Yet, the motorcycle in film actually treads into a wealth of symbolism, ranging from the gun slinging Ole West, a special type of “road” movie and a period of hippie communal lovin’ and acid droppin’.
More obviously, there is the gangs on wheels cliche, with the males wearing helmets, boots and black leather jackets, as a tight-jeaned, bodacious babe holds their waist with her long locks blowing in the wind of the open road.
Motorcyclists and their riders got a bad rap stemming from a July 4, 1947 incident in which a biker gang turned the mainstreet of Hollister, Calif., into a drag strip. Newspapers branded bikers as a social menace. Come 1964 several members of Hells Angels were accused of gang rape in Monterey, Calif., leading to the attorney general circulating warning letters to law enforcement agencies.
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