- published: 11 May 2016
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Ben Hardy, born Benjamin F. Hardy, was an African-American motorcycle engineer and chopper builder, who is best known for creating the customized choppers for the characters 'Captain America' and 'Billy' which featured in the 1969 Peter Fonda road movie called Easy Rider. A movie which influenced more people to take an interest in motorcycles and choppers than any other.
The Captain America bike, made from a then 20 year old, heavy customized Harley-Davidson panhead is consider one of the most iconic motorcycles ever built, one which capture the zeitgeist of a generation and became an anti-establishment symbol.
Working with another Black motorcycle builder, coordinator Cliff Vaugh, Hardy built two 'Billy' bikes and three 'Captain Americas', one of which was destroyed in the making of the movie, the rest of which were stolen. The 'Billy' bike was typical of the custom motorcycles Black bikers were riding at the time.
Hardy and Vaugh remained large unknown and uncredited in for 25 years as they were not accepted as being equal due to their color and, as African-Americans, were not welcomed into amongst the mainstream White motorcycle world in the USA.
Actors: Barry Shipman (writer), Roy Barcroft (actor), Jack Tornek (actor), Lee Van Cleef (actor), Henry Wills (actor), Grant Withers (actor), Joseph Kane (director), Mary Treen (actress), Willis Bouchey (actor), Tristram Coffin (actor), Jim Davis (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Chick Hannan (actor), Percy Helton (actor), Victor Jory (actor),
Plot: The coming of the railroad to Cedar City spells the end of the stagecoach as the government gives the mail contract to the fastest means of delivery. McCord loses the stagecoach line gambling with the new buyer, but has enough hidden money to buy a ranch and some cattle. To make more money, he starts a gang to rob the railroad, express offices and steal cattle. But the railroads send out special agent Cameron to end his reign of violence.
Keywords: 1870s, ambush, archive-footage, b-movie, b-western, barfly, bartender, buckboard, cattle, cattle-ranchAll I am is the bones you made for me
So garishly clean
White as the horses, they carry me away
And all my demons, you said, come and go with a haze
I might as well took a
I'll grow old in my way.
Just like you do.
Oh there ain't no diamonds in the boredom
Oh there ain't no darkness that I fear
Oh there ain't no way to say I love you more
So be clear, just to be clear
So be clear, be clear.
All I am is the bones you made for me
Just driftwood for the sea
Heavy as the horses, that carry me away.
That carry me away.
Oh there ain't no diamonds in the boredom
Oh there ain't no darkness that I fear
Oh there ain't no way to say I love you more
So be clear, be clear
Oh there ain't no diamonds in the boredom
Oh oh oh ain't no darkness that I fear
Oh oh oh ain't no way to say I love you more
So be clear, just to be clear
So be clear, be clear.
Oh there ain't no diamonds in the boredom
No there ain't no darkness that I fear
Oh there ain't no way to say I love you more