#EASY RIDER BIKES MOVIE#
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#EASY RIDER BIKES MOVIE#

This is the only officially licensed Easy Rider Movie tour available, and takes riders on the actual route from the film, visiting many places where key scenes were shot. Of course, a two week tour on either of these bikes would be hard work, so riders will be on EagleRider fleet bikes for most of the tour, with a support vehicle and guides.

Riders on this tour will all get a shared turn at riding both the Billy Bike and Captain America, on the very same roads the originals rode! And there’s room on the back for pillions as well. You don’t really see Easy Rider replica bikes being ridden, certainly not for bike miles.īut that’s all about to change, because EagleRider commissioned updated replicas of the Easy Rider bikes, to bring along on their new Official Easy Rider Movie Guided Tour. These bikes were mostly displayed at shows, taken out on short rides or to publicity events. Many replicas were built over the years by dedicated fans of the film, most to the original specifications. Sadly, the original bikes were lost after filming. Both bikes had tiny gas tanks with little range, and the Captain America didn’t even have a front brake! Still, who would turn down a ride on either of these bikes? There are no concessions to comfort, especially on the Captain America bike, with ape hangers, forward controls and a kicked back riding position. Say the word “chopper” and most people immediately think of Fonda’s red, white and blue machine. These old-school choppers look uncompromising because they are. Ride the Easy Rider Bikes! Ever since seeing the film “Easy Rider” for the first time, we’ve wondered what it would be like to ride the motorcycles used in the iconic film. People would say, 'Wow, Terry Southern co-wrote that.Want to get a ride on replicas of the iconic motorcycles from the classic biker flick “Easy Rider”? Here’s how you can. Having him with us as a writer on the script put it above periscope depth.

Peter Fonda said of Southern's contributions, 'He gave us dark humor and a literary panache that Dennis and I did not have. Well, one of them was the producer and other was the director, so there was no way the Writers Guild was going to allow them to take a screenplay credit unless I insisted.' Not listening to the WGA, Southern allowed them to have their credits on the film, which was largely improvised.

He said that he and Dennis liked the film so much, they wanted to be in on the screenplay credits. After they had seen a couple of screenings of it on the coast, I got a call from Peter. In an interview with Creative Screenwriting, Southern claimed, 'Peter was to be the actor and producer, Dennis the actor and director, and a certain yours truly, the writer. In an interview with The Guardian, Dennis Hopper claimed that Terry Southern wrote nothing in the film besides contributing the title, as he broke his hip in a fall.

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Some of the scenes which were in the original cut, but got deleted are: The original opening showing Wyatt and Billy performing in a Los Angeles stunt show (their real jobs), the two of them being ripped off by the promoter, getting in a biker fight, picking up women at a drive-in, cruising to, and escaping from Mexico to score the cocaine they sell, an elaborate police and helicopter chase that took place at the beginning after the dope deal, with police chasing Wyatt and Billy over mountains, and across the Mexican border, the road trip out of Los Angeles, edited to the full length of Steppenwolf's ''Born to Be Wild'' with billboards along the way offering wry commentary, Wyatt and Billy being pulled over by a cop while driving their motorcycles across highway, two of them encountering the black motorcycle gang, ten additional minutes for the volatile café scene in Louisiana, where George deftly keeps the peace, Wyatt and Billy checking in a hotel before going over to Madam Tinkertoy's, extended and much longer Madam Tinkertoy sequence, extended versions of all of the campfire scenes, including the enigmatic finale in which Wyatt says ''We blew it, Billy.'' All deleted footage is believed to be lost. There are various reports about exact running time of original rough cut of the movie Four hours, four and a half hours, or five hours.

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