[bevo1981]

what's your favorite motorcycle chase scenes in movies? what was great about them? try to post a clip of them if you can. i'd love to eventually see every awesome bike scene filmed on this thread, so here's a couple to start off that i like:


Tron was the first movie to extensively use CGI, and thus the first to use CGI with a motorcycle action sequence. it's still impressive how good this looks today.

T2, arguably the greatest movie sequel of all time. Arnold was so badass on that fatboy that they put them both on the movie posters.

 

[lesblank]

I think Ghost Rider had some pretty neat scenes.

 

[bevo1981]

this isn't a great one from Black Rain, but i laughed at the obvious stunt doubles.

 

[MFP4073]

Coogans Bluff

 

[Yamaha Pat]

First Blood.

 

[Yamaha Pat]

Escape from L.A.

 

[scootersage]

 

[bevo1981]

what i love about the chase in Coogan's Bluff is that it's perhaps the most realistic chase i've ever seen. you can see both riders make numerous amateur-ish mistakes which makes the whole thing look unpolished, but real. just about every bike chase filmed in the past 40 years or so look meticulously choreographed, rehearsed, and well planned out, usually with the aid of other vehicles to make the bike and/or rider be able to do things they couldn't normally do, such as shown in Escape From L.A. while tremendously fun to watch in its own right, no one ever films a 'realistic' scene anymore like that in Coogan's Bluff. in real life if that chase happened they wouldn't both be 'pro' riders or know the route they were going. they would both be pumped full of adrenaline and would most likely make some of the same handling mistakes that are shown in this movie.


while the sequel to Ghost Rider was a truly abysmal movie, perhaps the only redeeming element to it was the one minute that a flaming Yamaha VMax is on screen:

 

[scootersage]

I see Robert Blake passed away, he did that movie Electra Glide in Blue.

 

[bevo1981]

gotta be the greatest superhero bike of all time.

 

[Shotround]

gotta be the greatest superhero bike of all time.

sounds like one of them fancy electric bikes. though guns and a winch kind of makes lack of loud pipes. wonder if itll get by as a daily driver..

 

[vito]

I see Robert Blake passed away, he did that movie Electra Glide in Blue.

That bike seemed to go on forever after he fell off. Great scene.

I gotta go with The Great Escape. Didn't work out too well, but a great scene non the less.

the great escape motorcycle scene - Google Search

 

[Daemonwulf]

only thing i hate about the Matrix scene is it was the first expression of what i've come to know as the Italian bike rule in cinema. much like Checkov's gun must be used, if you see an Italian sportbike in a movie, it must be destroyed. Matrix, Expendables... I, Robot... Venom... and on..

 

[bevo1981]

Mythbusters proved you can't actually flip a motorcycle by doing this, but who cares. it's still awesome.

 

[Authentic Poser]

Real Life is always better

 

[Yamaha Pat]