[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/street_hawk.jpg]]
->''"This is 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."''

A fairly trope-heavy 1985 series centered around Jesse Mach (played by Rex Smith), a police troubleshooter enlisted by the government to fight crime undercover on the superbike Street Hawk. Notable for its soundtrack by Music/TangerineDream. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCItnKrXvMM Has a kickass opening theme song]].

A single season of thirteen episodes was made. A lot of interesting information on the series can be found at the [[http://www.streethawkonline.com/ Street Hawk Online]] website.
----
!!The franchise provides examples of:

* BigBlackout: In one episode some roadwork near Command Center damages the building's electrical feed and all of the high-tech wizardry inside it (especially the computers that help with Hyperthrust) is unavailable for the duration. Norman spends the whole sub-plot struggling with jackass workers, too.
* CoolBike: The titular Street Hawk, capable of high speeds (300-plus Miles Per Hour) through [[TechnoBabble hyperthrust]] and packing a nose-mounted [[EnergyWeapon particle]] [[WeaponizedCar beam]] (changed to a [[LightningGun lightning gun]] in the Canadian version), and eventually machine guns and ''rocket launchers''.
* CoolGarage: Command Central, comes complete with a gym and a secret exit.
* CoolHelmet: Jesse wears a black helmet that not only masks his face, but has a built-in camera with various vision modes and zoom function. It also serves as a communication interface with MissionControl so he has Tuttle's support who sees everything Jesse sees with it on.
* CowboyCop: Jesse. His EstablishingCharacterMoment is risking himself (and a very valuable bike) on a motorcycle stunt done for kicks, and DaChief chews him out as a result. After his knee injury in the pilot episode leaves him transferred to desk duty, he becomes a Cowboy ''PR guy'' as a result.
* DaChief: The Chief of Police, to whom Jesse reports while not fighting crime on a motorcycle.
* DirtyCop: Multiple examples throughout the series, but the pilot episode stands out because the BigBad has somehow strong-armed the Police Commissioner to be his goon (before the episode starts. He does some additional threatening on-screen when the Commissioner tries to do a ScrewThisImOuttaHere mid-episode as a result of him killing a cop).
* DuelingShows: Went up against ''Series/KnightRider''. You can probably guess how that went. [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Unless you were in India at that time]].
* EquipmentUpgrade: The particle beam is a powerful weapon but impractical, so a pair of cut-down machine guns and rocket launchers were added to the Street Hawk in only the 2nd episode.
* EvilCounterpart: The episode "A Second Self" featured an old friend of Jesse's who turns out to be an assassin who does his killings with a tricked-out car.
* GPSEvidence: The pilot episode had the BigBad racing around using a tricked-out "monster truck" of a pick-up, which had an unusual kind of paint on it. After Jesse pulls some chips off the bike of his deceased friend (and a lot of legwork), the heroes manage to find the one body shop in town that made that specific kind of work (still, the BigBad paid cash-only and there was no name... but the Commissioner's recently-scratched car ''was'' there and the shop's manager remembered that one man knew the other...)
* MissionControl: A special agent, Norman Tuttle (Joe Regalbuto), was able to see through Jesse's eyes via cameras on the helmet and bike and communicate with him via radio. Norman was also responsible for monitoring the motorcycle's systems, providing Jesse with intel on missions, and navigating the bike during 300 MPH "hyperthrust" mode.
* MoreDakka: One of the Street Hawk's weapons is a cut-down M-60 machine gun. Jesse often uses it by blowing out enemy tires or [[ATeamFiring blasting around them and making them run like hell]].
* OddCouple: Standard ActionDuo of worry-wart brainiac that takes care of the high-tech gizmos and is the VoiceWithAnInternetConnection (Norman) and devil-may-care field guy that charges into action with said gizmos (Jesse).
* OpeningNarration: See page quote.
* OperationBlank: "Project Street Hawk", a secret government operation to create and field-test a revolutionary urban attack motorcycle for eventual release to law enforcement. It's super-secret (and thus a two-man operation) because the government obviously thinks being blatant about ''an attack motorcycle'' would draw some negative press.
* OverDrive: Known as "Hyperthrust." Interestingly, it's computer-controlled, which is required with a countdown and a prepared route for the bike to avoid collisions. It also means that on a BigBlackout episode the computers aren't reliable and thus Hyperthrust is not available.
* PocketRocketLauncher: After the Street Hawk's laser malfunctions in the climax of the pilot episode, Norman decides to increase the motorcycle's firepower in the second episode by adding a missile launcher and a cut-down M-60 machine gun to the bike. Both weapons fit within the Street Hawk's nose and occasional close-ups of the launcher firing imply that the missiles (which [[StuffBlowingUp blow up real good]] and [[AsLethalAsItNeedsToBe non-lethally when required]]) are the size of a firecracker.
* SecretIdentity: The entire premise of the show is a crime-fighting superhero by night who's really just an ordinary guy by day, and only one man knows his identity.
* ShoutOut: The secret exit to the CoolGarage is suspiciously similar to the one in ''Radio/TheGreenHornet'', complete with an ad billboard that slides apart to let the vehicle through, and also has enough electronics to compete with the [[Franchise/{{Batman}} BatCave]].
* {{Superhero}}: Jessie has the typical elements, such as a SecretIdentity, a CodeName, his riding outfit comes with a CoolHelmet masking his face, CoolGarage and his bike is like nothing ever created.
* SuperPrototype: The Street Hawk motorcycle is this and the original point of Project: Street Hawk is to test it out. The pilot episode has a concession to the reality to that with the bike's monitoring system beginning to flash a warning to MissionControl that it was overheating during Hyperthrust and Tuttle orders Mach back to base. Presumably, Tuttle corrects that specific problem since it does not come up for the rest of the series.
* TranslationMatchmaking: In Argentina, the show was released as ''The Fantastic Motorcycle'', implying it was part of a franchise that included ''The Fantastic Car'' (''Series/KnightRider'') and ''The Fantastic Helicopter'' (''Series/{{Airwolf}}''), series which had absolutely NOTHING to do with one another!
* VehicleTitle: "Street Hawk" being the name of the motorcycle (and project, and eventually Jesse's vigilante moniker).
----