Motorbikes have featured in some of cinema’s most memorable moments throughout the years.
Metropolis Motorcycles are lucky enough to have many of these famous brands and models available so that you can ride away on your very own iconic screen motorbike.
Let’s take a look at ten of the most recognisable motorbikes from the movies…
1. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
Arnold Schwarzenegger speeds off after John Connor on a 1990 Harley Davidson FLSTF Fatboy. This movie is a thrilling sci-fi adventure and the motorbike driven by the infamous Terminator made it an instant hit with fans all around the globe.
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
This bike was created especially for The Dark Knight and proved to be quite difficult to function. According to the Huffington Post, production built a working ‘full-scale model of the bike from scratch’, which Jean-Pierre Goy (Batman’s stuntman) stated that in order to master he had to almost ‘un-learn how to ride a motorbike’. It was given the name ‘Bat-Pod’ and featured lethal machine guns.
3. Wild Hogs (2007)
This biker comedy road film starring Tim Allen and John Travolta was a hit back in 2007. All of the motorbikes featured in the movie were Harley Davidson models and included the Screamin’ Eagle Fatboy, Black Fatboy and the FXSTS Springer Softail.
4. Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003)
One of Quentin Tarantino’s major successes was the Kill Bill franchise. Uma Thurman raced to her next victim of vengeance on a yellow Kawasaki ZZR 250, which has since become one of the staple features of the film.
5. Ghost Rider (2007)
This haunting movie, based on the famous comic book from Marvel, featured one of the most iconic motorbikes of all time. It stood out from the rest thanks to its fiery wheels and hellish appearance. The ‘Hell Cycle’ could come when it was called and was 11ft long.
6. Top Gun (1986)
Top Gun is a legendary movie and so it’s no surprise that it made its way onto this list thanks to the memorable bike that Tom ‘cruised’ around in. The Kawasaki Ninja 900/GPZ 900R became an iconic bike and its popularity grew immensely after the film’s release.
7. The Great Escape (1963)
This 1963 classic made the Triumph TR-6 Trophy 650CC famous in the scene where the main character – played by Steve McQueen – jumps over a barbed wire fence in his great escape from the Nazis. It’s arguably the most glamorous ever movie motorbike.
8. Easy Rider (1969)
This counter-culture film featuring Billy the Kid was the movie that made ‘Born to be Wild’ an instant hit. The motorcycle in the movie was a Harley-Davidson Hydra-Glides, which also became a huge success.
9. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (also known as Che Guevara) speeds on a 1939 Norton 500 Motorbike, which was referred to as ‘The Mighty One’. The bike was one of the main props in the movie as the main character spent eight months on its saddle speeding across South America.
10. The Girl on a Motorbike (1968)
According to rowthree.com the girl on a motorbike took off on a Harley-Davidson Electra Glide. Thanks to the women’s liberation movement, which took place in 1968, the film was a massive success and hundreds of women decided to start riding motorcycles which came to symbolise freedom and rebellion for many.