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Easy Riders's Capt America bike is back!

Fonda came over and rode a replica of the bike at the Goodwood festival of speed here in the UK a year or so back. Still cool after all those years !
 
.......I bet that really was cool. Peter's appearance in the film annoyed his dad something awful, but nearly as bad Hanoi Jane.
 
The auction company expects it to bring between 1 million and 1.2 million. It's the only one left that was actually in the movie. The rest were stolen from a storage warehouse before they had even wrapped shooting. It was once owned by Dan Haggerdy of "Grizzly Adams" fame. He worked on the Easy Rider crew as the guy who kept the bikes running. He rebuilt it after it was demolished for a scene in the movie. If you don't have the 1.2 million, there's a company that sells a kit to make an exact replica for $25K.
 
I was 14 then so this is what I remember. I had the black and white poster of PF and the bike in my room. The stars and stripes helmet was popular too. At that time anything with the stars and stripes was considered the American flag and was anti-American to put it on something like a motorcycle tank or a helmet. Just wearing the pattern on a shirt was a disgrace to the flag. I was an upcoming hippie, Woodstock had happened Vietnam was in full swing. Trust me, that bike was a sign against America.
 
Cool, thanks for posting!
 

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I remember an interview they did with Peter years later and he said something the effect that it was a cool looking bike but that she was a "b*tch to ride".
 
yeah Dennis's bike is far more ride-able, much more my style too...
Captain America Peter's bike was an ICON thou...
 

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That look sure inspired the stingray bicycles of the early 70's.

Well it might have, if the Schwinn Sting-Ray hadn't come out first in 1963... :) Although I don't recall a lot of those when I was a kid, most of the ones in school were the knock-off CCM Mustang Marauder.
 
I know the Sting-ray came out in the early 60's
BUT the really cool ones,
like the Cotton Picker, the Lemon Peel, the Orange Krate & Apple Krate or even the Fastback
were a little later in the 60's-70's like 1967-71ish IIRC
weren't they
 

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I know the Sting-ray came out in the early 60's
BUT the really cool ones,
like the Cotton Picker, the Lemon Peel, the Orange Krate & Apple Krate or even the Fastback
were a little later in the 60's-70's like 1967-71ish IIRC
weren't they

What great memories, my brother and I had the orange crate and the Lemon peeler. I always wonder where the bugs went.

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That's really cool, thanks for sharing. I can remember going to Daytona several times in the 90 and there was the bike there on display. I am thinking it was a clone but have no clue. I have both bikes in my Franklin Mint collection. Not sure why all of a sudden my iPad took a grainy picture.image.jpgimage.jpg
 
yeah Dennis's bike is far more ride-able, much more my style too...
Captain America Peter's bike was an ICON thou...
Dan Haggerty currently rides a twin of the "Billy" bike. I saw the original Captain America bike at a car show in 1968. Jeez, I was 12!
 
I remember an interview they did with Peter years later and he said something the effect that it was a cool looking bike but that she was a "b*tch to ride".

They are! It's a "hard tail", no rear suspension. You better have cast iron kidneys and a strong back. Plus the seat has hardly any padding and sits right on the frame. As far as the raked front end and extended forks, you more or less just pointed them and hit the throttle. Almost like steering a dragster. Not hardly any turning radius. Ask me how I know, 1949 pan head, almost the same setup but I had a 21" over, springer front end. Cool man!
 
I always thought it was at the Smithsonian in D.C. Wasn't Easy Rider the first movie Peter directed?
 
Early 2000's Peter Fonda was selling reproduction of the Captain America and The Billy Bike.

Not sure if they were big sellers. I remember reading about it in Easy rider.
 
The bike shown in the crash scene was not the Captain America Harley. It was a Japanese bike with a tall sissy bar on it. See the scene where the bike is headed for the ditch without a rider. Look closely.
There are so many Captain America clones, I wouldn't bet even this one is correct. Give me a few$ and I will document anything you want!LOL. No one has mentioned engine serial numbers, but even they can be changed......................MO
 
The above is a bold statement. Care to cite your source for that info?
 
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