History Main / MotorcycleJousting

-->'''Jouster:''' 'Pon my word! The chap's upside down! Is that allowed in the rules?
-->'''Slippery Jim:''' Course it isn't, you snark! Nobody's ever bothered to '''write''' any rules!
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': In keeping with their theme, [[ComicBook/KnightAndSquire the Knight and the Squire]] (England's equivalent of Batman and Robin) have lances they use from the back of their motorcycle steeds.

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* A one-sided version occurs in ''FanFic/FallOfLiberty''. The Lost MC ride their bikes into zombie hordes while taking them down with baseball bats.

* Indiana Jones charges a Nazi motorcyclist using a flagpole as an improvised lance in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''.

** [[Main/ParodiedTrope Parodied]] on wheelchairs in ''[[Film/ScaryMovie Scary Movie 2]]''.

* In the ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' adaptation of ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat'', "Slippery Jim" [=diGriz=] lands on a FeudalFuture planet and finds the nobility jousting with [[FlyingCar flying motorbikes]]. He finds this rather dull and quickly adds his own unique spin.

* The 1981 George Romero film Knightriders is all about a motorcycle jousting ren faire troop.

%%* At the climax of ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'', Ethan and the BigBad do this.

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* Used by ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'' foe Thrill Devil. How else would one expect a thrill seeker to approach combat with another motorcycle rider?
* This one of the events held during 'Bike Week' in ''ComicBook/SherwoodTexas'' #2. Rob poses as Much to win the contest so Much will be accepted into the Nobles gang.

* The movie ''Film/{{Knightriders}}'' is all about this.
* At the climax of ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'', Ethan and the BigBad do this.

* Used for an EstablishingCharacterMoment for one of the Bohemians in Creator/MattRuff's ''Fool on the Hill''.

* One ''Series/AmericanChopper'' episode had them doing this in pairs, though one was on a scooter.

* ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' did it with bicycles. Close enough to fit.
* Disney's ''Series/{{Jessie}}'' has a ''literal'' example complete with armored riders (thanks to a StoryWithinAStory).

* An episode of ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' features this as part of a parallel universe that seems heavily inspired by ''Film/MadMax''.
* Happens in the ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' episode "[[http://wizardsofwaverlyplace.wikia.com/wiki/Graphic_Novel Graphic Novel]]".

* This is the theme of Music/DaftPunk's music video for "Derezzed"; a fictional videogame of this nature.

* This occurs as a minigame in ''VideoGame/FullThrottle''.
* ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'': in ''Stealing the Diamond'', during the Agressive scenario, Henry can try this when rushing through the museum on his scooter. It fails because Henry loses his balance, so the lance strikes the ground and Henry is catapulted off his scooter. The fail screen even comments on this.

* Hal Jordan does this (on a flying motorbike) as part of a tournament in the ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Heir Apparent".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did this once, in an episode where Homer won a motorcycle in a steak-eating contest.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' episodes 4 and 8, Obi-Wan Kenobi and a platoon of clone lancers do this against IG lancer droids and the bounty hunter Durge, riding speeder bikes.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': In keeping with their theme, the Knight and the Squire (England's equivalent of Batman and Robin) have lances they use from the back of their motorcycle steeds.

* ''VideoGame/AnotherEdenStory'': Once Galliard takes enough damage, he rips off the machine gun on his bike and pulls out a giant electro lance to fight the player, while still riding his motorcycle.

* ''Bollywood/{{Dhoom}} 3'' has Jai and Sahir ([[spoiler:Or is it Samar?]]) motorcycle jousting in the end chase.

* A MuggingTheMonster story from the UsefulNotes/SocietyforCreativeAnachronism gives us an ''unintentional'' version; A group wanted to hold fight practice with functional replica weaponry. This required a few permits and a change of venue from their regular park. There was one available, but the police warned them that the local motorcycle gang considered it their turf and may not take too kindly to strangers. Seeing no other options, the SCA risked it. Sure enough, the motorcycle club showed up and started hassling the re-creationists. Seems that the battle pikes and other implements that were useful for removing mounted knights from their horses worked just as well for taking riders off their hogs.

* In keeping with their theme, the Knight and the Squire (England's equivalent of Franchise/{{Batman}} and Robin) have lances they use from the back of their motorcycle steeds.
* This one of the events held during 'Bike Week' in ''ComicBook/SherwoodTexas'' #2. Rob poses as Much to win the contest so Much will be accepted into the Nobles gang.
* Used by ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} foe Thrill Devil. How else would one expect a thrill seeker to approach combat with another motorcycle rider?

* Indiana Jones charges a Nazi motorcyclist using a flagpole as an improvised lance in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''.

* In a variant involving cars, in ''Film/HerbieRidesAgain'' there are people who are called Knights and who dress in wacky costumes who joust in one scene.
* In another variant, ''Film/QuickChange'' gives us a bizarre (and apparently lethal) bicycle jousting scene. Loomis panics and yells that "it's bad luck just seeing a thing like that!"
* At the climax of ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'', Ethan and the BigBad do this.
* ''Film/RoboCop2''. Alex Murphy has a joust with Cain: Murphy on a motorcycle, Cain in an armored car.
* There is some motorcycle jousting in the city where the girl goes to get help in the 1990 z-grade flick ''DuneWarriors''.
* ''Bollywood/{{Dhoom}} 3'' has Jai and Sahir ([[spoiler:Or is it Samar?]]) motorcycle jousting in the end chase.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}: Hell on Earth'', the Omega Knights are a group based in Junkyard. They ride motorcycles and battle other biker gangs with lances.

* Hal Jordan does this (on a flying motorbike) as part of a tournament in the ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Heir Apparent".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'': In "Dreamreaver", Grojband confronts a dream version of themselves inside Trina's mind. Dream-Corey [[InstrumentOfMurder uses his guitar as a lance]] while charging on a dirt bike.
* A cutaway in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' upped the ante by having Peter and his father-in-law partake in "limo jousting."
* When the [[WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars Biker Mice]] traveled back in time they had to fight with their bikes in a tournament against [[BigBad Limburger's ]] robotic knights to save Camelot. The effect was even greater since they were wearing the [[PoweredArmor armors]] Charley built for them.

DoNotTryThisAtHome unless you are on a closed stunt course ''and'' are trained in stunt riding ''and'' are either left-handed or have a modified brake. Waving or pointing an object, especially if you're right-handed, means ''taking your hand away from the handbrake,'' which is often in and of itself a {{lethally stupid}} idea. (Unlike motorcycles, horses can be commanded to stop or slow down verbally as well as via the reins, and reins can be held in either hand. Unless a motorcycle is modified, its handbrake is on the right hand, and until voice command technology improves, a vehicle cannot be commanded to stop or slow down via voice.)

%%* Disney's ''Series/{{Jessie}}'' did this as well.

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* A one-sided version occurs in ''FanFic/FallOfLiberty''. The Lost MC ride their bikes into zombies hordes while taking them down with baseball bats.

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* Done as a team by Harry Dresden and Karin Murphy in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. The normal difficulties are somewhat alleviated by Harry handling the "lance" (a magically charged wizard's staff in this case) while Murphy drives the bike. A heaping helping of magic supercharged with HellFire smooths out the rest.[[note]]What also helps, according to Harry's internal narration, is that even a Wizard can use normal physics: Drive a car and motorcycle towards each other at high speed, use magic to give the bike more 'effective' mass, and use the staff[=/=]'lance' as a lever....[[/note]]

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* Disney's ''Series/{{JESSIE}}'' did this as well.
* Happens in the ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' episode "[[http://wizardsofwaverlyplace.wikia.com/wiki/Graphic_Novel Graphic Novel]]".
* One ''Series/AmericanChopper'' episode had them doing this in pairs, though one was on a scooter.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' features this as part of a parallel universe that seems heavily inspired by ''Film/MadMax''.
* ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' did it with bicycles. Close enough to fit.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' episodes 4 and 8, Obi-wan Kenobi and a platoon of clone lancers do this against IG lancer droids and the bounty hunter Durge, riding speeder bikes.

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* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT0r0evP7qo

* Done as a team by Harry Dresden and Karin Murphy in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. The normal difficulties are somewhat alleviated by Harry handling the "lance" (a magically charged wizard's staff in this case) while Murphy drove the bike. A heaping helping of magic supercharged with HellFire smoothed out the rest.[[note]]What also helped, according to Harry's internal narration, is even a Wizard can use normal physics: Drive a car and motorcycle towards each other at high speed, use magic to give the bike more 'effective' mass, and use the staff[=/=]'lance' as a lever....[[/note]]