BMWs in the Movies!

OUTBACKUFO · Sep 6, 2006

for you all that like old 60's ski moives... there is a movie call "Scrapple" that has the main character riding a R35 with side car in the whole movie.. it is based in Ophir and Telluride back when it was a small town..

Crow18 · Sep 18, 2006

So one of the guys on Fox's Prison Break series is riding some sort of old-style airhead. All black, no markings. Can't tell if it's a restored R75 or a Ural without a sidecar or what.

The_Veg · Oct 1, 2006

Crow, have I got news for you. I can say with certainty that the bike in question is a Ural- I saw the bike used in the show up-close and personal yesterday, even got to hear it run and had a nice chat with one of the transpo-guys about it. Prison Break is produced here in Dallas and I spent yesterday doing some side-work at the show's production office. The guy I spoke with said that they do have a sidecar for it too stashed away somewhere. The bike has an Earles-type fork with a rather meaty-looking front disc with an equally meaty-looking Brembo caliper. I seriously doubt that that is the stock brake setup. Speaking of brakes, the guy I spoke with later complained about getting WAY too dirty trying to rig up brake systems on a pair of Ramblers to be used in a chse-scene that will be shot this week. My big questions was, "where on Earth do you find a PAIR of Ramblers???"

And while I'm ressurecting this thread, who remembers the R65LS from The Day After?

belquar · Oct 1, 2006

You may laugh.

The Other Sister with Giovanni Ribisi and Juliette Lewis has a Ivory R1200C in it. Towards the end of the movie, Ribisi gets picked up while hitchhiking in the rain by the bike.

DMR · Oct 2, 2006

Hooper?

Just saw Hooper this weekend, again. Did the motorcycle cop that gets yanked off his ride have a bmw? I'm not too good on the models, but the tank looked familiar. Funny thing was, in the scene when BR goes by on the highway in reverse, the rear of the bike looks like a HD. You don't suppose they switched to wreck a bmw instead of a harley?

beemokat · Oct 2, 2006

"Mystery Men"

The Ben Stiller character rides a Slash 2.
I hope I've gotten the title right. Should have probably checked
www.imdb.com
first.

The_Veg · Oct 2, 2006

The cop-bike in Hooper was a Moto Guzzi. I think CHP used them in the early '70s, but Hooper was made in 1978 and at that time Ponch & Jon were on Kawasakis (I have no idea what the real CHiPs were riding in '78). Not sure if the guy in Hooper was supposed to be a local or a CHiP.

BTW the part in Hooper where all the red brick buildings get blown up was filmed across the street from my elementary school when I was in fourth grade. Pretty exciting times in Tuscaloosa.

DMR · Oct 3, 2006

Thanks on the Hooper info. I guess i could have replayed the scene until I saw it.
Fast times at Tuscaloosa Elem- that was one of the good parts of the movie.

Dave

darrylri · Oct 3, 2006

Actually, the CHP never used Guzzis. But the LA Police rode them in the 70s, had a whole fleet of them. El Dorados, I think, were the model they used, a 750.

Daver90s · Oct 3, 2006

Cheech and Chong

Tommy Chong gets a ride on the back of an airhead in Cheech and Chong's Next Movie - not sure what model- - /5 maybe? or an R50

The_Veg · Oct 4, 2006

Thanks for the correction Darryl- I've never lived in CA so I was going on what I'd heard from others which was not correct. Somebody smack me...!

darrylri · Oct 4, 2006

The_Veg said:
Thanks for the correction Darryl- I've never lived in CA so I was going on what I'd heard from others which was not correct. Somebody smack me...!

The LAPD also had a bunch of AMC Matadors for cruisers, when I started driving. You might (probably not) recall the AMC commercials -- they were sinking and trying to get people to recognize their cars -- with the tag line "so that's a Matador!"

Well, I had just gotten my license and I was driving my mom's Olds Delta 88 land barge down Van Nuys Blvd. with a couple friends. We pulled up to a light, right next to an LAPD unit, and my friend leans out the window and yells at the cop "So that's a Matador!" I nearly died, but the cop just laughed.

beemokat · Oct 4, 2006

"Dragnet"

the spoof with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks. Hanks' character rides a K-100.

amiles · Oct 5, 2006

In the film "Day of the Jackal" many /2 models are seen

burnszilla · Oct 5, 2006

I found the website that lists all the bikes in movies...
http://www.motorbiker.org/motorbiker.nsf/Movies_Bikes!OpenView&Start=1&Count=50&Expand=7#7
Pierce Brosnan on a K75C!

Rasbutan · Oct 6, 2006

Burnszilla said:
I found the website that lists all the bikes in movies...
http://www.motorbiker.org/motorbike...ee if Blockbuster has this movie with Pierce!

The_Veg · Oct 6, 2006

Interesting that most of them are French. Those Frogs must really love BMW!

iRene · Oct 12, 2006

I caught "Danny Deckchair" on DVD just yesterday, and an old airhead
is featured prominently in the latter half of the movie.
It is a sweet little movie!

And it is featured for the right reasons- the heroine has the old thing in her
barn and recalls wistfully that her parents toured on it. It is then made to
run and put to good use.

beemokat · Oct 12, 2006

iRene said:
I caught "Danny Deckchair" on DVD just yesterday, and an old airhead
is featured prominently in the latter half of the movie.
It is a sweet little movie!

And it is featured for the right reasons- the heroine has the old thing in her
barn and recalls wistfully that her parents toured on it. It is then made to
run and put to good use.

I forgot about that one, it's a slash5, right?

iRene · Oct 12, 2006

BeemoKat said:
I forgot about that one, it's a slash5, right?

Actually, I could use some help on this- I don't know. The handlebars and mirrors didn't look BMW to me, and only after a full shot of the bike was I even sure it was a Beemer-

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