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Need help to identify a motorcycle with sidecar (and the film it appears in)
Published 09/07/2020 @ 01:36:42, By Stranger
I'm trying to find in which film a certain motorcycle with sidecar appears - a short clip of the film is seen at a cinema in the Swedish Martin Beck film "Roseanna" from 1993. I thought that if I find out which motorcycle it is, especially if a rough model year may be estimated, it may be easier to find the film. Please see a screenshot below (sorry it doesn't get better than that), I've also uploaded a clip to YouTube - the motorcycle appears about 19 seconds in.
(I hope it's OK to ask this, I started by browsing through all motorcycle sidecar images in the database but couldn't find a match. May it possibly be a Harley-Davidson?)
File: roseanna-sidecar.jpg ( 62.3 KB - 501 )

Latest Edition: 09/07/2020 @ 01:43:40
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Need help to identify a motorcycle with sidecar (and the film it appears in)
Published 10/07/2020 @ 00:38:25, By Baube
https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_444721-Harley-Davidson-Electra-Glide.html

i'm totally useless when it comes to bikes but i assume the page was for the sidecar one
Looks like your idea of an Harley was a good one :wink:
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Need help to identify a motorcycle with sidecar (and the film it appears in)
Published 10/07/2020 @ 13:49:16, By Stranger
Many thanks! Looks like it was first made in 1965 (the sidecar isn't mentioned though): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley-Davidson_FL#Electra-Glide

I actually managed to capture a slightly better still (I wonder who/what is in the sidecar):
https://images2.imgbox.com/f1/a6/cHwqZEnE_o.jpg

Latest Edition: 10/07/2020 @ 14:09:18
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Need help to identify a motorcycle with sidecar (and the film it appears in)
Published 12/07/2020 @ 18:59:56, By Screw13
I'm just as useless with bikes as I am with sidecars, but I think that sidecar is called California Friendship, or to be more precise: Friendship I or Friendship II, but I can't tell the difference:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e9/87/b0/e987b0b5af9dbd616bc9f69c4e9f5a72.jpg
More of them can be found here:
http://floridasidecarproducts.com/viewers_sidecar_pictures
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Need help to identify a motorcycle with sidecar (and the film it appears in)
Published 13/07/2020 @ 02:14:18, By Stranger
Many thanks - it certainly looks like it's the Friendship II, and the painting on the sidecar on that first image seems to match that from the film perfectly! After searching around a bit the earliest year I've found for Friendship II is 1983 - the design certainly looks 1980s to me - which means the film I'm looking for was probably made between the early 1980s and 1992/3.

Maybe you can update the info @ https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_444721-Harley-Davidson-Electra-Glide.html with the new better still above and the California Friendship II sidecar info?
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Need help to identify a motorcycle with sidecar (and the film it appears in)
Published 13/07/2020 @ 06:50:35, By atom
Sure looks like this one: http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_1395344-Harley-Davidson-FLH-Electra-Glide-1979.html

http://pics.imcdb.org/26849/bike18.jpg

Latest Edition: 13/07/2020 @ 06:52:08
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Need help to identify a motorcycle with sidecar (and the film it appears in)
Published 13/07/2020 @ 15:25:20, By Stranger
Wow you're right! Thank you soooo much, to try and find this film was starting to drive me crazy! Can't believe I didn't notice that when I browsed through all 1993 and before sidecar images, even though 438 images is a lot and the main image isn't as obvious as the one above. I also somehow didn't think to browse through all Electra Glide.

Here's a still from "Eversmile New Jersey" of the scene that appears in "Roseanna":
https://images2.imgbox.com/95/13/v7phQeMG_o.png

I guess https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_444721-Harley-Davidson-Electra-Glide.html may be removed now?

Again thank you so much! :aidantai:

Edit: Added the connection (as well as some appropriate keywords and stills) to IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097302/movieconnections/ :smile:

The scene is even featured on one of the posters! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097302/mediaviewer/rm1278740480

Latest Edition: 13/07/2020 @ 16:12:28
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Need help to identify a motorcycle with sidecar (and the film it appears in)
Published 13/07/2020 @ 19:40:59, By Screw13
That's really funny. I submitted "Eversmile, New Jersey" on imcdb not that long ago, and when I looked at that first image, I thought: "that looks really familiar, maybe it's from.. nah, it can't be". Oh how wrong I was :lol:
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Need help to identify a motorcycle with sidecar (and the film it appears in)
Published 15/07/2020 @ 14:17:57, By Stranger
Haha really? Well thanks to you submitting it this mystery was finally solved! :grin:

Latest Edition: 15/07/2020 @ 14:20:31
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Need help to identify a motorcycle with sidecar (and the film it appears in)
Published 15/07/2020 @ 15:22:18, By zander
Interested in finding info. about the. 1930 Austin in the Elvis film Follow that dream.
Does it still exist etc.....
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