ADV motorcycles in movies

Motorcycles often feature in various movies, with adventure often disguised as something else like a road bike, share ones you’ve spotted.

I’ll start with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Raw Deal from 1986. From 5’36” Arnie chases a small bore adventure bike made up like a police bike and sounding like a 4 cylinder through a forest, what make and model is the bike?

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Eddieb Brodie
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2025 years ago

I just discovered this one, Not really an ADV bike but it takes him on adventures.

One Week.

Ben Tyler discovers he has aggressive cancer. On his way home from the Dr Ben buy an old Norton Commando which his neighbour is selling and decides to ride from Toronto to Tofino, British Columbia stopping at landmarks that are both iconic and idiosyncratic on his quest to find meaning in his life.

Eddieb Brodie
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2025 years ago

The Sibirsky Extreme

Eddieb Brodie
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2025 years ago

Eddieb Brodie
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2025 years ago

Megaforce motorcycle scenes

smithallison251
2025 years ago

Great movies! Thanks Ed for sharing. I can spend my spare time watching these movies.

Eddieb Brodie
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2025 years ago

Classic Kiwi made post apocalyptic with a modified Suzuki Trail bike – Battle Truck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24alaWjfmws

Eddieb Brodie
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2025 years ago

In the 2002 movie ‘Paid In Full’ a DR BIG makes an appearance, sounding suspiciously like an inline 4.

https://youtu.be/TRpAyuUo11s?t=788

Eddieb Brodie
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2025 years ago

Chuck Norris rides a rocket launcher equipped DR600 in Delta Force.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8zgBL9BSkg

Eddieb Brodie
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2025 years ago

In Black Rain Michael Douglas chases the bad guy, both on Suzuki TS125’s or similiar that sound like big 4 cylinders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKW4wRDTI6Q

In The Place Beyond The Pines a Honda XR serves as a bank robbers get away vehicle.

The Place Beyond The Pines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONxvny3vBfk

Mortdecai Ural Sidecar chase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk4tuWVB-ho

James Bond – Skyfall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHRLX8jRjq8

Jackie Chan – Operation Condor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8l02AfNoTY

Eddieb Brodie
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2025 years ago

Stallone rides a Yamaha XT in Rambo: First Blood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uo1Xpb2gqc

Eddieb Brodie
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2025 years ago
Eddieb Brodie
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2025 years ago

Tom Cruise pulls another bad motorcycle scene in the latest Mission Impossible franchise installment, Mission Impossible Fallout.

Riding a BMW RnineT Scrambler Tom manages dozens of gear changes riding the wrong around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris while his boxer twin sounds like an inline 4.

https://youtu.be/JfTMHya-LuY

Eddieb Brodie
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2025 years ago

Mile 22 with Mark Wahlberg, the bad guys ride KLR’s and 2 other small bikes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hth4FOHXg6o&t=3800

Eddieb Brodie
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2025 years ago

said:
Tom Cruise pulls another bad motorcycle scene in the latest Mission Impossible franchise installment, Mission Impossible Fallout.

Riding a BMW RnineT Scrambler Tom manages dozens of gear changes riding the wrong around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris while his boxer twin sounds like an inline 4.

https://youtu.be/JfTMHya-LuY

Here’s the full motorcycle chase scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWAlz-YcCRM

Murray Trow
2025 years ago

Back To The Future,,

Eddieb Brodie
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2025 years ago

This movie’s real name is Mechanical Violator Hakaider

This 90’s B grade english dubbed japanese action movie has the hero riding a V-Max and the bad guys riding some sort of adv bike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka3sVElcicM

Murray Trow
2025 years ago

Hmmm, pretty sure most are Prolink XL’s with one twinshock XL, and some other strays as wrecks.
At 11.40 it’s possible to see drum brakes,steel tanks, and rear shocks on the XLS.
They all exit ramp with tail-lights yet most smashed bikes later seem to have lost them…..

Eddieb Brodie
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2025 years ago

’80’s classic Weird Science has a scene where killer mutants on motorbikes invade a party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5GU8NI3XYw

Eddieb Brodie
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2025 years ago

More 80’s movie goodness, Time Rider from 1983.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJGm76S-0xw

Eddieb Brodie
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1 year ago

This is a more a scrambler but its doing adventure things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH-EzdZv-nw