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== [[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]]''
** 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
* Playing With a Trope: The most
== [[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
* 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
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''
* ''[[Star Frontiers]]''
* ''[[Stars Without Number]]''
== [[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]]''
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* ''[[Flashback (1992 video game)|Flashback]]'' has the protagonist running on one of these in the intro cutscene.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In Book 15 of ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Code Lyoko]]''
* 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.
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