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Triumph has announced a new Scrambler 1200 007 Edition to cash in on its star billing in the 25th James Bond film, No Time to Die, to hit the screens in November. The British company would have a paid a tidy sum for their first 007 film product placement which included the Scrambler 1200 and Tiger …
How would you like to ride a Rocket that once belonged to James Bond? Well, it was actually a 1969 BSA Rocket III motorcycle Aussie James Bond star George Lazenby used to commute to shooting his one and only Bond flick, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, at Pinewood Studios in the UK. But still, it …
Triumph has paid an undisclosed sum to feature in the 25th James Bond film, No Time to Die, but a Ducati Scrambler has stolen some limelight. The price for product placement in a movie is up to about $A500,000, but for a Bond film it can be a whole lot more. In fact, Heineken is believed …
The new Mel Gibson movie, Blood Father, is the latest to feature a motorcycle chase and while Hollywood movies usually get motorcycles all wrong, this is pretty real. Mel plays a recovering alcoholic, ex-con and father fighting to keep his wayward daughter alive and, of course, there is a motorcycle chase scene. So many times …
The motorcycle chase and leap over the wire fence in the 1963 World War II film, The Great Escape, has been voted as the greatest motorbike scene in movie history by a UK insurance e company. It beat the Tom Cruise airfield ride on a Kawasaki GPZ900R in Top Gun, the riding scenes from Easy Rider …
Let’s cut to the chase … I love a good chase scene in a movie, but it’s usually cars, cars and more cars. There are few movies that solely concentrate on a motorcycle chase which is strange since bikes can do a lot cars can’t such as jumps, wheelies, stoppies, etc. However, many of the …
It looks like something out of a James Bond movie, but this hovering “bike” is not the stuff of Hollywood fantasy. It’s about to become reality. Californian company Aerofex is already testing its Aero-X hoverbike and plans to have the vehicle available for sale in 2017, costing more than $90,000. But is this the future …
James Bond movies are usually associated with exotic cars, but motorcycles have also featured. Victoria’s Motorclassica will showcase one of each in the Royal Exhibition Building from October 25-27. Bond’s 1969 Aston Martin DBS Vantage from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and his 1997 BMW R1200C motorcycle from Tomorrow Never Dies will be a preview …