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?
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.
The Sibirsky Extreme
Megaforce motorcycle scenes
Great movies! Thanks Ed for sharing. I can spend my spare time watching these movies.
Classic Kiwi made post apocalyptic with a modified Suzuki Trail bike – Battle Truck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24alaWjfmws
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
Chuck Norris rides a rocket launcher equipped DR600 in Delta Force.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8zgBL9BSkg
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
Stallone rides a Yamaha XT in Rambo: First Blood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uo1Xpb2gqc
Some old italian? movie
https://www.facebook.com/istvan.szes/videos/1611319122249323/
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
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
Here’s the full motorcycle chase scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWAlz-YcCRM
Back To The Future,,
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
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…..
’80’s classic Weird Science has a scene where killer mutants on motorbikes invade a party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5GU8NI3XYw
More 80’s movie goodness, Time Rider from 1983.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJGm76S-0xw
This is a more a scrambler but its doing adventure things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH-EzdZv-nw