Timerider Poster Original Daybill 1982 Fred Ward Biker
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann is a 1982 action film directed by William Dear and starring Fred Ward as Lyle Swann, a cross country dirt bike racer. The film was scored, produced and co-written (with director William Dear) by Michael Nesmith. Michael Nesmith was a member of the band The Monkees. The movie is produced by Zoomo Production, which is a subsidiary of Michael Nesmith's Pacific Arts Corporation. The movie was also released by Pacific Arts Video, another entity of Nesmith's, who appears briefly as one of the Baja 1000 officials in the beginning of the film. Connections in the film can be found to other time travel films such as 1979's Time After Time and the 1980 time-travel film Somewhere in Time.
