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3	Many shows that have a character (often a [[BadassBiker "bad boy"/"bad girl"]] type) who owns a [[CoolBike motorcycle]] will show that character riding along such a coast road in their opening or closing credits. Usually the camera angle is low and facing the sea [[RidingIntoTheSunset where the sun rests upon the horizon]], casting crimson sparkles over the wavetops below and behind the featured character as they drive across the screen.
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5	For some reason, this is extremely common in Japan, perhaps because many places in Japan (but most famously near Tokyo) feature curving roads on low cliffs that run right up against the Pacific Ocean (or the Sea of Japan, depending on the location). When Hollywood does something similar, the coast road in question will invariably be California SR 1, the Pacific Coast Highway.
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7	See also RidingIntoTheSunset. If two lovers do this together then it's RomanticRideSharing.
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10	!!Examples:
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14	* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', both in the original {{OVA}}s and as the second set of closing credits for the 2006-present TV series.
15	* ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' OAV 5 - Moonlight Rambler, featured Priss and her new friend Sylvie riding along the coast.
16	* ''[[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Macross II]]''
17	* ''{{Manga/Bakuon}}'' features this in the OP, [[JustifiedTrope given the nature of the show]].
18	* ''Manga/RealBoutHighSchool''
19	* ''Anime/MyHime''
20	* ''Manga/GakuenHeaven''
21	* Parodied (like most anime tropes) in ''Anime/PrettySammy'', with a three-day father-and-daughter motorcycle-on-the-coast ride which resulted in both falling asleep, driving into the ocean, and ending up on a tropical isle in time for the BeachEpisode.
22	* In ''Anime/EarthMaidenArjuna'', this trope is exactly the plot trigger: Juna and her boyfriend are riding his motorbike in a coast road near Tokyo, when some bizarre spirit makes him lose control and crash. Juna dies, but because she's TheChosenOne, she's revived and turned into a MagicalGirl.
23	* Some of the ending credits sequences for ''Franchise/LupinIII'', usually with Fujiko, either on a motorcycle or in a convertible.
24	* Haruko from ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}''. Curiously, her driving is much better in the opening than it is in the actual series.
25	* ''Manga/SchoolRumble''
26	* ''Manga/{{Planetes}}'', although in this case it actually becomes a dramatic element. The character in question gets lost in thought, and [[spoiler:crashes over the rail into the ocean]].
27	** Was also shown in the ending credits, which we find out that it was showing the moment that a character decided to become an astronaut.
28	* ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'', though with a [[strike: moped]] Vespa.
29	* Used in the closing seconds of episode five of ''Anime/MelodyOfOblivion''.
30	* Occasionally, entire sections of the episodes in ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest'' are on coast roads, almost always on motorcycles.
31	** And [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car kei-cars]].
32	* ''Manga/GoldenBoy'' parodies this by featuring a dramatic race along coastal roads between the GirlOfTheWeek, who's a stereotypical motorcycle nut, and the lead character riding a pushbike.
33	* ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'' did something very similar over the credits with Cloud and his Fenrir motorcycle. Bonus points for being shot on-location at ''Hawaiian inland roads'' (Cloud being CGI of course)
34	* This is the last shot of Mai in the Season 4/Doma Arc finale of ''Anime/YuGiOh''.
35	* The manga ''Manga/YokohamaKaidashiKikou'' and its OAV series (also known as ''Quiet Country Cafe'') make grandiose and significant use of this, sometimes dedicating entire chapters to quite literally motorcycle rides on coastal roads. Mind you, said coast roads are often rather further inland than you might expect. In fact, there are a few chapters which are nothing more but a collection of "Motorcycle On The Coast Road" images, with no dialog or character interaction whatsoever.
36	* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' also features the moped variant -- in all four of its opening themes.
37	* Featured in both the opening of ''VisualNovel/{{Lamune}}'' and the series itself, as Kenji is shown to be quite dedicated to the motorcycle he got from his father. Midway through the series, another motorcycle girl, Misora, appears.
38	* One episode of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' has a scene of Shinn doing this, in {{Homage}} to director Mitsuo Fukuda's earlier series ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula''.
39	* Happened in the first episode of ''Anime/BloodPlus'', when Kai gave Saya a ride on his motorcycle to her doctor's appointment. She specifically asked him to take "the scenic route" that brought them by the coast. It was a serenely beautiful scene, perfect for lulling the audience into a false sense of security before the sun went down and the monsters came out.
40	* Kaere, Chie, and Nozomu pulling a rather boisterous one of these is the final scene of the first season of ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''.
41	* ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch Pure'' had some of these. All of them featured Masahiro driving the bike with Rina sitting behind him.
42	* Invoked in ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying Second Thread'' when Hajime reveals that he bought a CoolBike for just such an occasion after Kaoru expresses a desire to visit a particular ramen resturant in Shounan.
43	* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'': The first opening to the anime features Onizuka riding his bike, though it appears to be along a bridge.
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47	* Gary in ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'' goes for a coast ride after quitting the team.
48	* A rather infamous example in ''Film/AustinPowers'', where [[LampshadeHanging it's also remarked]] [[CaliforniaDoubling "how little England looks like Southern California"]].
49	* In the film version of ''Film/{{Quadrophenia}}'', Jimmy goes for a coast ride at the end of the movie.
50	* Several instances in the 1974 Australian cult biker movie ''Film/{{Stone}}'', including the murder of Go Down when the killer forces him to swerve off a cliff into the ocean. However the most badass scene isn't one of these, but the iconic shot of the outlaw biker funeral escort on the F3 freeway.
51	* ''Film/TheStudentNurses'': Played straight, as Les the "bad boy" (he's a hippie drug dealer) takes Priscilla on a motorcycle ride down the Pacific Coast Highway before they stop on the beach to drop acid and have sex.
52	* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadTheWeird'' ends with [[spoiler:Tae-goo]] riding along a road on the edge of a cliff.
53	* ''Film/RRR2022'': Ram and Bheem take a motorcycle and a horse for a ride down a curving lakeside road as the camera pans from different angles.
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57	* This imagery appears in the Creator/WilliamGibson short story ''The Winter Market''.
58	--> There's a segment on ''Kings of Sleep''; it's like you're on a motorcycle at midnight, no lights but somehow you don't need them, blasting out along a cliff-high stretch of coast highway, so fast that you hang there in a cone of silence, the bike's thunder lost behind you.
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62	* ''Series/ThenCameBronson'' was a TV show about a man who decided to "take to the road" and have adventures on his motorcycle. Think of ''Series/{{Route 66}}'' done on two wheels instead of four. The show spent a lot of time doing the exact thing described above, long shoots across what is probably the California Coastline showing the highway.
63	* The pilot of the 2nd season of ''Series/SeaQuestDSV'' could be argued to have this. Of course, fans of the series are rather shocked to learn that the speeding cycle-rider is none other than [[spoiler:Captain Bridger]].
64	* Nate does this in ''Series/SixFeetUnder'', shortly after discovering he's terminally ill. On a Harley, in CoolShades, to the inspired soundtrack of "Don't Fear The Reaper".
65	* In the TaiwaneseSeries ''Series/Mars2004'', the lead character, a professional motorcycle racer, takes his girl out for a leisurely drive along the coast.
66	* In the KoreanSeries ''[[Series/ScentOfAWoman Scent Of A Woman]]'', it's a ride along the coast road, but on a bicycle.
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70	* Music/BlueOysterCult use the [=SR1=] California coastal highway explicitly in two songs on their ''The Revolution By Night'' album. "Shadow of California" is about a Hell's Angels chapter racing up from San Bernadino to Los Angeles on an unknown mission. "Feel The Thunder" is even more explicit: three Angels going on a night ride up the coastal highway come to grief on a tricky curve and are summoned for judgement by Satan (it ''is'' [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve the night of October 31st]])
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74	* The end of ''Revenge of Meta-Knight'' in ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'', where Kirby is riding along the coast at sunset on a Wheelie, with the sinking wreck of the [[AirborneAircraftCarrier Halberd]] in the background.
75	* The stage/episode endings of ''VideoGame/GeppyX''.
76	* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' lets you do this in several places, notably near Angel Pine and Blueberry. It's very cathartic.
77	** Until you hit a randomly-generated traffic accident, and get hurled off your bike and into the sea.
78	*** Just like in RealLife... well, ideally not. Still possible.
79	** Likewise, several locations in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' exist solely to be gazed at from the first-person view of a bike ride. Beware of RandomEncounters, however.
80	* Shows up in the opening and closing credits in various ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games, albeit in bicycle flavor.
81	* Doable in ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound\|1994}}'' once you get a bicycle, although you are stripped of your ride after the second town because it's not fair to the rest of your (bikeless) party to be unable to share in your fun.
82	* The ending credits of ''VideoGame/ShockTroopers'' depict [[TheHero Jackal]] riding his CoolBike in this fashion.
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