Easy Rider's chopper is up for auction

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The famous "Captain America" chopper Peter Fonda rode in the classic film Easy Rider is once again hitting the auction block.

Easy Rider's chopper is up for auction
By Melvin Backman @CNNMoney September 17, 2014: 5:12 PM ET

Michael Eisenberg, a Los Angeles developer and memorabilia collector who's had the bike for a year, hopes to raise $1 million when he puts it up for sale on Oct. 18.

The bike is the only survivor of four motorcycles: Two custom Harleys used by Dennis Hopper's character and two Captain Americas used by Fonda in the 1969 classic. A biker gang stole all of them except one Captain America bike, which only survived because it was destroyed in the film's final scene, burning next to a levee as the camera panned away.

Fonda gifted the scraps to Dan Haggerty, who kept the motorcycles running during Easy Rider's filming. Haggerty restored the motorcycle and kept it.

He sold it in 2002 to John Parham, president of the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa, Iowa, where it was a big draw for more than a decade before Eisenberg bought it from him in January for an undisclosed sum.