19 Jan 2014, 14:03 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / I must admit I got a bit angry watching this video. It's this kind of nincompoops who keep on giving motorcycling a bad name, with their utter disregard for road laws and even own safety. As...
18 Jan 2014, 10:30 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / I had to watch this video twice to understand what's going on, and was not at all happy to see that this whole affair was caused by a driver who literally plowed into the scooter rider. Th...
15 Jan 2014, 16:35 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) informs that a recall for certain Arctic Cat snowmobiles has been issued. At least 264 2014 Arctic Cat 500 Sno Pro snowmobiles are affected by a inco...
14 Jan 2014, 13:52 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Here's the Halo Belt, a nifty safety-focused accessory which can make the difference between being crashed into by a SMIDSY-ist or making it home safely. The Halo Belt is a strip of electro...
13 Jan 2014, 17:20 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Birds can happen to fly in front of a motorcycle, and riders going down because of such unexpected encounters are quite a common thing, unfortunately. However, sometimes motorcyclists remain upri...
13 Jan 2014, 16:41 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / While most of the bike crashes tend to occur in rather tight situations, I have to admit that watching this video made me feel a bit uncomfortable. Seeing a guy on a CBR600F and unable to even r...
13 Jan 2014, 12:57 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / More than 1 year ago, we reported on the Kranium, the helmet made from cardboard, an invention which promised to change the way we secure our heads when riding a bicycle. The story did not end there...
10 Jan 2014, 11:50 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Riding on the highway can turn form fun to disaster quite quickly, especially as one fails to match the speed to the weather or traffic conditions. This Dutch fellow was extremely lucky to remain up...
10 Jan 2014, 09:30 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Australia has put up its own motorcycle helmet rating system called CRASH. Now, despite the not-exactly-encouraging name, CRASH stands for Consumer Rating and Assessment of Safety Helmets and repre...
9 Jan 2014, 17:06 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / This video is a textbook example of how important paying attention when driving is, and how big a difference good brakes and tires can make when the going gets tough. For the scooter rider, the f...
9 Jan 2014, 16:18 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Guys riding scooter fast, caught off-guard even they shouldn't have, crashing and acting stupidly because of zero first aid knowledge... sounds like some sort of movies scenario, doesn't i...
8 Jan 2014, 13:03 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The Russian fellows who invented the amazing Livemap fighter-like HUD motorcycle helmet ahve made it to CES this year and demoed the system in the CES Hardware Battlefield. A lot of things have c...
7 Jan 2014, 14:08 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / All people make mistakes, it's true, but some of them look especially clumsy and stupid while at it, and the driver in this video is one of these fellows. As far as I'm concerned, this ...
6 Jan 2014, 15:26 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Again, here we go with some mindless Asian riders causing crashes and suffering for innocent motorists. In fact, if I was to be a bit cynical, I'd say that this is the main downside of seein...
5 Jan 2014, 14:03 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The NHTSA issued recall number 13V608000, with 416 2013 Triumph Trophy SE motorcycles potentially affected by a center stand construction error. Triumph Motorcycles America Ltd (Triumph) says tha...
4 Jan 2014, 09:59 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / So here's proof that ninjas do exist and they are doing fairly well, give or take one scooter. Such accidents are also extremely common with distracted drivers and even riders failing to not...
3 Jan 2014, 16:50 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Here's a perfect example of how insufficient riding skills combined with target fixation can ruin the day. I used "ruin the day" because this rider was at least lucky enough to slow d...
3 Jan 2014, 16:04 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / This video may have very easily turned into a very gruesome display of splattered brains, should the scooter rider not have decided to wear a helmet that day. Luckily for him, the helmet saved hi...
3 Jan 2014, 13:33 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / I've stumbled upon a very cool 3D animation of one of the most common motorcycle accidents involving two vehicles, and thought to share Idea Werks Studios' piece of digital art. Such re...
31 Dec 2013, 13:28 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Dainese and Genertel, Grup Generali’s online insurance operator have renewed the terms of their collaboration. The customers who buy a Dainese motorcycle jacket with the D-Air airbag system ge...