Risky Business Bike
03-09-11, 06:45 PM
#1
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 70
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Risky Business Bike
Hi all.
I am new to the forums and wanted to see if I could get some help on identifying a bike in the 1983 movie, Risky Business, with Tom Cruise.
In the opening scene, he is riding a blue bike and I was wondering if anyone know which model it is.
It is also seen again at night while he is walking it.
When Cruise is leaning against the bike, it looks like it has a red oval sticker/badge on the front fork of the bike and the words, "Sport" or "Speed" on the frame.
I am new to the forums and wanted to see if I could get some help on identifying a bike in the 1983 movie, Risky Business, with Tom Cruise.
In the opening scene, he is riding a blue bike and I was wondering if anyone know which model it is.
It is also seen again at night while he is walking it.
When Cruise is leaning against the bike, it looks like it has a red oval sticker/badge on the front fork of the bike and the words, "Sport" or "Speed" on the frame.
03-09-11, 06:51 PM
#2
Dropped
Panasonic Sport.
03-09-11, 06:52 PM
#3
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Sacramento, California, USA
Posts: 40,865
Bikes: Specialized Tarmac, Canyon Exceed, Specialized Transition, Ellsworth Roots, Ridley Excalibur
Mentioned: 68 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2952 Post(s)
Liked 3,106 Times
in
1,417 Posts
Schwinn World Sport? I had one in '85 and it was ice blue with turkey lever brakes and suicide shifters.
03-09-11, 06:57 PM
#4
Restore, ride, repeat...
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Chicago
Posts: 403
Mentioned: 4 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Doesn't he also borrow a different bike from someone at some point? I think is a red bike. The movie takes place in a nice suburb, I was also wondering what kind of bikes they used to represent that.
03-09-11, 07:00 PM
#5
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 70
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Very well could be. What's selling me is the round reflector at the back...But then again any bike could have had that.
https://lh6.ggpht.com/_CBn5H7oiLrU/SJ...portDeluxe.jpg
https://lh6.ggpht.com/_CBn5H7oiLrU/SJ...portDeluxe.jpg
Last edited by crad159; 03-09-11 at 07:15 PM.
03-09-11, 07:07 PM
#6
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 70
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
He does. Just after he got suspended...great movie.
The red one looks similar to the blue bike. Both have the kick-stand and round reflectors...Also similar frames.
The red one looks similar to the blue bike. Both have the kick-stand and round reflectors...Also similar frames.
Last edited by crad159; 03-09-11 at 07:15 PM.
03-09-11, 07:15 PM
#8
Dropped
03-09-11, 07:30 PM
#9
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 70
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
So here are a couple of options.
https://picasaweb.google.com/scarsgo...98973046108002
But this looks more like the shade of blue:
https://picasaweb.google.com/scarsgo...99122737333266
https://picasaweb.google.com/scarsgo...98973046108002
But this looks more like the shade of blue:
https://picasaweb.google.com/scarsgo...99122737333266
03-09-11, 07:42 PM
#10
Designer
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 1,368
Mentioned: 2 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 13 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 5 Times
in
5 Posts
Interesting to see the drastic size differences between the two bikes.
The first one seeming to be quite small for Tom, and the second is way too big.
The first one seeming to be quite small for Tom, and the second is way too big.
__________________
03-09-11, 08:00 PM
#11
Senior Member
Yeah, in the movie, he borrowed the bike from a much taller actor, and when he got on, you could tell how hard it was for him to stay on the thing!
__________________
'11 Time NXR Instinct / '79 Paris Sport by Moulton
'11 Time NXR Instinct / '79 Paris Sport by Moulton
03-09-11, 09:23 PM
#12
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Around Seattle
Posts: 1,207
Bikes: 1969 Raleigh Sports: The Root Beer Bomber
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
"Here's the problem, Matt. You don't know about Panasonics. I do. Matt, Matt, Matt... you're glib. You don't even know what riding is!"
I may have made some minor adaptations.
FWIW, I think, and have always thought, that Risky Business is a dumb movie. Being a pimp is not difficult, apparently, given the men who usually do it. But then, I don't find prostitution, or Tom Cruise, glamorous. He's got a serious Napoleonic complex, much like my ex-husband.
I do like Claudia Cardinale in Once Upon a Time in the West. The only movie I've ever seen where the "***** with a heart of gold" thing wasn't offensive. She rocked, in what was a fantastic movie overall.
I may have made some minor adaptations.
FWIW, I think, and have always thought, that Risky Business is a dumb movie. Being a pimp is not difficult, apparently, given the men who usually do it. But then, I don't find prostitution, or Tom Cruise, glamorous. He's got a serious Napoleonic complex, much like my ex-husband.
I do like Claudia Cardinale in Once Upon a Time in the West. The only movie I've ever seen where the "***** with a heart of gold" thing wasn't offensive. She rocked, in what was a fantastic movie overall.
03-10-11, 03:07 AM
#14
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Tacoma, WA
Posts: 353
Bikes: 90s Gios Compact Pro. 80s Battaglin w/ Dura Ace 7400s. 70s Medici Pro Strada
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Great character and great movie. I say this way too often these days: "they really don't make movies like that anymore!"
03-10-11, 03:15 AM
#15
Game Warden of Love
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Western Pennsyltucky
Posts: 234
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
03-10-11, 11:54 AM
#17
Dolce far niente
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Northern CA
Posts: 10,704
Mentioned: 15 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 20 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 17 Times
in
14 Posts
__________________
"Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin, it’s the triumphant twang of a bedspring."
S. J. Perelman
"Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin, it’s the triumphant twang of a bedspring."
S. J. Perelman
03-10-11, 12:37 PM
#18
Senior Member
One of my all time favorite movies! Funny, well made, fun to watch today.
Snarky, sure being a Pimp isn't difficult, but in the context of this movie, it was hillarious!
Snarky, sure being a Pimp isn't difficult, but in the context of this movie, it was hillarious!
__________________
'11 Time NXR Instinct / '79 Paris Sport by Moulton
'11 Time NXR Instinct / '79 Paris Sport by Moulton
03-10-11, 12:54 PM
#19
Fat Guy on a Little Bike
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Posts: 15,944
Bikes: Two wheeled ones
Mentioned: 42 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1254 Post(s)
Liked 345 Times
in
174 Posts
Some of you are dancing perilously close to angering Xenu.
03-10-11, 01:04 PM
#21
Spin Forest! Spin!
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Arrid Zone-a
Posts: 5,956
Bikes: I used to have many. And I Will again.
Mentioned: 2 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 7 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 11 Times
in
10 Posts
Some sort of artsy fartsy Schwinn.
BBM: Yeah, that line is great!
Poor car.
BBM: Yeah, that line is great!
Poor car.
03-10-11, 01:09 PM
#22
Señor Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Hardy, VA
Posts: 17,926
Bikes: Mostly English - predominantly Raleighs
Mentioned: 70 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1492 Post(s)
Liked 1,096 Times
in
642 Posts
Wait? A bike too small for Tom? 
__________________
In search of what to search for.
In search of what to search for.
03-10-11, 02:19 PM
#24
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 8,516
Mentioned: 69 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 3241 Post(s)
Liked 2,512 Times
in
1,510 Posts
The blue bike doesn't have chrome fork ends.