“Steve was such a great motorcyclist, that in some of those scenes, who wore a Nazi uniform, and performed some of the Nazi stunts.”
The motorcycle was actually a reworked Triumph made to resemble a German BMW. The BMW’s couldn’t clear the fence, too slow.
Also, some trivia is that after cutting those daily scenes McQueen would go riding around the countryside on the Triumph and wearing his Nazi uiform, which had the locals turning their heads.
In a world long ago, Steve and a bunch of riders would
cool off with a beer underneath a tractor trailer out at the Greenhorn enduro in the mojave desert, I drank a coke. He was
my hero.