What we need is good biker movie!

Didn't Phil Spector and Robert Blake do time for murdering their girlfriends in real life? Did some googling; Robert Blake was the bike riding Cop in Electroglide In Blue, and Phil Spector had a cameo in Easy Rider as a high-rolling drug dealer.
 
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Didn't Phil Spector and Robert Blake do time for murdering their girlfriends in real life? Did some googling; Robert Blake was the bike riding Cop in Electroglide In Blue, and Phil Spector had a cameo in Easy Rider as a high-rolling drug dealer.
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Blake and his wife visited a restaurant ....... they left and went back to their parked car around the corner . Blake returned to the restaurant to retrieve something he`d left behind or something like that , leaving his wife sitting in the car ........... Returned to the car and found her shot dead ...........
It seemed they didn`t really get on ......... A trial failed through lack of evidence .... ( it was thought Blake hired someone to carry out the shooting ) ........ but some sort of civil enquiry later on reckoned he had arranged it all ...............


Spector invited part time actor and would be comedian Lana Clarkson back to his house ... ( they had met earlier in the evening ) . She was found dead in a chair with a gunshot wound to the head .

Spector reckoned she had inflicted the wound herself , but he had a history of fooling around with guns .... ask George Harrison and The Ramones ( ok they`re dead , but you know what I mean ) ........

Spectors driver , who was still stood outside , said Spector ran out of the house shouting " She`s dead , I shot her " ......... but Spector later claimed she did it herself ........

When Spector was taken into police custody , he was telling the assembled officers that he reckoned that he held the rights to all Monty Python material in the USA ............. nothing like a bit of small talk after you`ve just shot someone ............
One of the officers said .... " That`s interesting , I`ve got some connections with Monty Python myself ....... " .......

Turns out this officer was Terry Gilliam`s brother .............

Not sure if it`s true , but it makes a nice story .............
 
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The Leather Boys ........

Johnny Briggs ( Mike Baldwin from Coronation Street ) wins a race on his Ariel Arrow 250 with Rita Tush -Tush sat on the back .........


Going off on a tangent entirely .........

When Coronation Street`s Ken Barlow finds out wife Diedre had been seeing his old rival Mike Baldwin behind his back , he goes in disgust .......... " Him ? ..... Pick up a stone and out crawls Baldwin .... " ........

Always makes me laugh .........
 
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Saw a film once set in the early 1900s about a Cross-America coast-to-coast race. It was made in the 70s or 80s. Saw it once in an Indy cinema and never found any mention of it again. It was very well done, using pretty authentic vintage bikes and an actual plot.
 
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