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McQueen – King of The Icons

Written: 2007/01/18 : 12:01. Read 20002 times (-4/day).

Hollywood legend Steve McQueen has been voted the most iconic biker of all time, according to a MCN London Motorcycle Show survey in conjunction with Yahoo! Cars.

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The 1960s all-action film star took one in every four of the 2254 votes registered on yahoo.co.uk. McQueen, who died of lung cancer in 1980, saw off a list of motorcycle racing legends, actors and stunt riders in the New Year poll.
In second place was double grand prix world champion and 70s sex symbol, Barry Sheene, closely followed by seven-time MotoGP champion, Valentino Rossi.

Daredevil, Evel Knieval, famous for his spectacular bone-breaking crashes was ranked fourth while Marlon Brando, star of one of the quintessential biking films, The Wild Ones, managed seventh.
Languishing at the back of the table, scoring only 2 per cent of the votes each, were Mission Impossible actor Tom Cruise and Long Way Round star Ewan McGregor. Both are well known for their love of riding motorcycles, on and off screen.
As well as being a successful racer, McQueen preferred to do many of his own film stunts.

His most notorious motorcycle moment came from a sequence in the film The Great Escape where, as a prisoner of war, his character’s escape was foiled by one last jump over a barbed wire fence. The BBC recently mimicked this stunt as part of its Christmas schedule.
The survey is a revealing insight to the biker’s mind. Despite numerous celebrities currently riding motorcycles, a 44-year-old image of McQueen sat on a Triumph is instantly recognisable by many generations, rivalling that of The Beatles on the Abbey Road zebra crossing.

Bike fans should head to the MCN London Motorcycle Show at ExCeL on February 1-4 2007 to see breath-taking stunt action, the very latest new motorcycles, new product launches, hundreds of bike accessories along with a chance to meet celebrity riders and, of course, the MCN babes.

1.Steve McQueen 25%
1960s Hollywood actor and racer

2.Barry Sheene 21%
1977-78 World 500GP champion

3.Valentino Rossi 21%
Seven times MotoGP champion

4.Evel Knievel 10%
World’s most famous stunt rider

5.Joey Dunlop 8%
One of the Isle of Man’s greatest riders

6.Mike Hailwood 6%
Briton.

Considered to be the ‘greatest motorcycle racer ever

7.Marlon Brando 3%
Hollywood actor, star of biker gang movie ‘The Wild Ones’

8.Mick Doohan 2%
World 500GP champion 1994-1998

9.Tom Cruise 2%
Hollywood actor, starred in Top Gun

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