Lot of history right there Mike. Both, great examples of what was going on back in the day.There are copies of both of the bikes at the Motorcyclopedia Museum in Newburgh, NY
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Yep, that was a diffrent era... good and ocassionaly less than good...Always liked the Billy Bike a bit more, but hey, both, beautiful rides.
I love the look of Captain America bike, but I can't imagine that riding with all that rake could be practical, though I know people used to ride them like that.Lot of history right there Mike. Both, great examples of what was going on back in the day.
Always liked the Billy Bike a bit more, but hey, both, beautiful rides.
An often overlooked aspect of that movie is that it tried to show people as they really are. The tagline on the movie poster was "A man went looking for America and couldn't find it anywhere." And in an interview a few years later Peter Fonda said that near the end of the movie when he says "We blew it" he didn't just mean the two bikers, he meant everybody. Watching it in a theater when it was first made, you see the two bikers or the hippies or the ******** as good or bad depending on your social/political/cultural leanings. But watching it 30-40 years later you realize everybody was wrong or misguided or inept or foolish to some extent.Yep, that was a different era... good and occasionally less than good...
I watched it at the local drive in with a few of my friends.--
I remember Easy Rider well. I was passing through the south shortly after that and sleeping at parks alongside the road on the way and was so nervous that I could be attacked that I don't think I slept much at all in my sleeping bag. Then to bathe, I would jump into a lake, rub my body for 2 seconds, then jump out. I wanted to avoid cottonmouth snakes. Terrible trip.
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That's a good point Ron, I wondered about that a few times.An often overlooked aspect of that movie is that it tried to show people as they really are. The tagline on the movie poster was "A man went looking for America and couldn't find it anywhere." And in an interview a few years later Peter Fonda said that near the end of the movie when he says "We blew it" he didn't just mean the two bikers, he meant everybody. Watching it in a theater when it was first made, you see the two bikers or the hippies or the ******** as good or bad depending on your social/political/cultural leanings. But watching it 30-40 years later you realize everybody was wrong or misguided or inept or foolish to some extent.
I can't really express it properly, but watching that movie 30 years later was painful because it is so honest.
When the movie starts Wyatt and Billy are smuggling drugs across the Mexican border for a rich big-time pusher whom they clearly despise (as indicated by the background music being God Damn The Pusher). These aren't exactly upstanding law-abiding citizens.It was like, how did they blow it?
They didn't rip anyone off, steal a girl or wife....
Why wonder when it only takes a minute to actually do a google search and it gives you a pagefull of useful results like this?I wonder if doing a search for the creator of the bike, will yield results. He got ignored!! UK