Batgirl Cycle

 

The Batgirl Cycle is what Batgirl uses to travel around Gotham City, from an old unused elevator hidden behind a revolving wall in her apartment, she accesses the Batgirl Cycle. The elevator lowers the cycle down to an alleyway where she zooms out of the door, into the street.

Video

Play the video below to listen to the Batgirl theme song whilst watching the Batgirl Cycle in action.

Yvonne Craig

"One of the reasons I think they hired me because I had been a dancer. Howie Horwitz, who was the owner, and producer Bill Dozier both knew that. When I went into the office to talk to them, they also asked me if I had ever ridden a motorcycle, which indeed I had and owned one at the time. I did all of my stunts, and I also did all of the motorcycle riding. However, we never did any film mixing with rear screen projections. You never really saw me going fast down the street on that thing, as I recall, from a head-on point of view. I always was going somewhere, and they just filmed where ever I was going."
"The motorcycle ride out of the secret exit was an interessting episode. It was the first day of shooting, and I knew the special effects man from somewhere else in Warner Brothers. I had been praticing riding out because I was supposed to ride through a brick wall. It was set up like a long tunnel, and he said, 'Look, if you hit this mark and you at that point absolutely stand on it and give it all you got, it will look like you are riding the wall down. It will be real exciting.' I said 'Terrific!' So, I did exactly as he said, but a little voice in my head said, hand close to the brakes because, it something goes wrong, you would like to be able to hit the brakes."
"Sure enough, the first shot of the day, I went tearing out, and the wall did'nt come down. I was made of plywood and I would'nt have liked to have gone through it. I hit the brakes, and I went skidding sideways, missing the wall by about an inch. Nobody on the other side knew what was going on. They figured somewhere along the line I had chickened out and decided not to do it at all. Anyway, it worked the second time around."

Facts about the Bat-Cycle

• The Batgirl Bat-Cycle used for the 1967 Batman ABC Presentation was a different bike that was used in the actual series.
• The Batgirl Bat-Cycle is really an Yamaha YDS-5E done up.