Bothered by Easy Rider
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Methinks you have waaaaay too much time on your hands to be able to do all that calculating![Icon Handball](https://www.hdforums.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_handball.gif)
You should go riding, polish your scoot or maybe book a root canal...![Icon Nut](https://www.hdforums.com/forum/images/smilies/icon_nut.gif)
If all else fails - medicate, medicate, medicate
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You should go riding, polish your scoot or maybe book a root canal...
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If all else fails - medicate, medicate, medicate
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I saw it in 1969. Forty years later, I suffer from persistent panic attacks. There's just NO WAY that Wyatt and Billy could have driven across New Mexico on those two bikes. Consider this:
1. They sold a battery-load of coke to Phil Specter.
2. They rolled up the cash and stuffed it into a plastic hose;
3. They capped the hose and made it airtight.
4. They stuffed the hose into the Captain America's gas tank.
5. Captain America's tank held 2.2 gallons. Assuming no reserve, the 74ci Panhead might give them a range of 80-90 miles.
What bothers me is the amount of fuel displaced by the money hose. The hose was about an inch across. For each foot of hose Wyatt crammed into his gas tank eats up 0.04 gallons. I don't have a copy of the movie, but I remember the hose being at least two feet long. With that in his tank, Wyatt could only go about 70 miles before running dry.
The hose might have been longer/wider. The point is, the road they were on would have sections where you wouldn't see a gas station for a hundred miles (or more). Excuse me for bein' a spoiler, but I just can't see this road trip happenin'.
I think it's pure fiction.
1. They sold a battery-load of coke to Phil Specter.
2. They rolled up the cash and stuffed it into a plastic hose;
3. They capped the hose and made it airtight.
4. They stuffed the hose into the Captain America's gas tank.
5. Captain America's tank held 2.2 gallons. Assuming no reserve, the 74ci Panhead might give them a range of 80-90 miles.
What bothers me is the amount of fuel displaced by the money hose. The hose was about an inch across. For each foot of hose Wyatt crammed into his gas tank eats up 0.04 gallons. I don't have a copy of the movie, but I remember the hose being at least two feet long. With that in his tank, Wyatt could only go about 70 miles before running dry.
The hose might have been longer/wider. The point is, the road they were on would have sections where you wouldn't see a gas station for a hundred miles (or more). Excuse me for bein' a spoiler, but I just can't see this road trip happenin'.
I think it's pure fiction.
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Boy you got that right. I hate hippies. I was at a hippy coffee house thing once and they made everyone stand up and "hug" all the people around you. I thought I was gonna barf. Gives me the ******* just thinking about it... and that was 25 years ago.
I'm way ahead of Rooster, tho. I knew the movie was fake, because there's no way Nicholson would ever wear that stupid helmet.
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Chit, I don't even remember the year 1969 all that well..... It's all kinda fuzzy and dim to me.
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