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{{quote|<poem>''I'm a cowboy''
''On a steel horse I ride''
''I'm wanted''
''Dead or alive''</poem>|'''[[Bon Jovi]]''', "Wanted Dead or Alive" }}
 
Using a [[Cool Bike]] as the replacement for a [[Cool Horse]], in a modernized take on older tropes.
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Contrast with [[Automaton Horses]], that is an inversion when actual, natural horses are treated like machines by the plot, and Compare to [[Mechanical Horse]], a machine that actually looks like a horse. If characters use the motorbike to joust, then it's [[Motorcycle Jousting]].
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== Anime & Manga ==▼
== Played Straight ==
▲=== Anime & Manga ===
* ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'', despite being the [[Trope Namer]], is not an example as the "motorbike" is still a [[Cool Horse|real horse]], just one that's been [[Anachronism Stew|outfitted with handlebars and tailpipes]].
* ''[[Melody of Oblivion]]'' on the other hand, '''is''' an example, but it goes a bit further than that by styling the motorcyles to more closely resemble horses. And they transform into [[Bishonen]] for extra [[Rule of Cool|cool factor]].
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=== Comic Books ===
* [[DC Comics]] superheroes Knight and Squire ride motorbikes. In [http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2010/07/knightbatman62.jpg some 50s stories] and the [[Paul Cornell]] [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100308234629/marvel_dc/images/thumb/b/bd/Squire_and_her_Cycle.jpg/210px-Squire_and_her_Cycle.jpg miniseries]{{Dead link}}, they even have stylised horses' heads. Knight's bike "Anastasia" can even follow a scent!
** Some other 50s stories, however [http://blog.newsarama.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10087/normal_Silver_Age_Knight_and_Squire_4.jpg take it too far]{{Dead link}}.
* When [[Jonah Hex]] was transported to the post-appocolyptic future in the series ''Hex'', he swapped his horse for a cool motorcycle.
* In ''[[Top Ten]]: The Forty-Niners'', the Black Rider is a Zorro-inspired hero who "cuts a dashing figure" atop his motorcycle Midnight. When he shows it off to Leni he claims he named it after a horse he once owned.
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=== FilmFan Works ===
* In ''[[Make a Wish (fanfic)|Make a Wish]]'', Mr. Black (secretly [[Harry Potter]]) eventually gets a motorcycle into which is bound a white pouka -- a horselike faerie creature. When he rides it, sometimes people see the pouka and not the bike.
* [https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/1841643 This fan art] of Saber from ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' shows her as a "motored [[wikipedia:cuirassier|cuirassier]]".
 
=== Film ===
* In [[The Movie]], [[Ghost Rider]] has a demonic motorbike that includes a horse's skull.
** Considering that his [[Legacy Character|direct predecessor]] is shown using a horse for the same role, [[Fridge Brilliance|this makes sense.]]
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* Although we do not see any motorcycles in both films, in the ''[[Cars]]'' series films, motorcycles are implied to be their equivalent of horses.
* The Japanese live action ''[[Gun Crazy]]'' films included "A Woman from Nowhere", which has the title character ride a motorcycle in a modern-day version of a Western.
* Marlboro in ''[[Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man]]'' is a cowboy (actually he just dresses and smokes like one and participates in Rodeosrodeos) who rides a motorcycle instead of a horse.
 
 
=== Literature ===
* ''[[Good Omens]]'': The [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]] now ride motorcycles.
* In ''The Devil's Rose'', the protagonist is an undead Texas Ranger who tracks down fugitive souls from hell. His horse demon mount...thing gets mauled shortly into the story so he saws off its head and attaches it to a motorcycle. Later, he attaches it to a car.
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=== Live Action TV ===
* In ''[[Kamen Rider Kuuga]]'', the Gouram was originally armor for a horse that the original ancient Kuuga would ride. When Kuuga returned in the modern day, it adapted to work with a motorcycle instead.
* One episode of ''[[Kolchak the Night Stalker|Kolchak: The Night Stalker]]'' featured a Hell's Angel riff on the classic [[Headless Horseman]] myth.
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=== Music ===
* This trope is used as lyrics for [[Manowar]] song "Return of the Warlord"
* [[Bon Jovi]]'s "Wanted Dead or Alive":
{{quote|''I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride,
''I'm wanted dead or alive }}
 
 
=== Tabletop Games ===
* In the RPG ''[[wikipedia:index.html?curid=2619246|Diana: Warrior Princess]]'', Diana's mount is a motorcycle with a horse mind.
* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' [[Space Marines]] will occasionally make use of squads mounted on massive motor cycles in the same manner as classical cavalry. The White Scars chapter is especially noted for it. They've been called [[Recycled in Space|Mongols on Motorbikes]] before for a reason.
 
 
=== Video Games ===
* There was a rumor about a ''Zelda'' game called ''A Link to the Future'', in which Link would ride a motorcycle called "Epona".
** and in the DLC for the most recent game, Breath of the Wild. Link can acquire the Master Cycle Zero, a magitech motorbike given as a reward for clearing the Champion's Ballad storyline.
 
 
=== Webcomics ===
* [[Main/ptitlehpgydodt 1 jb 7|Dr. McNinja]]'s]] magic motorbike Sparklelord is actually a transformed - no, not a horse, but {{spoiler|close. It is a unicorn.}}
 
 
=== Western Animation ===
* On ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', cowboy-themed hero Vigilante rides a motorcycle.
* In one of the ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' movies, there's a spear-wielding ghost knight who has a ghost horse. Fred tries to fight him using a motorcycle and a long iron pipe.
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=== Real Life ===
* A common vehicle in 3rd-world Asia is the "autorickshaw", essentially a buggy pulled by a motorcycle.
* [http://www3.nfb.ca/fm455w/Collections/Photos/WWII/Rubrique3_Le_front_interieur/Section2_Le_recrutement_et_la_conscription/3-2-1ENG_c087430k.jpg This] recruitment poster.
 
=== Basically the same principle, but not with motorbikes ===▼
 
=== Anime and manga ===▼
▲=== Basically the same principle, but not with motorbikes ===
 
▲== Anime and manga ==
* In the ''[[Saiyuki]]'' series, Sanzo's mount is a jeep rather than the horse used by his mythical counterpart. It still gets swallowed by a dragon, however, and both continue to serve him after that. The most significant difference from the original is that there's now room for his entire party to ride with him.
 
 
=== Film ===
* Nellybelle, the loyal steed of [[Roy Rogers]]' sidekick Pat Brady, was a jeep. (Being a sidekick, Pat didn't rate a Cool Conveyance; when he went by hoof, he got a mule.) Roy himself always rode his [[Cool Horse]] Trigger, even in modern-day adventures.
* In one film adaptation of ''[[Richard III]]'', the title character is a Nazi. Upon getting his car stuck in mud, he yells the famous "A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!" line.
 
 
=== Literature ===
* In ''On a Pale Horse'', the first of [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]]'' series, the [[Grim Reaper]]'s pale horse can become a pale [[Cool Car]], or a pale [[Cool Boat]].
* In ''[[Smoke Signals]]'', Thomas calls trucks ponies.
 
 
=== Live-Action TV ===
* In ''[[Supernatural]]'', the Four Horsemen ride in classic cars (Red Mustang for War, Pale Cadillac for Death).
* The ''[[Myth BustersMythBusters]]'' bought an old Jeep, fitted it with a foam horsehead, painted it black and used it to test a mounted archery myth.
 
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