Movie Producer Looking for Bikes in Colorado
I just want to pass this along. If you have older two-stroke motocross bikes and you’re in or near Colorado, there is a movie in production that may want to use your bike. And you might get in the movie yourself.
Here’s the particulars, as passed along to me by Jerry Pokorny, with the British Motorcycle Association of Colorado. It comes from a guy who goes by Whiskyman, but I guess you’d need to reply to Jerry at jerry_pokorny@msn.com.
I have been in communications with the producer of some budget movies who is now filming a production dealing with a human interest angle on a motocross racer theme.
Production is here in Colorado at Thunder Mountain in Lakewood and another site a short distance away so it’s in our backyard.
To help him out, he has asked me to try and help him find two different bikes – as follows:
Early ’90s vintage 2-stroke motocross bike in very clean to mint condition. The bike will mainly be used as static prop and only ridden for 2 laps around the motocross track by a professional stunt double in the production so it won’t be harmed in any way. It will be used in 2 scenes to be shot in Early June. No limit on displacement or brand was specified so let me know what you have in your collection that you would be willing to make available for a couple of days. The producer is going to offer the owner of the bike a small walk-on part related to the movie main characters race team in support of the “works rider†(principal actor in this production). There is no other compensation but the ego trip of having your bike and possibly you in a movie – now how cool is that?
The other need is for a few mid to late 1980s vintage 80 cc 2-stroke motocross bikes to be used in a scene with the producer’s main character YZ – 80 as “other competitors bikes.†This will be shot in late June or July. No walk-on part for this but you will still have bragging rights on having your bike in a movie………..
Ok, let’s hear from you as soon as possible. Let me know what you have (make, model, displacement, year) and if possible send a photo. I will help screen candidates and forward the best options to the producers for his consideration.
This sounds like a heck of a lot of fun so please respond at your earliest convenience!
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Whiskyman
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