#Mad max fury road motorcycles movie
#Mad max fury road motorcycles series

Incidentally, replicas of GooseвЂ™s bike were being sold by Japanese company Whitehouse as recently as 2002.ДЄlthough overshadowed cars and trucks, bikes do feature prominently in Fury Road. The gang themselves wereВ played by members of a local Victoria-based motorcycle club. In fact, La Parisienne reportedly modified a total of 13 bikes for the movie. Toecutter (played by Hugh Keays-Bryne, who, interestingly, also plays lead baddie Immortan Joe in Fury Road) is the leader of the outlaw biker gang in the original 1979 Mad Max and rides a black Z1000 with a similar La Parisienne fairing to that of Goose (see above). We donвЂ™t know much about the bike but reckon itвЂ™s a heavily modified 2007-8 Yam R1. 25 years in the making, filmed mostly in the arid deserts of Namibia and featuring, reportedly, 150 bikes and cars conceived by production designer Colin Gibson and built by the Fury Road company, the film is already receiving rave reviews for its action sequences in part due to director George MillerвЂ™s insistence on minimal CGI. Max doesnвЂ™t ride a bike in the first three Mad Max films, being associated most with his modified Ford Falcon police interceptor вЂ“ but he does, briefly, in Fury Road.

The story goes that the production crew couldnвЂ™t actually get hold of a Katana, so modified the Kawasaki instead. He rode a Kawasaki 900 or 1000 dressed up with a Craig Vetter fairing and was reportedly inspired by the then new Suzuki Katana. Played by Vernon Wells, Wez is distinguished as much by his bike, a Craig Vetter fairing equipped Z900/1000 as by his Mohawk and riding partner вЂGolden YouthвЂ™. Wez is one of the standout characters in baddie Lord HumungusвЂ™s Marauders gang in 1981вЂ™s follow-up вЂMad Max 2: The Road WarriorвЂ™. GooseвЂ™s bike is actually a 1977 Kawa Z1000 modified with fairings by Melbourne-based La Parisienne, who unfortunately went out of business a few years after the film was released. After arresting and beating up вЂJohnny the boyвЂ™, sidekick to gang leader вЂToecutterвЂ™, Goose is later brutally attacked. вЂGooseвЂ™ is the best friend of lead character Max Rockatansky (played by Mel Gibson).

#Mad max fury road motorcycles series

One of the most iconic bikes of the whole Mad Max series came in the original 1979 flick вЂ“ the MFP (Main Force Patrol) pursuit machine of officer Jim Goose played by Steve Bennetts Biking Services Limitedey. It also sees a return to its roots as a car and bike fest so, to celebrate this, weвЂ™ve picked out the 10 best Mad Max motorcycles from the entire seriesвЂ¦. This time round, Max is played, not by Mel Gibson, but by Brit Tom Hardy, supported by Charlize Theron and bike-nut Nicholas Hoult.

#Mad max fury road motorcycles movie

Apocalyptic road movie Mad Max Fury Road, follows on from the 1979 original вЂMad MaxвЂ™, its celebrated 1981 sequel, вЂMad Max II The Road WarriorвЂ™ and the slightly less well-received 1985 Follow up, вЂMad Max Beyond ThunderdomeвЂ™, in being an action-drenched, punky, petrol-head chase movie soused in mad-cap cars, bikes and stunts. This Friday sees the release of the latest, long overdue and hugely anticipated instalment of the Mad Max movie series.