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she-devils on wheels (1968)

The everyday life of the Maneaters, a female motor-cycle gang is one of bike races, parties, loving and fighting. Led by Queen (Betty Connell) they chew up and spit out men for the fun of it, but new initiate Karen (Christie Wagner) seems to be rather taken by one particular man, something that just ain't done in the Maneaters. To prove her loyalty Karen has to watch as he's beaten, then made to drag him behind her bike. But this idealistic lifestyle is threatened when a rival male gang decides to move into their territory. It's time for the Maneaters to prove they ain't no pushovers.
By 1968 there had been a few successful bikesploitation films, enough to attract the attention of Lewis, who decided he wanted a part of the action. What he provided was a low budget film with a motley assortment of women in go-go boots and bikes looking for thrills, which involves lots of implied sex, and visual violence. It's Lewis's usual mix of poor acting, and bad direction, but even so there is enough here to make it watchable, and even entertaining in parts, even if it is for the wrong reasons.

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