Easy Rider and Chopperguy

Here again with a real update for the dyed in the wool Easy Rider fans.

A person wrote me asking about the plate number on the Captain. As many times as I have watched the film, I never bothered trying to find out. So I decided to give it another look.

Fairly quickly I found a number of 644755 on the Billy Bike. Shortly there after I saw 484483 on Captain America. Both had California plates. Knowing that they used two of each bike in the film, I continued watching to see if they used different plates. I only ever saw these numbers.

I did, however, catch one interesting thing. If you step through the scene of Captain America exploding, you can see the heavy mounting bracket with tail light still attached (not even cracked) but NO license plate. Given the style of the bracket I can't imagine loosing the plate in the crash without damaging any other part of the mounting. They almost certainly removed the plate prior to destroying it.

So, no great epiphany here, but certainly some interesting trivia.

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