3 months ago 05th Aug 08:45
|s news Jones Joins Hollywood's Biker Boys.... Movie tough guy Vinnie Jones has spent much of his Hell Ride paycheque on his new love of motorbiking after playing a rider in the film.
The former British soccer star treated himself to a top-of-the-range Harley Davidson bike and now it has become his favoured mode of transport as he rides around his adopted Los Angeles.
He says, "When I got the call for Hell Ride, we went out Santa Clarita way (California) and we were driving around with this guy who owns the Glory motorcycle shop in Hollywood, and the buzz just came back.
"I phoned my pal Jason Statham and said, 'Take me down to Harley in Glendale.' So I went in and saw a Harley and bought it. My money on the film basically went to my new Harley!" And Jones can't believe he's back in the saddle after a bike crash years ago put him off motorcycles.
He recalls, "When I was 17 I bought a Kawasaki and nearly killed myself on it.
"I was just going around a country lane too fast, as you do, leaning right over, and a great big lorry was coming the other way, so I flipped it and thought, 'This is the end,' and went right into a barbed wire fence.
"I had to go to hospital, so I thought that was the end of my riding days."
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