Motorcycle and riding trope errors

[scooterwuf]

This always seems to come up. You're watching a movie or TV show where someone is riding a motorcycle, and then the actor/director/writer does something stupid that clearly shows they don't know anything about riding.

Here are some of my pet peeves:

- Rider parks their bike and just whips their helmet off. No unbuckling or straps, Just pulls it off.

- A character jumps on a MC for the first time and knows how to ride it.

I can add more, but anyone have those motorcycle/riding trope errors that drive you craze?

- Wolf

 

[L. Bilious]

M.I. 2(?) with Tom Cruise. The Triumph off roading (you can see it change from road tyres to knobblies) and shooting a pistol whilst doing a stoppie.

 

[scooterwuf]

Is this the crazy scene you mean?

- Wolf

 

[L. Bilious]

Is this the crazy scene you mean?

- Wolf

Yep.
Great cinema, but unrealistic riding.

 

[R-Rated]

I am a big fan of the TV show CHiPs. Until riding a motorcycle myself, I never realized Ponch would deploy his kickstand before coming to a complete stop a lot!

I guess he never worried about having to take back off after the bad guy.

 

[motosera]

Yes, drive me insane. Pretty much every car/bike movie with a chase in it.

Being an engineer I also despair at any workshop activities shown onscreen.

But the one thing that annoys me more than anything is unrealistic gunfights - being a prolific shooter there is nothing more annoying that that for me

Perhaps I just a miserable git!

 

[scooterwuf]

I enjoyed the movie, but the motorcycle chase/fightscene in John Wick 3 was impossible. I’ve been fencing for almost 30 years, trust me no one would use a sword while on a bike (or any weapon) when you need both hands to operate it. Plus, why attack the rider if you could just slash a tire?

 

[scooterwuf]

The behind the scenes is interesting.

-Wolf

 

[R-Rated]

I enjoyed the movie, but the motorcycle chase/fightscene in John Wick 3 was impossible. I’ve been fencing for almost 30 years, trust me no one would use a sword while on a bike (or any weapon) when you need both hands to operate it. Plus, why attack the rider if you could just slash a tire?

There is a motor officer in South Africa that used his pistol while riding so some weapons can be used. The first person POV is on YouTube.

There is a movie called City Limits that MST3K panned where they had motorcycle jousting. Interesting concept.

 

[HippoDrone]

Me and some mates were gonna do motojousting as an event in our 125Hundreds race series we came up with, were gonna use BB guns instead of lances though!

 

[scooterwuf]

I can see a gun being used because you can holster it. but a sword is just crazy. Crazy can be fun when pushed too.

- Wolf

 

[HippoDrone]

How do you think ye old knights managed? I've ridden horses... they often need two hands as well!

 

[LoneWolfer]

Sons of Anarchy had tons of annoying moments like this. The most annoying was when they all ride in and park straight on in parking spots or driveways and then when they leave are able to just take off without spending five minutes doing a ten point turn with all the bikes to get pointed the right direction.

 

[R-Rated]

Me and some mates were gonna do motojousting as an event in our 125Hundreds race series we came up with, were gonna use BB guns instead of lances though!

 

[LandyVlad]

Yeah and motorbike ads which lie outright.

"You meet the nicest people on a Honda" my arse. LOL

But the one thing that annoys me more than anything is unrealistic gunfights - being a prolific shooter there is nothing more annoying that that for me

LOL absolutely. ANY movie featuring guns will get the shooting community (i.e. me) riles up abou tinaccuracies - fromteh very minor "this is set in 1917 but that version of that firearm wasn't released until 1921" through to some seriously ridiculous stupidity.

Arnie as Terminator using thee pump action shotgun on the motorbike.. comes to mind immediately.
Plus anyone holding a pistol sideways 'gangsta style' and hitting anything they are intendsing to shoot.

 

[scooterwuf]

Yep, horses I can see as they ride themselves, and I'm guessing there's a level of control delivered through the legs if the hands are occupied.

I've ridding one before, and I'm not afraid of horses, but they kind of freak me out. Standing next to something that can kick or step on you is a little unsettling.

- Wolf