Greatest “Cowboys Vs. Dirt Bikes” Movie of All Time

The Monkees , the 1960s ’ greatest prefab superband , just did a few reunion show — except that one Monkee , in particular , was not present : Mike Nesmith , who went on to have a wide-ranging and noted post - Monkees career … including one time - travel movie .

Here are some of our preferred aspect from Timerider : The Adventure of Lyle Swann , the 1982 movie about a shit bike racer who gets zapped back in clip to 1875 and has a whole series of Wild West risky venture . Nesmith wrote the script , farm the moving picture , and indite the soundtrack himself . This is just one of many foreign adventures Nesmith had after the Monkees , includingsuing PBS , starting a couple of alt - land bands , and make the weird proto - music television compiling Elephant Parts .

Timerider might be one of the strangest things the Smartest Monkee ever did , though . Lyle Swan is a tough - fucking stain - bicycle racing champion in a bright cherry wooing , who accidentally drives into a time portal created by some scientist who are adjudicate to post a monkey back in clock time for a few moments . Lyle winds up stranded 107 days in the past times , and one of the scientists says to the other , “ We ’ve have our experiment now . ” Which seems like an odd affair to say when you ’ve incidentally run aground a dirt - cycle race car in the 19th Century . I would be looking out my window to see if the late twentieth Century suddenly looked right smart different , since someone could have reverse - engineered that sucker .

Anyway , Lyle thinks he ’s just gotten more disoriented than usual , and he roar around the Old West asking the great unwashed for a telephone set and say ironically odd hooey like , “ I ’m riding by . This town is history . ” He run into a group of Mexicans around a campfire and they think he ’s the Prince of Darkness because of his loud bike and his bright red suit . One of the Mexicans buy the farm of a tenderness attack , and Lyle is pitiful .

Most of the clips above come from the central part of the movie , where he falls afoul of some foul downcast down outlaws , who covet his dirt bike . As one of them enjoin , if General Lee had had a soil cycle like that , the Civil War would have turned out differently . And he meets Claire , a chirpy gun for hire who forces him to disrobe at gunpoint . ( To which Lyle reply , “ You ca n’t ! I mean , a girlfriend ca n’t … ” Because it would be ok if it was a guy rope push a missy to disrobe at gunpoint , of course . ) He haphazardly recite her about her laurel wreath , which his nifty - great - great - grandfather gave to his great - great - great - grandmother after their one beautiful dark together .

Thus mark up the ending of the film , in which we find out that … wait for it … Lyle is his own great - smashing - great grandfather ! Mike Nesmith was credibly the first person to come in up with this gimmick , but then someone else saw Timerider and went back in time several decade to give this melodic theme to other writers . Mike Nesmith was surcharge !

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