I keep a reasonably keen eye and ear on motorbikes in films and the TV, you’d kind of expect that, really.
I’ve just finished watching The Contractor where Chris Pine’s Yamahaha FZ6N stays the true to the cause but, unusually, Chris Pine’s visor changes from clear to fully blacked-out and back to clear a couple of times during just one trip. Well, I kind of forgive that because they were just hiding the face of the stunt double.
But in Rambo First Blood, the Yamahaha XT250 somehow becomes a 2-stroke partway though the film. That’s not really forgivable, no.
How about, in Michael (lens flare) Bay’s first Transformers film where the Aprilia RSV1000-R somehow takes on the audio qualities of an inline four in the soundtrack? That’s just bad.
Then there’s the infamously famous Mission Impossible double=bill cockup. In Mission Impossible Fallout the BMW R9T (a flat twin) somehow becomes an inline 4 on the soundtrack. And in Mission Impossible 2 where, during the course of a bike-to-bike chase, the Triumph’s tyres switch from road to off-road a couple of times which is a truly marvellous achievement.
What has always annoyed me, is how in MI2, the Speed Triple that Cruise is riding is easily caught and bumped by a big ol’ American SUV.
It would never happen!
I love the sound of a Triumph triple, it’s a unique noise so distinctive in a world of 2s and 4s and the Striple carries the sound so well. I tried a Striple once. It’s a lovely machine but I felt like I was sitting on it; I wasn’t part of it. So I went out and bought my first Daytona 955i. And now Triumph has stopped making big triple sportsbikes (I’ve tried the Striple 12 and that feels like I’m sitting on it too). So sad. All this talk of bikes has got me going. I think I’ll take the Ninja out tomorrow.