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France Drops Motorcycle Legal Speed on Secondary Roads to 60 Km/h
France Drops Motorcycle Legal Speed on Secondary Roads to 60 Km/h

1 Apr 2014, 12:19 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Not sure if this is just another April Fools’ joke, but as the news comes from France, we can indeed expect the worst. According to the online edition of LePoint, the French authorities are pl...

 
Spinners and Neons - That’s What This Lexus RX Needs Now
Spinners and Neons - That’s What This Lexus RX Needs Now

31 Mar 2014, 15:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / There was a time when your customized car had to wear all sorts of graphics over its body to stand out. The more, the merrier was the motto and you could combine them with as many manufacturers stic...

 
Lifan to Pay $630,000 Fine for Clean Air Act Violation, Plus Bond
Lifan to Pay $630,000 Fine for Clean Air Act Violation, Plus Bond

30 Mar 2014, 09:48 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The US subsidiary of the Chinese manufacturer Lifan, American Lifan Industry Inc. will have to pay $630,000 (€458,000) in fines after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that the co...

 
BMW 335i Meets Guard Rail, Gets Totaled
BMW 335i Meets Guard Rail, Gets Totaled

24 Mar 2014, 16:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Troubling, trouser-ruining times for a South African driver a couple of weeks ago when he saw his life flashing in front of his eyes after having a much too close encounter with a guardrail, while h...

 
Toyota Land Cruiser and G-Wagon Gangs Up on Nissan Patrol in Russia
Toyota Land Cruiser and G-Wagon Gangs Up on Nissan Patrol in Russia

20 Mar 2014, 16:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It’s been a while since we’ve seen a Toyota getting involved in some crazy road rage action. Maybe that’s because Toyota drivers are old or since they went for such a car, they do ...

 
On How Dorna’s Huge Mistake Wreaks Havoc through the MotoGP Championship
On How Dorna’s Huge Mistake Wreaks Havoc through the MotoGP Championship

19 Mar 2014, 17:06 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / I can’t remember the last time when things in MotoGP were as crazy as they are now, with only a day until the first official racing outing is made in Qatar. After initially planning some chang...

 
Lexus SC Burns Its Brakes Out at TX2K14
Lexus SC Burns Its Brakes Out at TX2K14

16 Mar 2014, 11:17 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Burnouts... Some consider them a proper way to heat up your tires and make them stickier before a drag race, other think it's some form of art because, like any other art piece, it's beaut...

 
Noob Rider with Poor Skills Flees from Police, Crashes
Noob Rider with Poor Skills Flees from Police, Crashes

15 Mar 2014, 09:57 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Even though not stopping when a police cruiser is asking you to and flashes the blue lights is not exactly a good idea, fleeing from it is surely one of the worst decisions a rider can make. And in ...

 
Toyota Sold Its First Anime Wrapped GT 86 in Japan
Toyota Sold Its First Anime Wrapped GT 86 in Japan

14 Mar 2014, 19:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Don’t worry, the title is correct. Japan culture is very different and there are a lot of guys wrapping their cars with anime characters there. It’s a whole cult, like VIP and bosozoku b...

 
Watch Extreme Bike Flamethrower Action
Watch Extreme Bike Flamethrower Action

14 Mar 2014, 13:30 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Red headers and silencers may be a spectacular sight to behold, but the bikes themselves are not at all happy with this treatment. Still, a lot of riders choose to rev their bikes at rallies and sim...

 
Ride That Damned Bike, Would You?
Ride That Damned Bike, Would You?

13 Mar 2014, 16:52 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Well, I guess this is what any riders with medium off-road experience would have shouted at the star of this video, with no malice associated with the shouting, but a hefty dash of frustration, mayb...

 
Orwell's Big Brother Opens Real-World Office in Belgium
Orwell's Big Brother Opens Real-World Office in Belgium

12 Mar 2014, 16:48 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / To be honest, having to choose between the Brave New World and 1984 is really hard, but in a way I tend to go for Mr. Huxley’s world. At least the society in Huxley’s novel was based on ...

 
Watch and Learn: Speed, Turn, Panic, Crash
Watch and Learn: Speed, Turn, Panic, Crash

11 Mar 2014, 14:02 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The mellow spring day could have easily turned into a nightmare for this rider, as he learned a very important lesson the rather easy way. Basically, as fun as motorcycling is with all the speed, wi...

 
Lane Splitting Plus Careless Driver Equals Pain
Lane Splitting Plus Careless Driver Equals Pain

10 Mar 2014, 14:35 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Only idiots would argue on how helpful lane splitting is for less congestion in traffic… when done the right way. Still, riding in between the lanes is not legal in all the countries or state...

 
Can You Spot the Flying Motorcycle?
Can You Spot the Flying Motorcycle?

8 Mar 2014, 10:48 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Riding fast through the turns is definitely one of the most alluring things about motorcycling and at the same time, one of the things which separate men from boys, so to speak. However, when it com...

 
Hilarious Stunt Fail, Luckily Nobody's Hurt
Hilarious Stunt Fail, Luckily Nobody's Hurt

4 Mar 2014, 14:02 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Truth be told, it’s always good to see everybody unscathed when motorcycle stunts go wrong. And given the very nature of such performances, it’s not exactly seldom when things get out o...

 
One Painfully Stupid Snowmobile Accident
One Painfully Stupid Snowmobile Accident

28 Feb 2014, 10:56 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Just when I thought that mindless fellows like the ones in yesterday’s The World Is Not Enough were rather hard to come by, here’s another proof that in some cases, not even the surface ...

 
Why Wearing Good Riding Gear Is so Important
Why Wearing Good Riding Gear Is so Important

26 Feb 2014, 14:14 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Many riders ignore the importance of wearing proper gear in their outings, but sometimes things go way worse than these fellows expect. Some of them are lucky and make it with minor injuries and a l...

 
Suzuki Has a Cute Miniature Toyota FJ Cruiser
Suzuki Has a Cute Miniature Toyota FJ Cruiser

24 Feb 2014, 13:38 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Ain’t that cute? But it’s wrong! Come on Suzuki, can’t you come with your own design? You can’t just copy a design style of a competitor’s car just because it’s g...

 
2014 BMW R1200GS Adventure Promo Is Sickeningly Cheesy
2014 BMW R1200GS Adventure Promo Is Sickeningly Cheesy

20 Feb 2014, 10:39 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Some Beemer fans will definitely be mad at me for this piece, but that's life: no matter how much you love your R1200GS Adventure, you must admit that this promo is as cheesy as an ad for small...