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If youyour gottech base has [[AntiArtificial Gravity|anti-gravity]] worked out, you may have a [[Flying Car]] that's actually practical - it bypasses most of the issues surrounding driving over unyielding terrain simply by flying over it, and manages to maintain some decent fuel economy while driving faster than a conventional sports car. But then, being practical is not the only desirable quality, and since on the ground motorcycles have been seen as [[Cool Bike|the absolute coolest]] way to travel, why not a flying'''Flying bikeBike''', too? Especially if the cast features an [[Badass Biker]] who has his signature hover bike.
 
As with cars, rangesFlying Bikes range all the way from the [[Not Quite Flight]] of hover vehicles to space-capable flight (which may require extra [[Handwavium]] for radiation shielding). And it comes with the added risk of falling off your bike (painful when the bike's on the ground, potentially fatal at 500 feet)... and potentially into something that you can't normally stand on, like a lake of magma.
 
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== [[Advertising]] ==
 
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[REDLINE]]'' has a hoverbike that JP uses to get around Europass.
* Woody's flying delivery bike in ''[[Aria (manga)|Aria]]'' is fast enough to turn what would be a month-long voyage by gondola into a day trip by air.
* The bandit troop that Dagmyer recruits to his uncle's cause in ''[[Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar]]'' are liberally equipped with vehicles that look suspiciously like the speeder bikes from ''[[Star Wars]]''. Eventually the good guys hijack a couple.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Lobo]]'' has his Space Hawg. Which sometimes has wheels installed, but generally used as personal spacecraft.
 
== [[Fan Works]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' gothas a lotwide ofvariety variousof repulsorcraft, including speeder bikes. Stormtroopers use these for scouts (then an Ewok stole one of those, and was surprisingly familiar with piloting it).
** The expanded canon shows that speeder bikes have been around since the Clone Wars, although they were generally used by pirates as a means of reconnaissance and raiding.
* ''[[Flash Gordon (film)|Flash Gordon]]'' had a Hawkmen rocketcycle [[Universal DriversDriver's LicenceLicense|piloted by the protagonist]] at one point.
* Playing With a Trope: The most ironiciconic scene in ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]'' has Elliot on a bike with ET, beingElliot's ablefriends toon fly.their Thebikes otherbehind kids following him also were able to thethem, sameall didflying.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'' has "float bikes".
* In ''[[Phule's Company]]'', Chocolate Harry gets official permission to use his personal hoverbike instead of a Legion vehicle. He gothad experience with hoverbikes, andhaving ranjoined tothe Legion after a bad squabble with somea biker gang in the first place.
* Sirius' flying motorbike from ''[[Harry Potter]]''.
 
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Galactica 1980]]'', the Colonials bring flying motor bikes to Earth.
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' has at least three flying bikes, each for a single Ranger in its season. Such as custom made "[https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Arsenal_(Dino_Thunder)#Hovercraft_Cycle Hovercraft Cycle]", a wheeled bike with flight mode.
 
== [[Music]] ==
* [[Judas Priest]]'s Painkiller is a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|chrome-plated cyborg angel]] riding a flying dragon-motorcycle with buzzsaws for wheels., Accordingaccording to the song and the album cover.
 
== [[New Media]] ==
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
 
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
 
== [[Pinball]] ==
 
== [[Podcast]]s ==
 
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
 
== [[Puppet Shows]] ==
 
== [[Radio]] ==
 
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' gothas jetbikes., used mostly Mostlyby the Eldar. Space Marines used to ride them too, but latelyin it'slater asupplements bit ofthey're [[Lost Technology]], so only a few remainedremain in working condition (although the White Scars use them en masse and the Dark Angels have a company's worth of them). Necrons have Tomb BladeBlades, which isare somewhere between tricycletricycles and monowheelmonowheels in shape.
* ''[[Star Frontiers]]'' gothave Hovercyclehovercycles. —Like as allother hovercraft, they are somewhat less manoeuvrable than other vehicles, but unlike other hovercraft they have lower top speedspeeds than the wheeled version. Maybe havingHaving sapient flying squirrel/monkey hover-bikers in sunglasses [[Rule of Cool|is its own reward]].
* ''[[Stars Without Number]]'' gotalso Hovercycleshave hovercycles. A PC (as a VI Vehicle Bot) maymight ''be'' one. Hover vehicles are not-quite-flight, but it can briefly raise to 10 m, thus usually can usually move through anything short of dense vegetation or Kowloon Walled City grade urban terrain.
 
== [[Theatre]] ==
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The ''[[Star Wars: Battlefront]]'' games generally have Speeder Bikes as a means for going from "Point A" to harassing an enemy command post in a matter of seconds. But, being a vehicle that leaves the operator exposed, it's essentially an [[Fragile Speedster]] that can be commandeered by killing the person riding it.
* ''[[Mario Kart]] 8'' introduces the concept of anti-gravity, with the vehicles' tires being reconfigured so that they can float above the ground (and walls). And it's worth mentioning that motorcycles makes a return in this instalment.
* Wes from ''[[Pokémon Colosseum]]'' has a hoverbike monstrosity. It even has a side car that his Espeon and Umbreon ride in.
* The Hoverbikes in ''[[X-COM (Video Game)|X-COM]]: Apocalypse''; since they can be armed and are very agile, [[Zerg Rush]]ing massive [[Flying Saucer]]s with Hoverbike swarm works fairly well. The downside is that since a bike can take only a small weapon and a basic targeting system, crippling or killing large targets takes many shots, so the battle tend to protract — and cause more damage to the city, since that's what missing shots from whoever is at the greater altitude usually do.
* ''[[Perfect Dark]]'' gothas a hoverbike, from Area 51.
* OpeningThe opening scene of ''[[Mega Man X]] 2'' has X riding a hoverbike.
* ''[[Flashback (1992 video game)|Flashback]]'' has the protagonist running on one of these in the intro cutscene.
 
== [[Visual Novel]]s ==
 
== [[Web Animation]] ==
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In Book 15 of ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' Book 15 escalates action when, Sorlie is given by her's bosses send [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-11-10 a scooter], delivered to pick her up while jumping from the flying car she currentlywas ridesriding in. Later the entire team gets scooters and more flying cars,. bothRemote ascontrol transportallows andthem to [[Land in the Saddle]] smoothly, or use scooters [[Ramming Always Works|as kinetic missiles]].
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' gothas [http://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=53#2007-11-15 inflatable hoverbikes]. InflatableRiff ones,got thanksthem tofrom thea [[Mad Scientist]] inclined to make ''everything'' inflatable.
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' gothas a hoverbike. Er,an "Overbike".
* By the third season of ''[[ReBoot]]'', both Matrix and AndrAIa ride flying bikes instead of using their home system's usual hoverdisks to get around.
 
== Other Media ==
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
 
 
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