History Main / CoolBike

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4lxZgw2Sseo SXPD]]'' from the ''Little Chicken Game Company'' is set in a B & W dystopian future comic book. You are a rookie of the SXPD, a lethal motorcycle division of the police, so you get an armoured motorbike with twin machine guns and some anti-vehicle rockets.

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4lxZgw2Sseo SXPD]]'' from the ''Little Chicken Game Company'' is set in a B & W dystopian future comic book. You are a rookie of the SXPD, a lethal motorcycle division of the police and you get a souped-up police motorbike with a built-in twin machine guns.

* ''[[https://www.google.com/url?q=https://m.youtube.com/ SXPD]]'' from the ''Little Chicken Game Company'' is set in a B & W dystopian future comic book. You are a rookie of the SXPD, a lethal motorcycle division of the police and you get a souped-up police motorbike with a built-in twin machine guns.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'': EVA's BMW R75 with optional CoolSidecar, and the way she rides it would put UsefulNotes/EvelKnievel to shame.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'': The Triumph Bonneville ridden by Big Mama[[spoiler:/EVA]] and the Speed Triples ridden by her subordinates in Act 3; it helps that they're also real-world cool bikes.

** ''Series/KamenRiderGotchard'': Gotchard rides Golddash, one of the series' "Chemy" {{Mons}} that were brought to life with the power of UsefulNotes/{{Alchemy}}. Besides being a living creature, it has arms to grab things with on its cowling. In addition, one of the other vehicle Chemies is a spiked-wheel bicycle named Spicle. In theory, Gotchard can FusionDance with them like he can with other Chemies, but we don't know if he'll actually do so in the series.

* ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' has a flying bike called the Sky-Cycle.
* ''ComicBook/WerewolfByNight'''s Jack Russell rides one. And unlike his cars, he has thus far managed to not crash it once.

* The cover of Music/JudasPriest's ''Painkiller'' album features a metallic WingedHumanoid riding a draconic motorcycle with ''buzz saws for wheels''.

** [[Series/KamenRiderRyuki Ryuki's and Knight's]] BondCreatures could become motorcycles when in SuperMode - still remaining very much sentient. All Riders in the series also have access to a common type of bike called the Ride Shooter, taking the Rider through the portal to the mirror world.
*** The American adaptation ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'' actually added more, by having the characters' normal motorcycles transform along with them when they became Kamen Riders. The Riders also have awesome real-world bikes during non-spandex time. There's an awesome scene near the end with six Riders, finally on the same page - even TheHero and the EvilTwin! - riding out of [[TheMenInBlack MIB]] headquarters unmorphed as a Cool Bike-riding, [[HellBentForLeather cool jacket-wearing]] squad, ready to kick butt and take names.
*** More bike awesome from KRDK: ''Mirror world bike chase.'' The sneaky Torque found out that Xaviax is too smart for TheStarscream, and new TheDragon, polite but sociopathic Strike, is hunting him. Torque rides for his life, and on the street, it looks like a guy riding crazily for no reason. Only we can see that in the reflections in doors and windows, Strike is right on his tail. Torque eventually thinks he's lost Strike, when several stories up, the reflected Strike emerges into reality and drops in right behind him.

*** Delta doesn't get a unique bike, but he's usually associated with the Jet Sliger, a behemoth with five large jet engines to give it its name and a truly overkill amount of weapons. Every Rider apparently has one but only Delta really uses his. (Faiz' Jet Sliger gets blown to scrap in its ''introduction episode'' during a battle with Delta. Kaixa ''presumably'' has one if the other two do, but it is never summoned.) Also, its wheels are ''spheres,'' and it can travel sideways if desired.

** [[Series/KamenRiderKiva Kiva's]] Machine Kivaa has the brain of a horse monster, turns invisible at high speed, and has an enhancement booster that nullifies wind resistance. It's also the only chopper-style Rider machine, and is generally awesome-looking. Ixa's Ixalion, despite the cool name, is simply a custom bike. Saga doesn't have a unique bike, but Taiga owns a Honda DN-01, which he never uses as Saga.

** [[Series/KamenRiderGhost Ghost's]] Machine Ghostriker, which is a normal motorcycle that transforms alongside Ghost and can combine with the [[CoolBoat Captain Ghost]] miniature pirate ship to turn it into the Iguana Ghostriker, a giant iguana mecha. Specter has the Machine Hoodie, which holds the spirit of Creator/HarryHoudini; when Specter is channelling Houdini's power, the Machine Hoodie opens up to be used either as a jetpack or as a hoverboard.

** [[Series/KamenRiderZeroOne Zero-One]] has the Rise Hopper. Like Build's, it transforms from a smartphone, but there's a difference in execution; Build's phone would actively change size, while Zero-One uses his normal phone to summon a second, ''giant'' phone which then unfolds into a bike. (So why is the bike itself phone-shaped? Who cares; [[MerchandiseDriven it's toyetic]].)

** ''Series/KamenRiderRevice'': For the first time, the bike is tied to the franchise's SwissArmyHero gimmick. Kamen Riders Revi and Vice transform into different "Genome" forms together; and Vice's Ptera Genome form is a hovercycle that Revi can ride. And even better, it's not just CGI trickery (though they do use that too) -- Toei partnered with an actual hoverbike manufacturer to feature a custom version of their bike in the show. Plus, as all the Genome forms are designed to resemble prior Riders, Vice's hovercycle form has a paint job that calls back to Faiz and the Auto Vajin.
** One of the perks of the "Boost" powerup in ''Series/KamenRiderGeats'' is access to a motorcycle called the Boostriker, which can turn into an animal robot that assists with {{Finishing Move}}s (generally a [[AsianFoxSpirit kitsune]] since that's Geats' motif, but is modified as needed to match other Riders' themes).

* ''Film/{{Oblivion 2013}}'' : Harper's motorcycle - which is collapsible so it can be carried on the Bubble Ship's storage space, has integral winch and sensors, and is pretty rugged. [[spoiler: Pity that [[HumiliationConga it gets stolen early in the movie, and then soon after Harper gets it back it runs out of gas]].]]

* ''Film/{{Oblivion 2013}}'' : Harper's motorcycle-which is collapsible so it can be carried on the Bubble Ship's storage space, has integral winch and sensors, and is pretty rugged. [[spoiler: Pity that [[HumiliationConga it gets stolen early in the movie, and then soon after Harper gets it back it runs out of gas]].]]

*** Captain America rides his own souped-up motorcycle into one of the battles with HYDRA, which he then throws at one of their tanks as in improvised projectile.

Ever since the end of World War Two, motorcycles have been seen as the absolute coolest way to travel. Whether they are traveling through the desert, city streets, a [[MotorcycleOnTheCoastRoad coastal road]], or [[RuleOfCool up a wall]], the bike can promote an aura of awesome that is unmatched by an other everyday vehicle. Riding a motorcycle lends an aura of independence and [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys attractive danger]] to the rider.

* Music/RichardThompson's song "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" is about a very cool bike.[[note]]Thompson has said in interviews that he chose the '52 Black Lightning because when he was a child, that was the coolest, most aspirational bike he knew of. In fact, it may be ''too'' cool for strict plausibility; the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Black_Lightning Black Lightning]] was a factory special build that was the fastest bike in the world in its time, and accordingly expensive, and only 31 were ever built, surely putting it beyond the means of the song's BadassBiker criminal protagonist, even if he had "robbed many a man" to get it.[[/note]]

* Music/RichardThompson's song "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"

* ''VideoGame/Ashes2063'': Scav, the PlayerCharacter, owns an EZE Tesla-Glide 79 chopper, a motorcycle that most minor characters you can speak to have only praise for and some show interest in buying it off him. It's his go-to for crossing the wasteland, and fast enough to cross large gaps in roads, sometimes without needing a ramp.

** ''Toys/RoboRiders'' were bizarre, alien, motorbike-shaped HumongousMecha. A strange but fine idea, however the even weirder execution (not giving them characterization and having the riders be the ''wheels''... oh, and the wheels are also the ''[[AbnormalAmmo ammunition]]'') lead to the line becoming a failure because kids didn't know where to put the concept.

So you've got a badass. Or a [[TheDrifter loner]]. Or an ActionHero or ActionGirl. Now (s)he needs a suitable way to get from Point A to Point B. Because walking isn't very impressive unless you're [[UnflinchingWalk calmly walking away from the carnage you just caused]], or {{power walk}}ing toward the carnage you intend to cause.

* The Garland units in ''Anime/MegaZone23'' combine Cool Bikes with TransformingMecha.

** The Master Cycle Zero returns in DLC for the prequel ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'' as an additional weapon set... for ''Zelda'', not Link. In-game blurbs suggest that she's really taken to it to the max.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'': Main protagonist Wes has a hoverbike monstrosity that could count as this. It has a ''massive'' engine in front that looks like it was ripped out of an eighteen-wheeler, and no wheel or any visible hovering mechanism in the front, leaving it held up by RuleOfCool alone. It even has a sidecar that his Espeon and Umbreon ride in (Rui takes the seat once he rescues her).

* ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' turns the standard bike into one by giving it Rotom-powered speed boosts and the eventual ability to cross water.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' has the cover Legendaries double as motorcycle transportation. Befitting the theme of past vs. future, Koraidon is based on a 1950s chopper and Miraidon is based on the touring motorbikes we see today.

* [[Characters/DCComicsLobo Lobo]]'s spacehog, his custom ''Spaz-Frag 666'' that acts as his personal transport everywhere from terrestrial locations [[InSpace to deep space]]. It can reach warp speed and once it was even a fully functional TimeMachine. Can be also a [[HammerSpace Flying Arsenal]] filled to the exhaust with several of the deadliest weapons in the known universe and it even responds to his whistle commands.

* [[Characters/DCComicsLobo Lobo]]'s spacehog, his custom ''[=SpazFrag666=]''' that acts as his personal transport everywhere from terrestrial locations to deep space. It can be turned into a warp speeder and once it was even a fully functional TimeMachine. It even responds to his whistle commands.

* Lobo's spacehog, a custom [=SpazFrag666=] that acts as his personal transport everywhere from terrestrial locations to deep space. It even responds to his whistle commands.

** She gives Stephanie Brown (the third Batgirl) one in ''ComicBook/Batgirl2009''.

** She uses it in her ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2011}}'' solo book the whole time.
** She gave Stephanie Brown -the third Batgirl- one in ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2009}}''.

* ''Franchise/TheFlash'': Hot Pursuit, an AlternateUniverse Barry Allen who lacks his SuperSpeed, rides a bike that is powered by the [[MetaOrigin Speed Force]]. Its wheels appear to be made of pure [[LightningCanDoAnything speed energy]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys'': [[spoiler:Diane]] owns a sleek white motorcycle that can be [[TransformingVehicle disguised as a briefcase]].

* A subversion in ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}''. Celty's Cool Bike is actually a CoolHorse disguised as one. You can tell by the fact that it makes no noise, only whinnies and it [[TheShadowKnows has the shadow of a horse]].