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Same motorcycle from MEGAFORCE?

posted 16 years ago by MikeD2112
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I saw this film at a theater sometime around 1984-85 and I've had it on video ever since it was first released...one of my favorite low-budget Mad Max ripoffs (or 'Sad Max's', as I call them).
Anyway, when I first saw the movie, I noticed that the bike that Michael Beck rides in the film looks just like the one he drove in 'Megaforce' earlier in 1982; the solid mag wheels & the fairing are identical. I've always wondered if he somehow ended up with the bike after 'Megaforce' & they just re-used it in 'Warlords'. Heck, if I was the producer & was trying to choose my leading man on a budget this small, I'd probably lean toward the one who had his own stunt vehicle that the movie could be based around, too!
Just wondering if anyone here ever thought the same thing or if anyone could confirm this useless piece of trivia...

[–] 16 years ago

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[–] Lothar_Quint 10 years ago

[–] Balibari 9 years ago

I'm saying no. Although both bikes are going for a similar look the fairings around the front are clearly not the same. Maybe one of the Megaforce bikes was adapted into this one (assuming Battletruck was shot after Megaforce), but it seems unlikely. The movies were made by different production companies in different countries. Bikes like this would be dirt cheap to knock up, it would probably have cost more to ship one to NZ than make one locally. I don't buy Beck taking one home from one movie then butchering it to use in another movie, but who knows? The fact is there's not much you can do with a bike to make it look futuristic so they all end up looking similar.