![]() ![]() These can be seen briefly in Back to the Future Part II, when some police cycles appear at the courthouse when Griff and his gang smash through the windows.Solo: A Star Wars Story: The Cloud Riders gang led by Enfys Nest uses flying swoop bikes.The Force Awakens: Rey's one-seat speeder can qualify.Then the troopers receive Order 66, fall back behind her and blast her speeder to pieces, killing her. Revenge of the Sith: Jedi Master Stass Allie and two clone troopers patrol with speeder bikes on Saleucami.Count Dooku uses a Flitknot speeder bike to flee the Separatist headquarters on Geonosis as they are losing the battle that starts the Clone Wars. Attack of the Clones: Anakin Skywalker goes on a search for his kidnapped mother on his native planet of Tatooine using a swoop speeder bike.Han Solo, Luke, Leia and some Ewoks ensure they don't reach the Imperial base to warn it. Return of the Jedi: Speeder bikes, also known as Swoop bikes, feature prominently in the second act of the film, with Imperial Scout Troopers using them to traverse the giant trees and undergrowth on the forest moon of Endor.It is a technological-themed Sister Trope to its more fantasy-oriented equivalents, the Magic Carpet and Flying Broomstick. It exists in a middle ground between the smaller Hover Board and larger Flying Car. The trope can marginally apply to similar higher-flying vehicles, but if a vehicle is made to fly higher primarily that is more likely to be a Rocket Ride. ![]() This trope applies primarily ground-hugging low-flying vehicles, and is likely to be found in a Science Fiction milieu that would justify the mechanical design required. Regardless of how it is justified in-story, this trope is primarily driven by Rule of Cool: a low-flying vehicle can give a much greater impression of speed than a ground vehicle can, the exposure of the operator gives a greater impression of danger and excitement, and shifting weight and listing during turns can give a very dramatic impression of motion. This is a trope where a personal transportation vehicle that is operated vaguely like a conventional motorcycle is fully locomotive without contact with the actual ground. Bikes are cool, and Power Floats, so logically a motorbike that hovers over the ground must be both powerful and cool! ![]()
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