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Rhino Flips Over and Gets Quite a Bashing
Rhino Flips Over and Gets Quite a Bashing

10 Sep 2013, 12:32 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / It looks like hill-climbing aboard SxS machinery requires riders to be really fast taking decisions, especially when things go wrong and it's back to the foot of the hill time. There are onl...

 
Lane Splitting Video Advice from the California Highway Patrol
Lane Splitting Video Advice from the California Highway Patrol

9 Sep 2013, 13:11 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / There's an open debate on lane splitting in many countries and states, but it looks like California got ahead of the pack. The California Highway Patrol has finally surfaced safety guidelines f...

 
RZR's Are Tough as Nails
RZR's Are Tough as Nails

9 Sep 2013, 12:24 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Wearing a seat belt and a helmet is always a great idea when extreme riding is one the day's menu, and this RZR rider seems to confirm this in ways which are beyond any doubt. With ATVs and ...

 
Unbelievably Insane RZR XP Crash, Helmetless Driver Unscathed
Unbelievably Insane RZR XP Crash, Helmetless Driver Unscathed

8 Sep 2013, 12:18 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The Polaris RZR XP is a truly extreme off-road machine, and it's only a small wonder to see it crashing in the most extreme ways, too. However, this video is absolutely insane: we've wa...

 
Look Mom, No Teeth!
Look Mom, No Teeth!

8 Sep 2013, 11:23 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / It's hysterically funny and at the same time worrying seeing so many guys riding ATVs without wearing a helmet. The internet is literally dripping with footage of people getting hurt and seriou...

 
Silly Snowmobile Rider Uses Tree to Stop
Silly Snowmobile Rider Uses Tree to Stop

7 Sep 2013, 08:53 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / There definitely are a lot of better way to stop a snowmobile than crashing it directly into a tree, but it looks like this lolrider hasn't found any of them. At least not this time. What�...

 
Wheelie Fails, Scooter Riders Almost Get It
Wheelie Fails, Scooter Riders Almost Get It

5 Sep 2013, 15:48 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Whoops, another show-off stunt rider wannabe meeting the Russian asphalt in ways he didn't exactly plan... nothing new here. However, what's rather striking about this video is how car...

 
Is This Why Some Riders Fear the Rain?
Is This Why Some Riders Fear the Rain?

5 Sep 2013, 14:40 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Riding a motorcycle in the rain or on wet roads is no wizardry: it's just another set of rules that apply, and those who understand them usually have no problems. In any case, not in cases as c...

 
Watch and Learn: High-Speed Sidecar Trick Goes Very Wrong
Watch and Learn: High-Speed Sidecar Trick Goes Very Wrong

4 Sep 2013, 15:36 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Funny and convenient as they are, sidecar motorcycles come with a very high rick factor when it comes to speeding. This is the lesson two (possibly) Russian guys (judging by the swearwords) have lea...

 
Silly Lolrider Zero, Barrier One
Silly Lolrider Zero, Barrier One

4 Sep 2013, 14:18 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Heavily distracted or appallingly stupid: these were the only tho things which came into mind between the massive doses of hysterical laughter this video caused. We've seen our fair share of...

 
New Euro-Spec Toyota Corolla Gets 5-Star Euro NCAP Rating
New Euro-Spec Toyota Corolla Gets 5-Star Euro NCAP Rating

4 Sep 2013, 11:17 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The new Toyota Corolla sedan for the European market has just taken the maximum five-star rating from Euro NCAP, an important credential for what is essentially a family car. The car scored well in ...

 
New Mazda6 Receives 5-Star Euro NCAP Safety Rating
New Mazda6 Receives 5-Star Euro NCAP Safety Rating

4 Sep 2013, 09:10 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Not surprisingly, since all the cars are made to the same spec in Japan, the new Mazda6 was found by Euro NCAP to be just as safe as it was in the US when the IIHS tested it. Both the salloon and...

 
Flying Go Kart Racing Funny Crash
Flying Go Kart Racing Funny Crash

3 Sep 2013, 16:05 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Some believe that go karts are pretty harmless, just because they have such a generous track and their geometry and low center of gravity appears to make them exceedingly safe. Well, the truth in...

 
Silly Mistake Leads to Silly Crash
Silly Mistake Leads to Silly Crash

3 Sep 2013, 14:45 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / It's hard to tell whether the road was wet or not, but one thing is obvious: we've seen much better riders in similar situations. Some claim there might be some oil on the road, or mayb...

 
2013 MotoGP: Marquez Receives 2 Penalty Points, Crash Data Released
2013 MotoGP: Marquez Receives 2 Penalty Points, Crash Data Released

3 Sep 2013, 09:45 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Things could have gone very bad for a lot of people past Sunday morning during the warm-up session at Silverstone, UK as Marc Marquez failed to slow down at the yellow flag the circuit marshals quic...

 
Nice EL Helmet Kit Can Be a DIY Project
Nice EL Helmet Kit Can Be a DIY Project

2 Sep 2013, 15:08 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Out of the many ideas we can find of public funding websites like Kickstarter, few of them are both very nice and take flight. This EL Helmet Kit is only very nice, but with a $10,000 (€7,572) ...

 
Crazy Crash Destroys 13 Motorcycles in One Second
Crazy Crash Destroys 13 Motorcycles in One Second

2 Sep 2013, 14:35 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / A bizarre yet utterly damaging crash was caught by the CCTV cameras in the Brazilian city of Florianopolis, south of Curitiba. A white car was filmed crashing with fairly high speed (for a urban ...

 
Incredible Close Call as Marquez' Bike Crashes into Crutchlow's
Incredible Close Call as Marquez' Bike Crashes into Crutchlow's

2 Sep 2013, 12:05 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The past weekend provided us with two dramatic crashes during the warm-up of the Silverstone MotoGP round, with the Tech3 Yamaha rider Cal Crutchlow coming off his bike, soon joined by Repsol Honda&...

 
Bad Crash with ATV Landing on Top of Unlucky Rider
Bad Crash with ATV Landing on Top of Unlucky Rider

31 Aug 2013, 09:18 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / What goes up must come down, it's a basic law of physics. However, when it comes to riding up the hill, it's so much better that one just doesn't come back to the ground using the sam...

 
2014 Honda Odyssey Becomes First Minivan to Earn Top Safety Pick+
2014 Honda Odyssey Becomes First Minivan to Earn Top Safety Pick+

29 Aug 2013, 15:29 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The 2014 Honda Odyssey has become the first minivan to earn the Top Safety Pick+ designation awarded by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). Updated for the 2014 model year with adv...