of futuristic bike gangs. Akira uses animation to introduce us to a world of physics that stretch the imagination to limits of what the future of motorcycles may hold. The bile from the film has turned into a sensation.
To diversify ‘The Matrix’, the screenwriter seated Trinity on a Ducati 996 and made one of the best motorcycle stunt works in the history of filmmaking.











