Last year we lamented the sad loss of Easy Rider star Peter Fonda who died at the age of 79,... Read More
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Peter Fonda, the actor who played Wyatt riding a Captain America Harley chopper in the 1969 movie Easy Rider, has died at the age of 79. The hippy film recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of its first screening. It was shot on a shoestring budget in a haze of pot smoke and... Read More
Today is the 50th anniversary of the first public screening of the cult 1969 movie Easy Rider. In the USA, many... Read More
Peter Fonda famously throws away his watch in the cult 1969 movie Easy Rider, starting a fad with riders and... Read More
Motorcycles from movies such as Easy Rider and On Any Sunday and other bikes owned by famous Hollywood stars are coming up for auction. The highlight of the Bonham’s Barber Auction at the Barber Motorsports Museum in Alabama on October 6 is Steve McQueen’s 1970 Husqvarna 400 from the cult 1971 film On... Read More
Could it be that the hardtail chopper-riding hippy of Easy Rider fame, Peter Fonda, has sold out to a German luxury... Read More
The new Mel Gibson movie, Blood Father, is the latest to feature a motorcycle chase and while Hollywood movies usually... Read More
So you’ve been riding since Easy Rider was in the cinemas and you think you have good motorcycle knowledge. Or maybe you’re new to motorcycling, but have been reading MotorBikeWriter.com religiously since its birth in 2013. Well, now is the time to put your hard-won motorcycle knowledge to the test.... Read More
If motorcyclists want to advance their cause – politically and socially – they should be encouraging kids to take up... Read More
UPDATED: A 1969 Harley-Davidson FLH Electra Glide belonging to the late Marlon Brando has been sold at auction for $US256,000, making it... Read More
The auction sale of a Captain America chopper from the 1969 cult film Easy Rider has fallen through and the matter could end up in court. The only surviving chopper from Easy Rider was sold for a $1.7m in October, but when doubts about the bike’s authenticity were raised after... Read More
If you’re a fan of Easy Rider, Long Way Down, Mike Hailwood, bike racing or just rare bikes, then get... Read More
A 1939 Brough Superior 1150 SV former police bike and sidecar has possibly set an Australia record price at auction.... Read More
Celebrity bikes are attracting big money at the moment and now a ’59 Harley owned by rock ‘n’ roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis is expecting to fetch $1 million this weekend. This follows a world record $US1.3m paid recently for the Captain America Harley Panhead chopper from the 1969 cult film... Read More
The world’s most expensive bike is the Captain America Harley Panhead chopper from the 1969 cult film Easy Rider …... Read More
The Captain America chopper that crashed and burnt in the final scene of the famous 1969 cult film Easy Rider... Read More
Ok, that heading may be a little misleading. Bikers owned by the stars of the 1969 cult classic film, Easy Rider, are up for auction; not the actual bikes in the movie. Three of the original bikes were stolen and the bike that was crashed in the final scene was restored... Read More
Riding through America constantly feels like you are passing through a Hollywood movie set. Today’s movie moment was Easy Rider.... Read More
Easy Rider fans are planning an annual ride to commemorate the cult 1969 film’s director and actor, Dennis Hopper, who... Read More
For the rider who has everything … a $US695 book about motorcycles! The Impossible Collection of Motorcycles is compiled by artist and industrial designer Ian Barry and veteran automotive journalist Nicholas Stecher. It features some of the most unusual, stunning and important bikes of the past century or more. Certainly... Read More
Motorcycle movies: Motorbike riders deserve to have their story told on the big screen. There have been a few successes... Read More
Milwaukee is the home of the Harley-Davidson museum which opened on their 105th anniversary in 2008. It is one of... Read More
It’s about time a decent motorcycle movie was made – and Girl Meets Bike could be that movie. The independent American motorcycle movie about a woman who buys a 1991 Moto Guzzi 1000s with her wedding dress money is struggling to find distributors and is likely to go straight to video. From... Read More
Harley riders love a bargain, so it seems as the FXDB Street Bob is one of its top sellers at the... Read More
The Harley 72 captures the youth and the nostalgia market at the same time. The Harley-Davidson XL 1200V Sportster Seventy-Two looks... Read More