Cool Bike: Difference between revisions

* Jun the Swan's G3 from ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman]]''. It has portable buoys that when lowered under the bike can allow it to ride on water surfaces. Later in the series, it gets a missile launcher.

* ''[[Bakuon!!]]'' revolves around them, almost to the point of idolatry. It's basically "Cute High School Girls on Cool Bikes: The Series".

 

== Comic Books ==

* Hot Pursuit, an [[Alternate Universe]] [[The Flash|Barry Allen]] who lacks his [[Super Speed]], drives a bike that is powered by the [[Meta Origin|Speed Force]]. Its wheels appear to be made of pure [[Lightning Can Do Anything|speed energy]].

* The Spy Cycle from ''[[Spy Boy]]''.

 

== Fan Works ==

* [https://www.deviantart.com/plasma-dragon/art/Sidecar-848083642 This artwork] shows a Pokemon trainer with a Bisharp-themed motorcycle [[Cool Helmet| (with matching helmet!)]], which includes a sidecar for his Houndoom.

 

* Clouds Custom Motorcycle "[[I Call It Vera|Fenrir]]" in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]] [[Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children|Advent Children]]''. Bonus cool points for having a ''built in sword rack''.

* In the 2007 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|TMNT]]'' CGI movie, in his Nightwatcher guise, Raphael rides a motorcycle covered with plate steel. Michelangelo himself comments on how awesome this is.

* ''[[Aachi and Ssipak]]'' loves this trope seeing as how every character has a cool motorcycle or at least motorcycle-like vehicles. Special mention goes to the character of Geko, a [[Badass]] cyborg who has a bike with plenty of weapons.

* The BMW R 1150R Rockster used by Ben Affleck's character in ''[[Paycheck]]''.

* The Ducati 996 ridden by Trinity in ''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]'' during the highway chase.

* The green Harley-Davidson WLA Liberator that Captain America rides in ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]''. It even comes with machine guns, and a rope-launcher.<ref>Which Cap uses to great effect against motorcycle-ridng HYDRA mooks late in the movie.</ref>

* Young Boris's rather satanic looking bike from [[Men in Black]] 3

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[Snow Crash]]'', Hiro Protagonist's smart bike has ''its own operating system''. And Raven's bike. You know, the one with a ''hydrogen bomb'' built into its sidecar.

* Sirius in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' had a flying motorbike, which he gave to Hagrid to help him get Harry from Godric's Hollow to his uncle's house. It appeared again in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|Harry Potter]]'', where Hagrid used it to get Harry safely from his home to the Weasley's house. In the end Harry inherited it. A Triumph Bonneville was used in the films, and this seems to be canon.

* In Robert Asprin's ''[[Phule's Company]]'', CH (Chocolate Harry) gets official permission to use his personal hoverbike instead of a Legion vehicle.

 

* [[Kamen Rider]]s, obviously (that's where the "Rider" comes from); while the main Rider always has a Cool Bike, more recent seasons have started to introduce [[Sixth Ranger|Second Riders]] who don't have them. In order:

** The Showa Riders' bikes typically just have custom cowlings, due to special effects limitations of the 1970s, though they're all faster and more powerful than standard bikes, sometimes allowing them to ride along walls and up cliff faces. [[Kamen Rider X|X-Rider's]] can be used as an underwater vehicle and [[Kamen Rider Super-1|Super-1's]] actually flies using rockets. The bikes were a much bigger part of the series in the earlier years; more recent seasons have it as [[The Artifact]] (how many times did we see [[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'s bike, three?) It may have something to do with [[Real Life Writes the Plot|the Rider helmets losing the eyeholes]].

* Reno Raines rides one in ''[[Renegade (TV series)|Renegade]]''.

* ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]'' : DG's ride of choice appears to be a vintage 40's era motorcycle. It's also implied by her interaction with Officer Gulch that she [[Drives Like Crazy]] on it.

 

== Music ==

''Said James to Red Molly, well my hat's off to you

''It's a Vincent Black Lightning, 1952'' }}

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Macho Women with Guns]]'' has only three character classes ... and one of them is basically Motorcycle Nun.

* Steve Jackson Games' catalog once contained a fictitious entry for ''Kung Fu CB Mamas on Wheels vs. the Motorcycle Aztec Wrestling Nuns''. Despite not actually being a real game, if it ''did'' exist, it would have had one side entirely on Cool Bikes.

 

== Video Games ==

:: The bikes are, in fact, too souped-up for regular gameplay, but can be obtained from the beginning with a cheat device such as the Gameshark. In order to even hope to do well on most regular tracks with them, the player will have to lay off the throttle for most of the game. Jumping over a car at full speed may cause the bike to fly so far off the course that the player will not catch back up to the other racers.

* Yasha's Corvette from ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' is a Jet Bike!

 

== Web Comics ==

** King Radical, the Doctor's nemesis, rides a cool dirtbike.

* ''[[Dawn of Time]]'': after our prehistoric heroine jumps through time to a post-apocalyptic future she swaps her triceratops companion Blue for a triceratops-styled motorbike, BLU 1.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* In the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', Battlecat rides a Cool Bike called the Battlecycle. It's tricked out like one of [[James Bond]]'s cars.

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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[[Category:Motor Vehicle Tropes]]

[[Category:Rule of Cool]]

[[Category:The Utterly and Completely Definitive Guide to Cool]]

[[Category:Motorcycle Tropes]]