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* Released in the After Hours DLC, the Oppressor MkII from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' is a clear example of this. The player can choose between machine guns, explosive MGs, and even missiles. But to fully utilize this vehicle, the player has to shell out at least an extra $2,950,000 to buy a nightclub and the Terrorbyte.
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* ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'': Hovering bikes are used by the villainous [=SharpClaw=] tribe. The game features a few racing sections in which Fox commandeers one.
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* ''Film/BlackPanther2018'': We don't see any, but they get a mention when Shuri is trying to coach Ross on how to fly a Wakandan plane.
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'''Ross:''' Wait, you guys have ''hoverbikes?''
-->'''Shuri:''' It's just like riding a hoverbike.\\
'''Ross:''' Wait, you guys have ''hoverbikes?''
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** ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'': Anakin Skywalker goes on a search for his kidnapped mother on his native planet of Tatooine using a swoop speeder bike.
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** ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': Speeder bikes feature prominently in the second act of the film, with [[{{Mooks}} Imperial Scout Troopers]] using them to traverse the giant trees and undergrowth on the forest moon of Endor. Luke, Leia and some Ewoks ensure they don't reach the Imperial base to warn it.
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** ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': Speeder bikes feature prominently in the second act of the film, with [[{{Mooks}} Imperial Scout Troopers]] using them to traverse the giant trees and undergrowth on the forest moon of Endor. Han Solo, Luke, Leia and some Ewoks ensure they don't reach the Imperial base to warn it.
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** ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'': Anakin Skywalker goes on a search for his kidnapped mother on a swoop speeder bike.
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** ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'': Jedi Master Stass Allie and two clone troopers patrol with speeder bikes on Saleucami. Then the troopers receive [[ThePurge Order 66]], fall back behind her and blast her speeder to pieces, killing her.
** ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'': Jedi Master Stass Allie and two clone troopers patrol with speeder bikes on Saleucami. Then the troopers receive [[ThePurge Order 66]], fall back behind her and blast her speeder to pieces, killing her.
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** ''[[Film/{{Solo}} Solo: A Star Wars Story]]'': The Cloud Riders gang led by Enfys Nest uses swoop flying bikes that can hover when closer to the ground.
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* These can be seen briefly in ''Film/{{Back to the Future Part II}}'', when some police cycles appear at the courthouse when Griff and his gang smash through the windows.
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** ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' features flying bikes prominently in the second act of the film, with [[{{Mooks}} Imperial Scout Troopers]] using speeder bikes to traverse the giant trees and undergrowth on the forest moon of Endor.
** ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'': Anakin Skywalker goes on a search for his kidnapped mother on a swoop speeder bike.
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** ''[[Film/{{Solo}} Solo: A Star Wars Story]]'': The Cloud Riders gang led by Enfys Nest uses swoop flying bikes that can hover when closer to the ground.
* These can be seen briefly in''Film/{{Back to the Future Part II}}'', ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', when some police cycles appear at the courthouse when Griff and his gang smash through the windows.
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** ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'': Anakin Skywalker goes on a search for his kidnapped mother on a swoop speeder bike.
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** ''[[Film/{{Solo}} Solo: A Star Wars Story]]'': The Cloud Riders gang led by Enfys Nest uses swoop flying bikes that can hover when closer to the ground.
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* Hoverbikes are available in ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}: Hell on Earth'', although they are rare and expensive to operate. The most famous rider of one is Cole Ballard; Junkyard's resident badass Law Dog. He (and the bike) appear on the front cover of the base book.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Rodina}}'' features gravbikes that you can use to travel quickly on any terrain, including in space.
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* After a dimensionaut successfully returns to Earth in ''ComicBook/BlackScience'', recovered technology makes hovertrikes a common sight.
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[[http://www.techtimes.com/articles/7068/20140516/aero-x-is-a-cool-hover-bike-that-can-be-yours-in-2017-for-85-000.htm They exist]]. They're still in the prototype phase, though, and they'll set you back a good $85,000.
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*''Franchise/RatchetAndClank''
** In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando'', the hover bikes are used for racing. There are 2 planets that houses these kind of challenges, and Ratchet has to compete against 20 racers at once.
** Later in ''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked'', the hover bike is given more mobility and is mounted with a machine gun. It can only be accessed by certain missions that requires it to be used.
** In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando'', the hover bikes are used for racing. There are 2 planets that houses these kind of challenges, and Ratchet has to compete against 20 racers at once.
** Later in ''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked'', the hover bike is given more mobility and is mounted with a machine gun. It can only be accessed by certain missions that requires it to be used.
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* In ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', Kazuma and Professor Booster use a hoverbike to travel from one end of Bushlands to the other--and they leave the player character behind, so you have to traverse the level on foot. They crash the bike off-screen, and you find the wreckage at the level's end.
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[[CoolBike Bikes are cool]], and PowerFloats, so logically a motorbike that hovers over the ground must be both powerful '''and''' cool!
This is a trope where a personal transportation vehicle that is operated vaguely like a conventional motorcycle is fully locomotive without contact with the actual ground. Regardless of how it is justified in-story, this trope is primarily driven by RuleOfCool: a low-flying vehicle can give a much [[RuleOfPerception greater impression of speed]] than a ground vehicle can, the exposure of the operator gives a greater impression of danger and excitement, and shifting weight and listing during turns can give a very dramatic impression of motion.
This trope applies primarily ground-hugging low-flying vehicles, and is likely to be found in a ScienceFiction milieu that would justify the mechanical design required. The trope can marginally apply to similar higher-flying vehicles, but if a vehicle is made to fly higher primarily that is more likely to be a RocketRide. It exists in a middle ground between the smaller HoverBoard and larger FlyingCar. It is a technological-themed SisterTrope to its more fantasy-oriented equivalents, the MagicCarpet and FlyingBroomstick.
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* ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' features this prominently in the second act of the film, with [[{{Mooks}} Imperial Scout Troopers]] using speeder bikes to traverse the giant trees and undergrowth on the forest moon of Endor.
* These can be seen briefly in ''Film/{{Back to the Future Part II}}'', when some police cycles appear at the courthouse when Griff and his gang smash through the windows.
* ''Film/JudgeDredd''. Dredd flies a Mark IV Lawmaster (Improved Model), which is a flight-capable version of the standard Lawmaster motorcycle. The members of the Council's guards fly similar vehicles while pursuing him.
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* Several examples in ''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} Warhammer 40,000]]'':
** Eldar in particular make common use of them. Both the Craftworld and Dark Eldar have their own models, with the Craftworld Eldar using back-leaning seats while the Dark Eldar favor forward-leaning pilots. Some also use larger varieties, like the two-seated Vyper jetbikes that mount heavier weaponry or serve as staff vehicles for the Eldar equivalent of officers.
** Sammael, Grand Master of the Ravenwing, of the Dark Angels Space Marine chapter, rides an AceCustom Imperial jetbike, one of the very few models the Imperium still has.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' campaign "The Great Super Villain Contest". The Crimson Claw's servants ride hover scooters that can travel up to 72 m.p.h. while flying a few inches off the ground.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'', Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society #14 article "Civilian Vehicles for Striker". The Grav Cycle looks like a motorcycle with skids instead of wheels. It's fusion powered and can fly at up to 2,000 kilometers per hour.
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* During the DramaticChaseOpening in Creator/DelphineSoftwareInternational's 1992 game ''VideoGame/{{Flashback}}'', in which the protagonist tries making a daring escape on a hoverbike only to be shot down over the HungryJungle of [[{{Terraform}} Titan]].
* ''VideoGame/MegaManX'': The Ride Chasers are bikes without wheels that just hovers slightly above ground. They also feature an energy cannon at the front, at least in X4-X5 you can do a "wheelie dash attack" that decimates everything in front of it, and as shown in X4 it can double as a jet ski.
* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/FullThrottle''. Ben does not trust anything that does not run on wheels, but he needs to make a long stunt jump over a large canyon when the bridge is out. He has to nab a hover module from a hover car and attach it to his bike. It still runs on the ground, but the hover module gives him enough airtime to make the leap.
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* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' season nine episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E13TheJoyOfSect The Joy of Sect]]". Bart and Lisa are {{Deprogram}}ed by tempting them with literally hovering bicycles. Turns out they were just staged with fishing wire and Flander's blowing through a comb.
* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' is "The Ice Vikings", which has the heroic team summon five motorcycles by remote control. While astride these vehicles, they reconfigure into hover-bikes that are able to intercept and attack the villains' flying longboat. This is the sole appearance of these dual-drive vehicles; thereafter, the team relies mainly on jet packs to get around.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'', Ulrich uses a monocycle called the Overbike as his primary method of transportation in Lyoko. It normally travels along the ground, but built-in rocket thrusters enable it to fly.
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This is a trope where a personal transportation vehicle that is operated vaguely like a conventional motorcycle is fully locomotive without contact with the actual ground. Regardless of how it is justified in-story, this trope is primarily driven by RuleOfCool: a low-flying vehicle can give a much [[RuleOfPerception greater impression of speed]] than a ground vehicle can, the exposure of the operator gives a greater impression of danger and excitement, and shifting weight and listing during turns can give a very dramatic impression of motion.
This trope applies primarily ground-hugging low-flying vehicles, and is likely to be found in a ScienceFiction milieu that would justify the mechanical design required. The trope can marginally apply to similar higher-flying vehicles, but if a vehicle is made to fly higher primarily that is more likely to be a RocketRide. It exists in a middle ground between the smaller HoverBoard and larger FlyingCar. It is a technological-themed SisterTrope to its more fantasy-oriented equivalents, the MagicCarpet and FlyingBroomstick.
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* ''Film/HeavyMetal''. In the segment "Harry Canyon", the goons Rudnick sends to follow Harry's cab ride on flying devices that fly about 20 yards off the ground and presumably could go higher.
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* ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' features this prominently in the second act of the film, with [[{{Mooks}} Imperial Scout Troopers]] using speeder bikes to traverse the giant trees and undergrowth on the forest moon of Endor.
* These can be seen briefly in ''Film/{{Back to the Future Part II}}'', when some police cycles appear at the courthouse when Griff and his gang smash through the windows.
* ''Film/JudgeDredd''. Dredd flies a Mark IV Lawmaster (Improved Model), which is a flight-capable version of the standard Lawmaster motorcycle. The members of the Council's guards fly similar vehicles while pursuing him.
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* Several examples in ''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} Warhammer 40,000]]'':
** Eldar in particular make common use of them. Both the Craftworld and Dark Eldar have their own models, with the Craftworld Eldar using back-leaning seats while the Dark Eldar favor forward-leaning pilots. Some also use larger varieties, like the two-seated Vyper jetbikes that mount heavier weaponry or serve as staff vehicles for the Eldar equivalent of officers.
** Sammael, Grand Master of the Ravenwing, of the Dark Angels Space Marine chapter, rides an AceCustom Imperial jetbike, one of the very few models the Imperium still has.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' campaign "The Great Super Villain Contest". The Crimson Claw's servants ride hover scooters that can travel up to 72 m.p.h. while flying a few inches off the ground.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'', Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society #14 article "Civilian Vehicles for Striker". The Grav Cycle looks like a motorcycle with skids instead of wheels. It's fusion powered and can fly at up to 2,000 kilometers per hour.
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* During the DramaticChaseOpening in Creator/DelphineSoftwareInternational's 1992 game ''VideoGame/{{Flashback}}'', in which the protagonist tries making a daring escape on a hoverbike only to be shot down over the HungryJungle of [[{{Terraform}} Titan]].
* ''VideoGame/MegaManX'': The Ride Chasers are bikes without wheels that just hovers slightly above ground. They also feature an energy cannon at the front, at least in X4-X5 you can do a "wheelie dash attack" that decimates everything in front of it, and as shown in X4 it can double as a jet ski.
* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/FullThrottle''. Ben does not trust anything that does not run on wheels, but he needs to make a long stunt jump over a large canyon when the bridge is out. He has to nab a hover module from a hover car and attach it to his bike. It still runs on the ground, but the hover module gives him enough airtime to make the leap.
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* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' season nine episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E13TheJoyOfSect The Joy of Sect]]". Bart and Lisa are {{Deprogram}}ed by tempting them with literally hovering bicycles. Turns out they were just staged with fishing wire and Flander's blowing through a comb.
* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' is "The Ice Vikings", which has the heroic team summon five motorcycles by remote control. While astride these vehicles, they reconfigure into hover-bikes that are able to intercept and attack the villains' flying longboat. This is the sole appearance of these dual-drive vehicles; thereafter, the team relies mainly on jet packs to get around.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'', Ulrich uses a monocycle called the Overbike as his primary method of transportation in Lyoko. It normally travels along the ground, but built-in rocket thrusters enable it to fly.
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