Bikes in Films, continuity fails

junglejim · Banned Joined: 20 Jan 2012 Karma :

Thought I'd start this after watching Dirty Harry tonight.
Towards the end, Clint is being chased in his car by two bike cops on Guzzi California's,which is correct as this is what a lot of US forces used in the 70's, not harleys as many think.
Then Clint dissapears inside a building and the two bike cops dismount and go after him.
He kills one of them, then rushes back outside and nicks one of the bikes, which amazingly during that time, has morphed from a Guzzi V twin, into a Triumph parrallel twin.
He rides off and is chased by the other cop who's bike has also magically transformed from a Guzzi to a Triumph, and a bike chase begins.
OK it's easy to see why they switched, because in the final chase there is some ramp jumping, which wouldn't have suited the heavy and bulky California, but even so, it kinda spoils the effect if you know what you're looking at.
Anyone have any other examples ?

h00dwink · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 May 2006 Karma :

jim carrey in the yes man rides a ducati hypermotard which if you go by the film has a v twin and an inline 4 engine that it switches between.
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firefox · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Karma :

its the same as mission impossible bike chase, one second road tyres next they have off road tyres for the mud, even that little bit spoiled the film for me Sad

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pinkyfloyd · Super Spammer Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Karma :

Matrix Reloaded's Ducati jump off from the top of the transport truck. I doubt the suspension could have taken that height of a drop without the spring blowing with one person on the back let alone 2 up as in the movie.
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mistergixer · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Karma :

Torque.

The whole entire film.
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Actually the entire movie TT3D was pretty unrealistic Thumbs Down

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Mikey3 · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Nov 2011 Karma :

Not sure how a real life documentary can be 'unrealistic' when its filming real life... :s

and Knight and Day had some pretty stupidly unrealistic stunts in it, of which Tom Cruise 'did the stunts himself', which is highly unlikely!
and yes, Torque is ABISMAL

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I find most of the things in movies are made up and not real.
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