ET movie bike sells for, $52,000 at auction.

[Astroyama]

My Japanese friend "Tadashi Yashiro aka 846" claims to have built all the ET bmx bikes for Spielberg back in the day when he worked and raced for Kuwahara as VeloTrack Racer. I met Tadashi Yashiro at Mammoth Mtn CA when he invited/sponsored me to come to Japan and help with the 846 Project building wheelchair accessible boardwalk trails in the wilderness area of Nagano Prefecture right near Zenkoji Temple. MAZDA sponsored.
Tadashi claims the ET basket on the bike was a wooden Saporo beer crate....I believed him....I'm gullable, after all his name is in the Movie Credits.
Nice thread, thanks for sharing.

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[cyclingday]

One of my other hobbies is collecting original movie props. Prices have skyrocketed in the past few years. Even so, this was a crazy price for a non-screen matched (that’s the term for when you can definitively place a prop on screen due to small details like paint chips etc) prop.

Yeah, I agree!
I remember back in the day, when every old turn of the century bike that showed up, was said to be the bike from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
You’d sniff the handlebar to see if Katherine Ross had been there.

 

[bikesnbuses]

Heres my factory built original ET Kuwahara I had in 2015(And wish I still had..) It was super nice.

 

[rockabillyjay]

Maybe there were a number of bikes but as of last July this still hangs in the stairwell at the Lucas Letterman facility in The Presidio in San Francisco. It’s around the corner from our friends office who’s worked at Lucas Film for over 35 years. There are multiple ETs on display so they may have had ridable bikes for some shots and this one for the boom shot.

Interesting that both the full size bike with ET onboard and the scale model the effects shop built have black anodized cranks while the photos of the auction bike are chrome.

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This must be the model for the bike that was sold since it's a different paint job than the bike with ET.
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In the auction description the one in the auction was supposedly ridden by a character named “Steve”…not the Elliot/ET bike

 

[bobcycles]

now a race to find those same K bikes and sell for stupid $$$

"possibly ET Bike...."

 

[gkeep]

In the auction description the one in the auction was supposedly ridden by a character named “Steve”…not the Elliot/ET bike

Sorry, looking at my post it does look like I was confusing Eliot’s bike with the auction bike.

 

[GTs58]

Finally some internet info to verify the sale.

Iconic Props from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial & Back to the Future Net Big Money at Auction

At an event hosted by Julien's Auctions, buyers picked up Elliot's bike from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Marty's Back to the Future Part II Hoverboard.

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