Quote from: Monster Dave on November 13, 2008, 08:58:12 AM
It looked more like a Paul Smart to me back when when saw the movie.

Not really seeing that.   


Watching the scene again, closest Duc would be Sport Classic S:


Looking close, and I wish I could find a better pic of the bike in question, it is a parallel twin, thus my reasoning:

Quote from: Bick on November 13, 2008, 09:32:48 AM
Not really seeing that.   


Watching the scene again, closest Duc would be Sport Classic S:

The only visual difference between these to in regards to an animated movie, is the dual stacked exhaust - but I agree with you. Good eye! 

Just saw the trailer for "Yes Man."  There's a scene with Jim Carey doing a wheelie around town in a Hyper.   

Quote from: causeofkaos on November 11, 2008, 04:02:26 PM
That isnt Pro Italia
The parking out front, PI has no parking up front
Those arent the houses across the street from PI
No stairs at PI
I used to live up the blok from PI, I would walk down every night and stair through the window.They have wiped a lot of my hand prints and fluids off of their front window.

FYI....http://www.proitalia.com/blog/2006_03_01_proitalia_archive.html

WOW i still say that looks nothing like PI, i could be wrong but i doubt it

skeptic huh....

http://proitalia.com/reviews/entourage.html

son of a ball sack
i sit corrected 
i really dont remember those stairs

Quote from: deweey on November 27, 2008, 09:57:21 PM
Just saw the trailer for "Yes Man."  There's a scene with Jim Carey doing a wheelie around town in a Hyper.   

With the sound of an inline 4... 

Yeah, I always thought of it as a Ducati, but after doing some web searching myself, I found out it to be a "calahan" so I deleted it. 

I, too, think it looks like a Paul Smart.  I actually went to YouTube and watched most of the movie to confirm. 

Quote from: Bick on November 12, 2008, 04:34:14 PM
In response to mcgalinmd's deleted post...




In the movie "Ratatouille", the female chef drives a fancy motorcycle. At at least one point during the film, you can see the "brand" of the motorcycle dispalyed on the gas tank. I only saw it briefly and incompletely, but it appeared to say something like "Calamari", which strikes me as totally in character with Pixar's organizational sense of humor.

Can anyone confirm that this is the case or set me straight if its not?

"The brand of motorcycle that Colette rides, as evidenced by the logo on the gas tank, is "Calahan" - a reference to DP/lighting director Sharon Calahan."
posted by ALongDecember at 1:58 PM on July 8, 2007

http://ask.metafilter.com/66503/What-was-the-make-of-that-motorcycle-in-Ratatouille


My guess is it is very loosely based on a Laverda.

Isn't Google the best! 

"Dollhouse" on FOX starring Eliza Dushku and she rides a 848/1098   


Eliza Dushku showed her skills with the compound bow and arrow and said she would be using it in an upcoming episode of the new series. She was fresh from a day of shooting where she said she had been tearing around on the Los Angeles streets in her leather pants on a Ducati motorcycle and the day before or so she had been in a helicopter shooting downtown.

Yum! 

Quote from: wbeck257 on December 01, 2008, 09:58:36 AM
With the sound of an inline 4... 

Not in the movie it wasn't. It was definitely a Ducati sound...

Quote from: stateprez on December 01, 2008, 07:29:05 AM
FYI....http://www.proitalia.com/blog/2006_03_01_proitalia_archive.html

I knew it!

Quote from: Monster Dave on November 11, 2008, 02:37:53 PM
How much do you think Ducati paid to have thier name plastered all over in the Matrix



?

"promotional consideration" (aka product placement) doesn't always mean "paid", sometimes it just means "donated".  It was widely reported that GM donated over 100 Cadillacs for use in the sequels.  I imagine the deal was similar with Ducati.

Sidenote: That bike (well, one of the several used as Trinity's in the freeway scene) sat in the basement of the production office for the 1+ years I worked there during post (when the production returned from australia).  Never moved.  Covered in dust.  I believe one of the Exec Prod kept it.  It probably *still* hasn't been ridden, unless he sold it.

causeofkaos: those (2 or 3) stairs led to an elevated platform that the two sales desks sat on for as long as I've been going to PI, since ~2002.  They're no longer there as PI was (subtly) remodeled last year.

Wow!  Surprised to see that this thread has been dead for almost two years with a D16 in both Wall Street and Expendables.

Even a little bit of a highlight on the clankity clutch in Expendables. 

Already mentioned Ducti Superbike in Tron.  That movie is going to be awesome in 3-D with D-Box seating.