Fonzi's Happy Days motorcycle

Thread starter MoviePropCollector
Start date Oct 10, 2011

Zombie_61

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Oct 25, 2011

MasterDurangus said:
I read somewhere that Henry Winkler didn't actually know how to ride a motorcycle and they had a double do the scenes. Anyone heard the same?

Years ago I saw Winkler on a talk show and he admitted he didn't like motorcycles and wasn't good at riding them. He said except for the few brief seconds in the show's opening titles showing Fonzie (clearly Winkler) riding, it was either Winkler sitting on a trailered bike that was being towed, or it was a double.

As for the bike itself, Spidersolo is correct--it's the same model as the one McQueen rode in The Great Escape, but not the same bike.

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