Compared to his variety in cars, James Bond doesn’t often throw a leg over a motorcycle. Yet this year’s Skyfall, due in October, will mark the second time in as many movies that Bond has tangled with the bad guys on two wheels. This time, though, EON Productions has partnered with Honda so everyone is on Honda CRF250R motorcycles made to look like local Turkish bikes. They were used for the action scenes and by the stunt crews, while the CFR450R was used for camera crews.
Now that the Honda ‘Police’ and ‘Street Merchant’s’ bikes have done their business, they are on display at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, England as part of an exhibit of 50 years of James Bond’s various rides – with wheels and without.
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