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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 with a plot that was …
Today is the 50th anniversary of the first public screening of the cult 1969 movie Easy Rider. In the USA, many theatres are showing the film again. Here in Australia, you can watch it on DVD and maybe a streaming service. The hippy film was shot on a shoestring budget in a haze of pot smoke …
Could it be that the hardtail chopper-riding hippy of Easy Rider fame, Peter Fonda, has sold out to a German luxury car brand? The following advertisement was featured during the televising of the annual Super Bow football finals in the US. It not only reprises Peter’s Captain America leather jacket from the cult 1969 film, but …
This 1973 safety film starring Easy Rider star Peter Fonda and legendary stuntman Evel Knievel is not only hilarious, with some great period music, but also still surprisingly relevant today. While the film doesn’t endorse lane filtering or splitting, most of the information supplied is still as relevant today as it was in the 1970s …
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 the sale, it’s alleged the …
The world’s most expensive bike is the Captain America Harley Panhead chopper from the 1969 cult film Easy Rider … or is it? The bike has just sold for a staggering $US1,350,000 ($A1.54m) in the Profiles In History auction in California to an undisclosed buyer. Profiles in History spokesperson Sabrina Propper says “the buyer is …
Easy Rider fans are planning an annual ride to commemorate the cult 1969 film’s director and actor, Dennis Hopper, who died last year aged 77. Motorcyclists and movie fanatics from as far as Canada made the pilgrimage at the weekend to Taos, New Mexico, for the first ride to celebrate Hopper and his iconic counterculture …
Motorcycle movies: Motorbike riders deserve to have their story told on the big screen. There have been a few successes over the years, but the last major motorcycle movie of note was “Wild Hogs”, a Hollywood comedy that nonetheless ceverly defined the midlife crisis trend. Now comes a bike movie made by biker riders with …
The Harley 72 captures the youth and the nostalgia market at the same time. The Harley-Davidson XL 1200V Sportster Seventy-Two looks like it could have rolled out of any talented young designer’s workshop. Yet the Harley 72 also conjures fond memories of Peter Fonda’s Captain America chopper from the 1969 cult film, Easy Rider. And all …