Peter Fonda & Captain America 1969
Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper both had two bikes each for the "Easy Rider" movie.
His "Easy Rider" is a boss flick and one to be sure to see.
It deals with things as they are.
Fonda and Hopper filmed on the road and used real sets and people.
The results were excellent.
Ben Hardy
Brother Ben Hardy is the man behind the most of the Easy Rider bike construction.
The man responsible for co-ordinating the bike building effort is Cliff Vaughs.
Cliff worked with Fonda to get the right people to do the job on the bikes.
For instance, Ben Hardy (brother Ben) added his thing by gathering all of the
parts neccesary for the job.
Brother Ben
Ben and Cliff retained the early cradle frame (48-56) and took it to
Buchanan's frame shop for a rake of 45 degrees. The neck was cut off
and repositioned so that the forks make an angel with a vertical line of
45 degrees. The glide forks had to be lengthened 12 inches to compensate
for the wild rake.
Ben Hardy's Shop at 1168 E. Florence in Los Angeles
Stock glide risers are bolted to the '57 top triple tree and fitted with
a set of A.E.E. triple trees which in turn have dogbones mounted on
them and a set of 13" highriser bars.
Fonda and Vaughs told Dean Lanza (the Dean of bike painters) to make
the bike look like Capt. America's Shield... and it does !!
Fonda had added a giant moneymaker to Movieland.
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