40 Retro Photos of Celebrities Looking Cool on Motorcycles
Two wheels are better than four.
Our parents told us that motorcycles weren't cool. Too dangerous, they said. Well, they were wrong. Motorcycles look awesome. Even more so when a famous person is riding them. Here are 40 retro photos of celebrities looking impossibly cool on two wheels.
Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda ride their choppers—with Luke Askew on the back of Fonda's—in a publicity still for the 1969 film Easy Rider.
Brigitte Bardot rehearses for a New Year's Eve television show in Paris in 1967.
Richard Crenna challenges Steve McQueen to a race, pedicab vs. motorcycle, on the set of The Sand Pebbles in 1966.
Clint Eastwood poses for a publicity photo for his 1968 movie Coogan's Bluff.
Mick Jagger gets a ride to a show in 1976.
Christie Brinkley rides a motorcycle with Olivier Chandon in 1982.
Hunter S. Thompson sits on his Penton motorcycle with a rifle on his Aspen ranch in 1976.
Fats Domino on a Dax Honda motorbike in France in 1980.
Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke film a scene for The Gauntlet in 1977.
Grace Jones sits on a motorcycle with Jimmy Baio, Divine, an exotic dancer, and an unidentified woman in 1981.
Cher rides her Harley in a Harley-Davidson parade in Beverly Hills in 1994.
The Jacksons take a family photo at their home in California in 1971.
Paul Simonon of the Clash and Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols ride motorcycles together in 1987.
Meatloaf on his motorbike in 1978.
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris, Chevy Chase, and John Belushi film an SNL sketch in 1978.
Josh Brolin attends a motorcycle ride to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association in 1988.
Mr. T poses on a motorbike in 1983.
Elvis Presley on the set of Clambake in 1976.
Lenny Kravitz gets his picture taken on a motorcycle in 1996.
Elizabeth Taylor attends a motorcycle rally in 1987.
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