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    Easy Riders

    Jul 04, 2018 5 minutes
    WORDS & PHOTOS RUSS MURRAY

    THE 1969 movie Easy Rider was a story of two freewheeling bikers who rode across the American south-west carrying the proceeds of a drug deal and aiming to reach New Orleans in time for the Mardi Gras festival. Starring Peter Fonda as Wyatt and Dennis Hopper as Billy, the movie captured the imagination of the world as it explored the counter-culture of the day — hippies, communes, all kinds of drugs and a lifestyle of ‘freedom’.

    “WE ESPECIALLY LIKE THE COKE BOTTLE OPENER SCREWED TO THE FRAME”

    Jack Nicholson also got his big break as drunken lawyer George Hanson, but for many folk the real stars were the two hard-tail choppers, both built around Harley-Davidson Panhead engines. Billy’s flame-tanked custom was probably the better thing

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