His dyslexia made it difficult for him to operate a motorcycle.

@@michaelj.r457 He also claims the Triumph was the one used in the Great Escape..

@@thedbcooperforum just saw a clip of him saying the first bike was the bike. he layed it down with in 5 ft.

@@thedbcooperforum Bud Ekins built three Fonzie TR5 Triumphs that were rented to the studio. Perhaps he was wrongly told the one he tried to ride that day was the Great Escape TR6, or maybe it really was, after all the scene wasn’t used.

@@meofnz2320 he made the statement on a talk show..a quick search shows this.. Henry Winkler's character Fonzie on Happy Days rode a Triumph motorcycle that was also used by Steve McQueen in The Great Escape. In the movie, McQueen's character, Virgil Hilts, uses a Triumph TR6 Trophy motorcycle to jump over a barbed-wire fence at the German border. The Triumph was a stand-in for the BMW R75 that Hilts had earlier stolen from a German patrol officer In later seasons, it was a mildly 'bobbed' Triumph Trophy 500. As he could not ride, Henry Winkler says that he learned on the same Triumph 650 6T ridden (and jumped) by Bud Ekins in 'The Great Escape' and ended up stuffing it under a truck