History Film / TimeriderTheAdventureOfLyleSwann

* CreatorCameo: Director/co-writer William Dear shows up as a tech at the Timerider labs, and co-writer/executive producer/composer [[Music/TheMonkees Michael Nesmith]] shows up as a member of Swann's pit crew early in the film. Dear points out where both are on the DVDCommentary.

''Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann'', directed by William Dear, is a 1982 time travel-influenced action film starring Fred Ward as Lyle Swann, a cross country dirt bike racer. The movie was written, scored, and produced by [[Music/TheMonkees Michael Nesmith]].

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Lyle's bike has a cassette deck, but that helmet with a built in zoom feature and distance readings sure isn't 1980s standard (nor 2010s, either!)

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Claire tells Lyle at gun point to take his clothes off. Even Lyle are shocked about a woman raping a man.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: The BigBad's name is Porter Reese. The actor who plays him has an ''even more western name'': Peter Coyote.

* CreatorCameo: Director/co-writer William Dear shows up as a tech at the Timerider labs, and co-writer/executive producer/composer MichaelNesmith shows up as a member of Swann's pit crew early in the film. Dear points out where both are on the DVDCommentary.

* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Claire is skinny dipping and Lyle comes along and decides to do the same in the same lake without noticing her. The three bad guys arrive, too and notice Lyle but not Claire. Five people at the lake at once. In the wild west, that's practically rush hour.
* StableTimeLoop

* TapOnTheHead: Claire is hit on the head and is out for however long it takes to be ridden across a horse to the bad guy's hideout.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Lyle's bike has a cassette deck, but that helmet with a built in zoom feature and distance readings sure isn't 1980s standard (nor 2010s, either!)

* ShootTheMoney: A lot of our audience is here to see a cool motorcycle, and the first 20 minutes is spent paying up on that.

* CuriousAsAMonkey: The boy in the mission basement.

* MeaningfulName: Claire's last name is "Cygne". [[spoiler: "Cygne" is french for "Swan". They even point out that she's from Louisiana, a heavily French area.]]

* MyCarHatesMe: When Swann is surprised by Porter and his thugs.

* RuleOfDrama: Lyle can't slowly wheel into town and politely ask where he is, noo... he has to jump his motorcycle over a wall by complete surprise and continue to ride around town shouting questions at the obviously terrified people - which wouldn't be nice to do in the 1980's, either. Only after he has done that for a bit do the bad guys show up and give him a reason to continue riding around.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Lyle's bike has a cassette deck, but that helmet with a built in zoom feature and distance readings sure isn't 1980's standard (nor 2010's, either!)

* ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle: the title.

'''''Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann''''', directed by William Dear, is a 1982 time travel-influenced action film starring Fred Ward as Lyle Swann, a cross country dirt bike racer. The movie was written, scored, and produced by [[Music/TheMonkees Michael Nesmith]].

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: The head scientist for the Timerider project shows up in a helicopter as the heroes run out of ammo, scaring away Reese's gang and unintentionally dispatching of Reese with the tail rotor.]]

* TheFullNameAdventures

* CharacterTitle: We all knew who Lyle Swann was, right?

* XMeetsY: TheEighties motocross meets TheWildWest.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: The head scientist for the Timerider project shows up in a helicopter as the heroes run out of ammo, scaring away Reese's gang and unintentionally dispatching if Reese with the tail rotor.]]

* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Claire is skinny dipping and Lyle comes along and decides to do the same in the same lake without noticing her. The three bad guys arrive, too and notice Lyle but not Claire. Three people at the lake at once. In the wild west, that's practically rush hour.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy:

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Lyle's bike has a cassette deck, but that helmet with a built in zoom feature and distance readings sure isn't 1980's standard (nor 2012, either!)

* RuleOfDrama: Lyle can't slowly wheel into town and politely ask where he is, noo... he has to jump his motorcycle over a wall by complete surprise and continue to ride around town shouting questions at the obviously terrified people. Only after he has done that for a bit do the bad guys show up and give him a reason to continue riding around.

'''''Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann''''', directed by William Dear, is a 1982 time travel-influenced action film starring Fred Ward as Lyle Swann, a cross country dirt bike racer. The movie was written, scored, and produced by [[MichaelNesmith]].

'''''Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann''''', directed by William Dear, is a 1982 time travel-influenced action film starring Fred Ward as Lyle Swann, a cross country dirt bike racer. The movie was written, scored, and produced by [[Music/TheMonkees Michael Nesmith]].