Easy Rider bike to auction Oct. 18

[Ross]

With so many possibilities of bikes either directly or indirectly connected to the actual picture I just can't see anyone paying huge coin for something that foggy. However a couple of millionaires with a few cocktails at a big auction and who knows. Hopefully for someone it won't be like waking up in the morning with a hangover and looking over at what you went home with.

[Chris Haynes]

Still like to know the acquisition story of the Anamosa bike.

It is may be one of "The originals" sold by Dan Haggerty.

[Steve Swan]

Sounds like another BS story...

Robbie's and Eric's great first hand accounts are about the only believable information posted so far about these bikes.

The other stories are the cool part about Easy Rider 45 years later; the details of the movie have become legendary and mythical with the truth mixed in.... somewhere in between.

Never paid much attention to these bikes and related stories of props made for the movie, but this thread got me to do a little internet "research," FWIW.

IMHO, Jack sitting on a bike in an upright lithotomy position behind Peter with Jack's knees "clamped" in to Peter's sides breaks Peter's ribs...?! Maybe... if an actual clamp was applied to Jack's knees... ! As a medical professional of 41 years, this broken rib story sounds more like a tall tale spun after a drinking drugging spree. Would seem more likely Fonda stumbled and fell while in an alcohol/marijuana induced stupor. Or Fonda's ribs were broken when the 'rednecks' put their clubs him, Hopper and Nicholson.

Certainly not that Wikipedia is "the truth," but here's an excerpt from Wiki on "Easy Rider" "The motorcycles for the film, based on hardtail frames and panhead engines, were designed and built by two African-American chopper builders—Cliff Vaughs and Ben Hardy—following ideas of Peter Fonda, and handled by Tex Hall and Dan Haggerty during shooting." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Rider

FWIW, interesting links to Vaughs and Hardy... http://www.mrzip66.com/2012/06/26/th...-cliff-vaughs/ http://thevintagent.blogspot.com/200...n-america.html

another interesting link... asserts ONE rib was broken not three as noted in the "thumbnail" story... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064276/trivia

Apparently the AMA believes Fonda and Haggerty built the bikes... http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/asp/...ike.asp?id=117

Again, these stories are the cool part about Easy Rider 45 years later; the details of the movie have become legendary and mythical with the truth mixed in.... somewhere n between.

[rwm]

auctioneers , politicians and clergymen are three people who know what you want to hear. all three will confirm your beliefs for a few bucks.

[wideglide38]

As the age old question goes regarding getting to the center of a tootsie pop and their commercial answer ...... "The World may never know"..... this answer may apply here!

[Magic]

One of the Captain America Panheads whether it was a replica of one of the two Originals was and may still be in the Reading Pa area. I know who the owner is and can't release that info however the Motorcycle was about as correct with Original period Parts as one would know. So if there's one unknown owner he's in Pa and knows his Art.

[Ross]

Haven't heard. Did the bike sell at auction? If so how much?

[Chris Haynes]

One of the Captain America Panheads whether it was a replica of one of the two Originals was and may still be in the Reading Pa area. I know who the owner is and can't release that info however the Motorcycle was about as correct with Original period Parts as one would know. So if there's one unknown owner he's in Pa and knows his Art.

There are no original Captain America bikes.

[rickgeo]

Heard on ABC news that some " Lucky " winner shelled out 1.3 million for it !

[Magic]

What does that mean Chris? Did I see a ghost bike?

[fciron]

Magic,

Chris is referring to the fact that three of the bikes were stolen and believed sold as parts and the fourth bike was the one destroyed in a flaming wreck at the end of the film. The one under discussion here is believed to have been built around the frame of that burnt bike, so it is hardly 'original' by most definitions.