Choppers, Road Hogs and Bikes: Vintage Photos of Motorcycles on the Road
What do Evel Knievel, the pope, and Ronald Reagan have in common? Motorcycles! See vintage images of road trips past.
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What do Evel Knievel, the pope, Ronald Reagan, and this cute dog have in common? Motorcycles! Check out these vintage images.
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What do Evel Knievel, the pope, Ronald Reagan, and this cute dog have in common? Motorcycles! Check out these vintage images.
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Bob Dylan behind the Cafe at Woodstock.
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Clint Eastwood rides a motorcycle in a scene from the1968's Coogan's Bluff.
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The Season 3 episode "Motorcyle," which aired in 1975, features the Happy Days gang on bikes.
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Paul McCartney sits astride his motor bike in 1965.
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British actress Jane Asher, girlfriend of Paul McCartney, rides in 1965.
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Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visited Los Angeles and San Francisco in a motorcade guarded by a fleet of mean-looking choppers. Here he is pictured on his way to Hollywood to visit film studios, where he was given a warm welcome by a bevy of celebrities, including none other than Marilyn Monroe.
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Bellbottoms flapping in the wind, a young man rides his chopper in Daytona Beach in April 1973.
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Stunt legend and professional daredevil Evel Knievel soared over a line of cars at the Continental Divide Raceways in Castle Rock, Colo., on July 30, 1972—as always, in his signature red, white, and blue leather suit.
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That's not Daft Punk Ronald Reagan is shaking hands with—it's two motorcycle police officers in North Carolina, during the would-be president's first campaign.
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In 1979, Pope John Paul II rolled into New York City on his way to the United Nations in a motorcade guarded by two lines of police officers on motorcycles.
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A couple takes a spin on a chopper on Route 48 in Dayton, Ohio in 1966.
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A gang of motorcyclists stops at a bike-repair shop and diner in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 2000. That's a lot of leather.
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Just like a page out of Awkward Family Photos, this family, snapped together in 1971, not only managed to squeeze all five members onto the same bike—they wore matching helmets as well.
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Hundreds of motorcyclists descend on Washington, D.C., on a Memorial Day weekend to parade in protest of the Vietnam War.
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Two bikers await a trail ride in Sturgis, S.D., in August 2008.
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A border-patrol agent drives a four-wheeler along a spotlit wall in Smuggler's Gulch, near San Diego.
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Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, and Peter Fonda ride through the countryside on motorcycles in a still from the 1969 film Easy Rider, which Hopper directed.
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A man named Joe Camarei rides a motorcycle with his goggled and helmeted sidekick, Seymour, through the streets of Stroudsburg, Penn.
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