It's Definitely Not Knight Rider on a Motorcycle: The History of Street Hawk
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- Опубликовано: 3 дек 2024
- Street Hawk is an American superhero television series that aired for 13 episodes on ABC in 1985.
More popular outside of the US the Street Hawk toy history is complicated and includes him sort of being a member of GI Joe!
From the opening narration:
Jesse Mach, an ex-motorcycle cop, injured in the line of duty. Now a police troubleshooter, he's been recruited for a top secret government mission to ride Street Hawk -- an all-terrain attack motorcycle designed to fight urban crime, capable of incredible speeds up to three hundred miles an hour, and immense firepower. Only one man, federal agent Norman Tuttle, knows Jesse Mach's true identity. The man...the machine...Street Hawk.
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Wow, I can't believe there were only 13 episodes, I feel like I grew up with this show. 😁I loved Street Hawk's raw, gritty feel. You actually felt like you were there with him and his motorcycle. Knight Rider just didn't have that same appeal even though KITT was super cool of course. Airwolf was by far the coolest vehicle
I remember reading that while shows like this, Nightrider and Airwolf had different executive producers/creators, the behind the scenes production houses were the same. Much of the same people were making the shows behind the scenes. Especially the vehicle teams. What killed Streethawk was the unexpected extreme costs. See Nightrider had two hero cars, but the stunt cars were mainly off the shelf Pontiac’s that needed minimal redress for stunt shots. Just some black paint. You didn’t need to see KITT’s unique features in stunt shots. They burned through a stunt car every 1-2 episodes. But they could mostly be salvaged and combined to get one workable car out of every 2-3 destroyed. Airwolf while expensive had very stable predictable costs. Just helicopter fuel and maintenance. Streethawk was burning through 6 motorcycles per episode. Just trashing them. The hero bike was a heavily modified Honda XL500. But because they so tricked it out, they had to put a lot of work into each stunt bike. Swapping the fiberglass body shells took a lot of work. And they stupidly used a base bike that was fairly uncommon, so they were chewing through them faster then they could find them.the fantasy was that the Streethawk bike had three modes, street, off road and super speed. This created a ton of production headaches. They had to keep six bikes prepped because they would fly apart during stunts and need to be reshot. The costs quickly started escalating.
Thanks for the info! But, while Knight Rider started off cheaper thanks to write-off Trans Ams that couldn't be sold as new for one reason or another, they too eventually ran into a wall of not being able to score cheap cars for stunt shots (one of the reasons for so much model work in season 2 and the first half of 3) and began using a custom stunt rig with just a replica body shell on top.
I can't imagine the headaches Street Hawk's team dealt with.
@@pennygadget7328 I wish I could find it again, but somewhere out there is a video that includes one of the production people talking about how the bikes used to just come apart. They could get maybe one shot out of them. No bike that they ever jumped could be used again and they could barely get usable parts from the carcass.
Nightrider running out of available cars is kind of mind boggling. I mean the show literally introduced the brand new Pontiac. It was a giant Firebird commercial. It's not like they were hunting old garages in Alabama for a workable Dodge Charger.
@@andrewtaylor940 It wasn't a matter of difficulty so much as sheer cost. There was a bunch of stuff going on re: access to the cars (people in the company didn't want Knight Rider to use their car in case the show flopped and hurt the brand so it was all under-the-table at first) and after it ended up a hit they got great deals on cars that couldn't be legally sold as new (open roofs during a drizzle, the transport carrying them was involved in a fender-bender, etc.) since it was exactly what you said: a big, prime-time commercial. But that well eventually dried up.
Even with cobbling cars together with the scraps, one of the most common points of damage were twisted chassis thanks to the jumps, forcing them to get replacements. They couldn't afford to buy brand new cars at near-MSRP on the show's budget, thus the re-usable stunt rig was born. :)
Lassi Kinnunen maybe ‘gently’ used
Lassi Kinnunen Part of the problem was KITT was based on the earliest version of the car. By season 2 the production cars were seeing enough significant styling changes that it increased the workload dressing them out. Even if they weren’t 100% accurate to the hero car.
My younger brother LOVED StreetHawk. (I was Airwolf and ATeam).He had a black StreetHawk shirt and plastic helmet, as well as a regular tshirt with logo. I watched the whole series last summer and it holds up pretty well. Certainly as good as knight rider and Ateam...
Omg this was my favorite show!!! I didn't realize this show got canceled after 1 season! 80s was the greatest time to be a kid!
Yeah, it's crazy. All of these 80s shows I thought had 10 seasons were all cancelled in a couple of years.
Knight Rider, Street Hawk, Airwolf, The Master, The A-Team, CHIPS, all of these 80's shows were my childhood
Yeah, those show were of my childhood too.
CHiPS is a 70s show, but it carry on into the early 80s.
Yep. I loved all those shows. Wish I was a kid again just for these shows.
My my favorite shows from the 80s yeahhh!!
The master is on Tubi. Its hilarious
Tuesdays nights was my childhood telly highlight...moonlighting, Street Hawk and Midnight caller back to back. Good times.
I spray painted my GIJoe motorcycle black and put Snake Eyes on it for use as Streethawk🤘
UncleDeluxe ditto. Thanks for the memory
Arrrrrr!! The fantastic days of 80s tv shows! Street Hawk! Knightrider... airwolf.... Ateam..... Blue Thunder..... Automan .... Fall Guy.... Starskey n Hutch .... N more!! Absolute fabulous!! 😉👍
Yeah! Street Hawk man! Used to love that as a kid. I remember that my granpa had an ashtray in his car that folded out similar to the laser on the bike, and me and my brother lost our minds over this. Takes me way back.
Also Tangerine Dream. What‘s not to love?
Back before my family had a VCR I used to tape episodes of my favourite shows on cassette tape and play them back while I drew and did homework during the week. This is one that I would tape... yeah it was pretty rough back in the day lol.
I mention this Show all the time, Use to watch it on USA. Noone ever seems to know what I'm talking about.
Loved Street Hawk as kid.
Love you for mentioning Tangerine Dream. Toy Galaxy hits the bullseye every time!
"The bike is fire proof!"... What about me????"...."The suit is fire proof!!!" I remember the line. Thanks for this video! I remember this show!
So we're doing Blue Thunder?
Let's just do all of the 80s.
I'm partial to Hardcastle and McCormick, Fall Guy, and Simon AND Simon...or at least I think I was. My bedtime was 9pm so I pretty much just watched the intro before going to bed.
Don’t forget Riptide!
Let’s be honest here - the intro/theme song was always the best part of every ‘80s show and cartoon.
Jake and the Fatman!
Lucky mine was 8 o'clock
Mike Post had such great themes. Probably why so many of these shows stick around in our heads.
FINALLY!!!! I've been championing this show for years, and so many of my friends who know 'retro' stuff don't seem to remember this! Thank you. And by the way - one of the most incredible theme tunes ever
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"The Ocean's 11 of the parking lot!" That would be a Knight Rider team far greater than the actual Team Knight Rider!
So the one man - and a support team of 2000 - can make a difference plan of the most recent KR series.
@@lynngreen7978 You mean
the Shelby Cobra one, right?
@ Team Knight Rider was before the Shelby remake. it was a team of drivers with a variety of soup up vehicles of different backgrounds. The hacker would wheel his motorcycle into the base for sci fi movie marathons. They were based on a cargo plane, kind of like the bus from the first season of Agents Of Shield.
Street Hawk was syndicated in Indonesia in 1989. I remember watching every episode. Later I learned that it was an attempt by the national channel to compete with the then newly launched, only private channel which had Knight Rider, Airwolf, and MacGyver. The national channel kept buying short syndicated series because they were much cheaper than syndicating more popular, longer series.
As a kid in the 80's in Ireland, I loved Street Hawk for a whole lot longer than the show aired. I had a Lego Street Hawk in my Lego games. It was just a black bike and a black minifig with black helmet and (oh what a glorious day it was when I got a set that included it) a black visor, but it was my Street Hawk. I have no idea why I loved it so much. Maybe it was just easier to build in Lego than KITT?
Holy cow! I’m literally watching the pilot episode (at the time of posting). Keep these coming. I love it!
Another one of my favourites as a kid, can't believe it was only 13 episodes!
yeah, in my childhood-memory i´d been watching this for years :D
Really enjoying the recalls of old 80’s TV shows that I *barely* remember due to their minimal time on air and my young age.
Great channel. Really like it here.
Street Hawk got me the worst spanking of my life: 1985, England, a birthday party had ended, we were waiting for our parents to pick us up so the host put the tv on while we waited... Street Hawk! A show I'd only heard of... a legend! But halfway through my parents turned up. So, being seven years old, I threw a tantrum, demanding that they let me watch the rest. It seems there's no sin worse than embarrassing my mum. On the drive home she and my dad discussed my punishment. By the time I got home I was so scared that I ran upstairs, up my bunkbed and cowered in the corner. But there was no escape.
Cool story
you could have called jessie!
Nostalgia is only powerful because I'm 47 and can't remember half of yesterday, but, in detail, panels of comic strips from 1984. We've all been there...
So the "Is it Airwolf" tease means you'll be doing Blue Thunder next right? RIGHT???
Even as a kid when I saw Blue Thunder, I remember thinking, “isn’t this just Airwolf?”
He better!!
Wouldn't mind that.
Airwolf was better though, especially its first season when it was really focused on the Cold War.
Archangel & Caitlin were my fave characters though.
In this case, Blue Thunder was a spinoff of an action thriller film of the same name. And both the movie (May 1983) and TV series (January 6, 1984) preceded Airwolf (January 22, 1984).
Hopefully and looking foward to it.
Thanks! This is more information that I ever needed to know about this show! I remember it and my friend wanted me to draw a comic about it way back when....
Great Vid as always, Dan. I remember seeing the G.I. JOE / STREET HAWK toy at my local (very awesome and sorely missed) Toy Store but it sold out super fast. And THAT score by Tangerine Dream was BOSS!
At 9 years old, I was obsessed with the opening sequence.
The show reminded me of the Wraith with Charlie Sheen.
Never heard of it ima gonna have to check it out
The Wraith came out after this show went off the air.
@@HollywoodColt You never heard of The Wraith ?!...
Duuuude.....you are in for a TREAT!
@@mossadon I'm going to have to check that out now
The Wraith was my JOINT!
With one of the best music intro ever for a TV series!
The Vigilante Justice Machine TV universe is basically M.A.S.K. That's how you get M.A.S.K. The real move is getting them all to combine into Armored Fleet Dairugger XV (Vehicle Voltron).
This is a quality comment.
Almost like Supercar Gattiger
"The Vigilante Justice Machine TV Universe" needs a T Shirt with the vehicles on it.
hah hah hah hah. i'm crackin up over here...i think this is my saying of the month. Dam! i may have to name a music project this and vocoder my way through some bizarre lyrical odes to Vigilante Justice Machines.
Vigilante Justice Machines ! YES!!! That's the name of my new band !!!!!
Thanks Joao !
@@SecretGalaxyTV That closing piece was pure gold.
simple, show the toys doing it. it worked for how many seasons of Power Rangers?
I remember seeing one of the bikes used for the show in a motorcycle magazine that had been bought. The owner said it was horrible to ride, but always looked great and turned heads everywhere he went.
For some reason, my jobby has a huge print of Street Hawk themed art. No one knows where it came from, and I'm not complaining.
I loved this show! I still remember watching the first episode. I had to have been 9 or so. Perfect age!
Need to show some love for TV shows with water-based vehicles too: Seaquest? Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea? The Love Boat? Knightboat: The Crime-Solving Boat? 😄
Knight Boat was lame. Every week there was a canal, or an inlet. Or a fjord.
I absolutely loved this show! This an Knight Rider were everything then... Nice.
The gimmick wasn't gimmicky enough. Now, if the motorcycle was his reincarnated mother, then we'd have a show!
In each episode she'd try to set him up with a new girl.
Named “Martha”!
@@seibervideo Why did you say that name!
If he had a psychic connection to the motorcycle (an implant in his head) allowing to call it on command or instantly send it some where
The could rename the show "The motorbike that loved too much".
This channel is CRIMINALLY UNDER RATED !!!!!!
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Vigilante Justice Machines is my new jam.
Every vehicle based show: This week we jump over things!
...in slow mo !
My days!!! Absolutely loved this show with its license music (I remember a cover of Dancing In The Dark in the first episode) and ‘80s cheesy storylines. I always wondered what happened to it, great to learn a little bit about a forgotten gem!!
That theme is awesome. I've had it on my playlist several times
Its worth watching Street Hawk to check out Jessies (short lived) mate, Robert Beltran from Voyager (who gets killed by Doc Brown) in episode one and his mate George Clooney turning up in episode 2!
Only 1 season, though...memorable theme by Tangerine Dream
Kenneth BRUTON in the eighties, thirteen episodes was a fail, not a season.
@@RobertWilkinsonJKekMaloy You'll get no argument from me. I should have said a 13-episode run, not season..
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Over here in the UK 13 episodes would be three series and a pilot! 😂
Resident Elect so ... four episodes is a series?
13 episodes was hardly a season ,which was a huge shame.
I vividly remember watching this show a few times on TV when I was about 8. The theme song was stuck in the foggy recesses of my mind for years until I was able to find it decades later on RUclips.
I remember watching Street Hawk, and wishing they'd just go ahead and go full superhero with it!
Thank you finally someone else remembers street hawk
Finally! Been waiting for this! Great job as always Dan and Greg! Love the "Is it Knight Rider?" segment. Or is it Airwolf? Now i just need Condorman!!
Hell yeah I used to own the FunSchool Snake Eyes+Ram cycle street hawk and my school notebooks in the 1st grade were filled with sketches of the street hawk motorcycle. Thanks for the nostalgia trip. And with all due respect to Knight Rider, and any other '80s action show, Street Hawk had one of the greatest themes of all time.
I had the “voice-changer” Street Hawk toy helmet as a kid. Remember being so disappointed that the visor wouldn’t snap-down “hands free” like in the awesome TV show.
Nice shout out at the end to Viper. That's probably my favorite of these sort of series.
You could add The A Team Magnum P.I. and even Blue Thunder ( remember the show?) And for good measure even The Fall Guy!!
I remember little bits of the show. Don't know how much I watched, but I do remember the time he was spinning around on the ground, and then hit the jump control and did a stationary spinning jump. Even as a pre-teen I thought that wouldn't work.
Now do Super Force!! The series is about a former astronaut turned cop who uses a highly advanced combat armor and motorcycle to fight crime in the city of Metroplex during the future year 2020.
Oh man I remember that show!
The armor was cool and chunky!
Oh wow, major props...thought I was going to be he only one to recommend "Super Force"!
Thank you very much I was having trouble remembering the name of that show
Yea I always confuse the guy who stars in this with Lorenzo Lamas for some reason
"Times are tough. This man's tougher." Yesss
My friends & I would play _Street Hawk_ & _CHIPS Patrol_ while riding our bikes. Awesome times. Also, holey crap _Air Wolf_ & _Blue Thunder_ were amazing!
"Is it Knight Rider? No."
"Is it Airwolf?" (On a bike)
Yes.
NO, it's still not Airwolf because the government wanted Airwolf back, but it was kept hidden by String Hawke. Again, like Toy Galaxy said, Street Hawk was funded, operated, controlled, etc by the Federal govt. There was not hiding Street Hawk because it was made to be mass produced for the Police if is passed the initial tests.
When the Automan episode came out, I said to myself "if there isn't a Street Hawk epsiode, I'll be upset." And now this. Thanks, guys!
It's like... Kamen Rider. But 80's American.
This was a great show. The guy who played Norman Tuttle is always known to me as that name, I actually can never remember his real name. I remember in the 90's there was a uy in my town riding around on his motorbike derssed like Street hawk, it was so funny. That guy was obviously a massive fan.
As a kiwi it was this airwolf and knightrider and MacGyver
Yeah, shows that flopped in the USA were big hits in NZL, mainly because we only had 2 TV channels back then.
@@jandafin we did and I used to hate it when the show ended as being young I did not know about seasons or run times.
@@jandafin so since when did Airwolf knight rider or MacGyver flop in the US?? If they were big around the world they certainly were big in the US
Ben Conway I was referring more to Street Hawk rather than Knight Rider and MacGyver which I know were hits in the U.S.
I liked the show very much, watched it religiously when I was a kid back in the day. That TD theme, always got me pumped.
“A DAREDEVIL police officer. . . ."
I see what you did there. 😉
Yup. As a kid back in the 80s, I saw Rex Smith also star as The Daredevil in an episode of "The Incredible Hulk" TV show starring Lou Ferrigno. Loved that show. I think Kingpin was also in that episode. And Thor also was in another episode.
@@johnlloyddy7016 "He doesn't know your secret... He had intense floodlights and the ultrasonics, Matt! If he knew, he wouldn't try to blind you!"
@@johnlloyddy7016
Thor almost got in a bar fight with Dan in an episode of Roseanne.
Anyways, that mini series of The Incredible Hulk with Thor, I taped it off the tv onto VHS and watched the shit out of it. lol One scene's dialogue confused the hell out of me as a kid. A character says something about it going to happen "up in Ontario" lol, I never knew there was an Ontario, where I live, outside of Canada. lol Now I know that the show took place in California. I thought the Hulk hitchhiked all the way up to Canada for a second there.
Loved this! It had an all too brief time in the spotlight but I've always remembered it fondly even though I don't recall reruns. I've always linked it with Airwolf and Knightrider as well.
And was one of the best theme tunes too 😉 Xx
Which made it most memorable despite being One Season Wonder
Thank you so much Toy Galaxy. I'm withdrawing/trying to stay off addictions.
I was feeling lost this morning but this has made me feel so happy❤✌
Your channel means a lot.
I think I speak for everyone: your hard work and passion brings joy (and let's us be kids again) to many.
You ARE the real hero here 💪
I’m all-in on the “Ocean’s 11 of parking lots.”
Featuring The Vigilante Justice Machines.
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Sorry @Joao-Pierre Ruth .. i'm now officially obsessed with this. heh heh heh heh
Street hawk was an 80s masterpiece
I’d love to see an Airwolf reboot, that would be cool. They tried Knight Rider before in 2008 which I liked but NBC didn’t. I’d like to see a TV movie of Street Hawk and see how it does before it goes to series.
Bro you just gave me a flashback! I had that Street Hawk cycle toy! I had totally forgot about it - Thanks!
I'm shocked, shocked (well, not that shocked) you didn't mention Andy Probert even as you showed his art. Besides designing Street Hawk, he also designed the Enterprise-D, did work on the Enterprise refit and BTTF DeLorean, and designed... Airwolf!
Thanks for the overview. I couldn't be bothered to watch this when it was new,, now that it's history I find it fascinating. If I remember Rex Smith appeared with Linda Ronstadt on stage in "The Pirates of Penzance. "
Knight Rider, Street Hawk, Air Wolf, what other live action shows could a young boy need? 😆
Blue Thunder is another....that deserves a reboot.
I remember the show. Loved it . Watched it every week with my youngest brother. Turned 16 a few days after it premiered. My brother was 12.
Blue Thunder. Anyone remember that, was airwolfs only flying rival
Automan's Autocopter could've given both a run for their money.
Rex Smith and The Hoff BOTH appeared at an 80's sci fi convention In Edinburgh a few years back. The Hoff's queue for photos was considerably longer.
"Is it Airwolf" Are you planning an episode of Blue Thunder now? What about Riptide?
I always wanted to watch a team up between the vehicles and cast of shows. Something along the lines of Knight Rider vs. The A-Team and then teaming up to battle a greater evil.
Riptide did a team up with Simon & Simon (and also Magnum PI, if I'm not mistaken).
@@souljastation5463 Magnum teamed up with Simon & Simon and Murder She Wrote. The original plan was to have Murder She Wrote and The Equalizer in a crossover but the Equalizer team refused so Jessica went to Hawaii in Season 6 of Magnum.
I'm currently watching Season 5 of Simon & Simon on dvd and so far there's no linked episodes with Riptide although I've watched the Magnum crossover episode which was Ki'is Don't Lie.
What's riptide never heard of it
Dudes propping up Jan Michael Vincent, by the ankles, out of camera range, during his scenes. So F'd up
back in the day, lots of kids dreamed of having all those shows team up. it would be an awesome movie for sure.
Street Hawk
K.I.T.T.
Airwolf
the highway man's truck
Firefox (the jet from the moive)
the 80s was the era of the Black vehicle
were most every vehicle had to look like
a B-2 stealth bomber or the RF-71 Back
Bird and have awesome tech
and in the 90s Thunder
You mean the SR-71 Blackbird? Actually, there was a TV boat that looked similar to the Blackbird in a short-lived series called "The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage".
Don’t forget when Marty opened the garage door and revealed the black Toyota 4x4 in Back to the Future! I wanted that truck so bad!!
Thanks for bringing back all thes fabulous memories back
Ha! I'll seek out the theme song to this show every once in a while.
me too Brother me too.
I do the same!
Oh god I thought I was the only one! Brothers!!
@@Outlawstar79
Biggest injustice to all fans of 80s synth was that the full OST was not released, as every episode had amazing music!
It complements the show and the era perfectly.
Edit #bringbackstreethawk
@@residentelect it has that distinct running step-sequence that they did something like over an hour of in different permutations. They considered it some of their greatest work and new innovation in ratchet-sequencing. I know they had to sign a crazy contract to never even play that particular step sequence because it was proprietary to Universal. Whelp, unless the living members have a copy, the masters were lost in the Universal fire that destroyed half of modern music. I've been hunting for a trace of it for ever. That step sequence only a appears in one spot for 4 measures... I love the noir era Tangerine Dream, I'd like to hear that full recording. Here's the only trace ever recorded outside the show. ruclips.net/video/N8nn6KGysy0/видео.html
I loved this show growing up. I can’t believe this was just one season! I must have watched episodes on repeat and I had the toy released in the U.K.
When you mentioned his partner getting murdered in the beginning, my mind went to the program implanting his mind into the motorcycle. Seems like a wasted opportunity they could've gone with but then the comparisons to Knight Rider might've been a lot closer. :P
"DESIGNED TO TRAVEL AT SPEEDS OF OVER *THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILES PER HOUR*"
SYNTH MUSIC PLAYS
I told my girlfriend about this show the other day and she looked at me like I have two heads!
Ooh! Ooh! History of Rough Riders and/or Stompers! 😁
Look, it clearly is both knight rider and air wolf... cause when I was 5, we played Knight Rider Air Wolf Street Hawk in the playground, and that's basically all the evidence you need.
Then by that logic, I have Rambo Gymkata. Your story checks out.
"It's the Ocean's Eleven of the parking lot." Lol. Gotta love it.
I sadly still have conversations on what happens if you hit the brakes and turbo at the same time.
i wanna watch street hawk bad as hell. They way they fill all the trailors and short clips shown make it seam cool as hell
You should do a show that showed "Tales of the Golden Monkey"
Excellent video
Loved that show. Haven't seen it since the 80s now, would be cool to see again.
@@StariusPrime it was put out on DVD ~5-10 Years ago... (Before the Lead {Dad from 7th Heaven} ran into some present day 'Legal issues')
- Modern eyes might also judge it for the Casting of a Latina as the Faux Asian Villainess
All I remember from a lot of these shows are the theme songs now.
@@StariusPrime I think it's on DVD now
Picking up on the success of "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
Impressed by the amount of merchandise for such a short-lived show.
When I first heard of Street Hawk, I just thought that someone on the production team was a fan of Kamen Rider. I didn't even think of it possibly being a Knight Rider rip-off. Mainly because I haven't actually seen an episode of Knight Rider in at least 2 decades (the 2008 series doesn't count).
Nice to see in these desperate times you’re still able to maintain a mullet... Love it!
0:13 Was that "daredevil" reference intentional? Rex Smith played Daredevil in the "Trial of the Incredible Hulk"
We mention that in the video
I vividly remember this show but couldn't remember the name. So glad you covered this.
Hello? Excuse me..? Is this where I cast my vote for Is It Airwolf?
Hello....?
Street Hawk was my favourite series !
Pre-notifications gang rise!
LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! This show and AUTOMAN was my YOUTH!!!
So of we follow the current pattern the next History will either be Knight Rider or Speed Buggy. 🤔
or harken back to Speed Racer.
still humming the title theme when rinding my bike very fast... I am 42