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Tribute to Dennis Hopper by the Grateful Dead

Dennis Hopper Easy Rider Tribute

httpv://youtu.be/GD0xgD9f5Fk

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dennis Hopper directed and starred in Easy Rider (1969), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer. Journalist Ann Hornaday wrote: “With its portrait of counterculture heroes raising their middle fingers to the uptight middle-class hypocrisies, Easy Rider became the cinematic symbol of the 1960s, a celluloid anthem to freedom, macho bravado and anti-establishment rebellion.”Film critic Matthew Hays notes that “no other persona better signifies the lost idealism of the 1960s than that of Dennis Hopper.

Hopper died at his home in the coastal Los Angeles district of Venice on the morning of May 29, 2010 at the age of 74, due to complications from prostate cancer. (more…)

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Motorcycle Art

Motorcycle Art  – Chopper Art by David Mann

httpv://youtu.be/cquFiX0fWU4

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David “Dave” Mann (September 10, 1940 – September 11, 2004)was a California graphic artist whose paintings celebrated biker culture, and choppers. Called “the biker world’s artist-in-residence,” his images are ubiquitous in biker clubhouses and garages, on motorcycle gas tanks, tattoos, and on t-shirts and other memorabilia associated with biker culture. Choppers have been built based on the bikes first imagined in a David Mann painting. (more…)

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Harley Davidson Motorcycle Crash

Harley Davidson Motorcycle Crash

Harley Davidson Lowside Motorcycle Crash where luckily, the rider was able to walk away.

httpv://youtu.be/sYxU_lYBHpY

In Los Angeles, this video shows a custom Harley Davidson Bagger crash near the Rock Store. Great recovery, the Harley rider used momentum to land back on his feet then just walked away, while his bike was still crashing. Very, very, lucky, he was uninjured except just a quarter size spot of road rash on his knee.

Harley Davidson Bagger riders have to understand that their bike is the exact opposite of a sport bike or crotch rocket. Most Harley Davidson bikes are designed for touring, not for sport riding, and really, the two don’t mix! (more…)

By Oakley, ago