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Coolest movie motorcycle ever?

posted 19 years ago by mark-1802
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The 'race' at the start of this film was pure Hollywood horses**t, a 1000cc 70's Harley Davidson with 57bhp weighing 218kg (261bhp/tonne) versus an 1100cc 80's Suzuki with 108 bhp weighing 251kg (430bhp/tonne), not to mention the Suzi' more modern brakes, frame and suspension has a fairly obvious conclusion. But that wasn't the point I know, this was showing good ol' American ruggedness winning over Japanese hi-tech by din't of the application of several gallons of testosterone and testicles the size of watermellons.
Having said all of that, I instantly fell in love with the Harley! In case anyone is interested it was an XLCR 1000 Cafe Racer, designed by Willie G. Davidson and they only made about 3500 of them so they're quite rare. Paralleled in butch-ness by bike such as the Yamaha Vmax, Triumph Speed Triple, KTM Super Duke etc but not surpassed.
If she-who-must=be-obeyed ever lets me have another bike and I win the lottery, one of these'll be top of the shopping list.
What say you?

[–] BadBoyMelvin 19 years ago

Yeah I agree, the cafe racer is one cool bike. The bikini fairing looks punk!
One thing though is when you work the motor on a Harley they really wail. I'm in a bike club so I've seen first hand what happens when a bit of hard earned cash is put in the motor. They really hammer! So it is possible that a worked cafe racer could beat a stock 1100 Suzuki. Have you ever been to the drags when the Harley's are racin'? Awesome!

[–] lassehendrichsen 19 years ago

im sorry but a harley against a suzuki????

thats not a race..... its a humiliation.....hehe

with the kind of power japanese bikes have today american bikes has nothing to beat them with.

Harley couldent even build their own motor for the v-rod they had porsche design it for them and what about that time when nico bakker tried out the most expensive harley and ended up balancing the engine out with 120 grams extra???? i may not sound as much but believe me 120 grams makes a world of difference....

Harley ...get your ass into this millenium.

by the way bakker refused to endorse the harley....piece of crap machine.

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[–] electroheadz 15 years ago

Did you notice the bike chase scene at the end between Nick and Sato,
The sound of the single cylinder 2 stroke bikes were over dubbed with 4 cylinder 4 stroke sound effects.....pure comedy!