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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swan, directed by William Dear, is the 1982 time travel movie starring Fred Ward as Lyle Swan, a cross country dirt bike racer.

Plot

When Swan goes miles off course he stumbles across a time travel experiment that utilizes two "cannons" that fire temporal energy to send each other back in time. Swan gets sent back to 1877 but rides off before the time cannons can return him to the future. Unsure of what has happened to him, Swan rides across the wild west in red motorcycle leathers and a red dirt bike, scaring local Mexicans who think he is the devil.

Swan meets a beautiful Mexican woman and sleeps with her but she is later kidnapped by a ruthless criminal, Porter Reese (portrayed by Peter Coyote) and his gang of rapists, thieves, and murderers. They also manage to capture Lyle Swan's dirt bike, leading to a series of hijinx, while Swan gets help from a posse trying to capture or kill the gang of criminals.

In a final showdown, Reese and Swan face each other atop a plateau. Just as a helicopter sent by the builders of the time machine shows up to take Swan home, his dirt bike falls off the side of the plateau, distracting Reese. He gets mangled by the copter's tail rotor, leaving only a pair of bloody boots behind. It is then that Swan spots his Mexican lover holding up a pendant he had been wearing, handed down from his great-grandfather... and he relizes that he is his own great-grandfather.

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