Itâs always exciting to see motorcycles in movies. Whether itâs a classic like Easy Rider with bikes at the center of the whole film, or the new Avengers movie that has Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow riding a H-D LiveWireâwe always love seeing two-wheeled machines plastered across the silver screen.
Itâs difficult to tell exactly whatâs what in this photo, but weâre going to do our best to sort things out. First off, after several earlier photos of a rider in a helmet, later being replaced by this masked rider, we believe the first person was a stand-in and the rider seen in the picture above is the actor playing Bruce Wayne himself, Robert Pattinson. Thereâs no real way to confirm this, but weâre 100 percent right 60 percent of the time, so⊠weâre just going to take it as fact.
Second, and more importantly in our eyes, is the bike he is on. You canât see too much of it from this angle, but letâs work with what we got. The motorcycle has been painted matte black, the pipes have been wrapped, rear fender removed, and we can assume those are aftermarket bars. Itâs clearly a double overhead cam, inline four-cylinder engine that looks like itâs from the late â70s or early â80s. Without knowing the stock bike, we canât really say if the spoked wheels are stock or aftermarket, but most DOHC bikes from that period rolled off the line with mags, so weâre going to assume thatâs a custom touch. At first glance, the tank looked like that of a Suzuki GS1000, but the more I look at it, the more I think itâs an aftermarket King Sportster 3.3-gallon unit.
So with the details we can see, this bike could be a GS1000, a KZ1000, XS1100, CB900, CB1100, or any one of a long list of late-â70s/early â80s DOHC sportbikes. But with the custom work thatâs been done to it and this low-res image, itâs really difficult to tell without seeing the machine up close.
Identifying movie bikes is a fun pastime for us, so if you have any mystery bikes youâre trying to figure out, email a picture to Morgan.Gales@bonniercorp.com and weâll sleuth it out for you!