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The 16 Greatest Motorcycles in Movie History

By YPB Team

The Captain America chopper, McQueen's disguised Triumph, Kaneda's red bike, the Batpod. Sixteen machines that carried a scene and then outlived the film around them.

  1. Captain America Chopper — ranked #11
    Captain America Chopper
    Peter Fonda's stars-and-stripes Harley panhead from Easy Rider, the most copied bike ever built for a film.
    1000pts
  2. Terminator 2 Fat Boy — ranked #22
    Terminator 2 Fat Boy
    The Harley Arnold Schwarzenegger rides out of a bar and down a Los Angeles flood channel.
    914pts
  3. Great Escape Triumph — ranked #33
    Great Escape Triumph
    The TR6 dressed as a wartime BMW for Steve McQueen's run at the wire.
    792pts
  4. Mad Max Kawasaki Z1000 — ranked #44
    Mad Max Kawasaki Z1000
    The Main Force Patrol interceptor bike from the film that made the wasteland a genre.
    705pts
  5. Mission: Impossible BMW — ranked #55
    Mission: Impossible BMW
    Tom Cruise's helmetless run through Roman traffic and the Rome staircase.
    548pts
  6. Ghost Rider Hell Cycle — ranked #66
    Ghost Rider Hell Cycle
    A chopper on fire, ridden by a skull, and entirely unbothered by physics.
    548pts
  7. Dumb and Dumber Minibike — ranked #77
    Dumb and Dumber Minibike
    The tiny two-stroke that carries two grown men to Aspen, and the joke that comes with it.
    548pts
  8. Batpod — ranked #88
    Batpod
    Batman's tyre-first machine from The Dark Knight, steered from the shoulders.
    548pts
  9. Akira's Kaneda Bike — ranked #99
    Akira's Kaneda Bike
    A red hub-centre-steering machine that has outlived the film in poster and toy form.
    464pts
  10. Pulp Fiction Chopper — ranked #1010
    Pulp Fiction Chopper
    The Harley captioned Grace that Butch rides away on, having stolen it from the wrong person.
    365pts
  11. Return of the Jedi Speeder Bike — ranked #1111
    Return of the Jedi Speeder Bike
    Not strictly a motorcycle, but the Endor chase is filmed exactly like one.
    365pts
  12. Harley and the Marlboro Man Bike — ranked #1212
    Harley and the Marlboro Man Bike
    Mickey Rourke's Softail from the film that put the brand in its own title.
    365pts
  13. Tron Light Cycle — ranked #1313
    Tron Light Cycle
    A vehicle made of light that has to be ridden lying down, and has no brakes worth the name.
    249pts
  14. The Wild One Triumph — ranked #1414
    The Wild One Triumph
    Marlon Brando's Thunderbird 6T, the bike that created the leather-jacket outlaw image.
    249pts
  15. Top Gun Kawasaki GPZ900R — ranked #1515
    Top Gun Kawasaki GPZ900R
    Maverick racing an F-14 down the runway, sunglasses on, helmet nowhere.
    249pts
  16. Matrix Reloaded Ducati 996 — ranked #1616
    Matrix Reloaded Ducati 996
    Trinity riding the wrong way up a Californian freeway in a leather coat.
    249pts

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