Tricia Helfer, Katee Sackhoff rev up their motorcycles

Some of this summer’s biggest movies feature motorcycles in supporting roles. There’s a Harley-Davidson in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” an MV Agusta in “The Dark Knight,” and multiple customs in the late-summer biker flick “Hell Ride,” presented by Quentin Tarantino. While the two-wheel vehicles are all different, the riders are mostly the same. They’re men.

One in 10 motorcyclists is a woman, but that statistic is rarely reflected on screens big or small. If an actress does “ride,” it tends to be only for the camera and it’s usually rigged, as it was for Renée Zellweger in “Leatherheads,” whose Indian was operated by remote.

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