Easy Rider Chopper


The chopped 50s police Harley (or one of them, there were three, one destroyed in the film and two stolen!)that served as Captain America's motorcycle (I'll call it 'Stars and Stripes') is to be seen here in the scene where the network is interviewing for background in Denver. The bike can be seen being parked and then being driven off (by a Tim Scott looking character! Hooper and Fonda claimed the bikes built for the film (exc. for the destroyed one at the end) were stolen prior to filming's end. I think the trail just got warm on where they went. In comparing images from the DVD of V.P. to images of the bike from the E.R. page in Wikipedia, they look like the same exact bike and not a replica. The tiome between the E.R. and V.P. filming was too short too for eplicas to be fabricated. Even OCC would be pressed time and exactitude wise to make a copy.

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Sorry but there is no way that could be the same bike. The bike in VP is either a BSA or a Triumph look at the pipes it is vertical twin, Fonda's bike was a Harley V-twin The pipe would have come out on the right side you wouldn't even see the back pipe. Also the rake on the forks is not the same and and the bars are angle not Apehangers besides the the VP bike has rear shocks (note the springs) where as Fonda's bike was a rigid frame. Other than the paint on the tank and helmet there is nothing that is the same. Just another poser.

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Good eyes, Mr. S. You know your choppers.

"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's LIVING!"
Captain Augustus McCrae

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