The constant threat of narco-terrorism has everyone in Mexico on edge, which might explain why a pair of motorcycles backfiring sent crowds scattering in San Luis Potosi, Mexico this weekend. It's also why authorities in the town are charging the motorcyclists with terrorism.
Bench Pressing While Popping A Wheelie On A Motorcycle Is Fake, But…
This video captures the Internet's entrepreneurial spirit in one single minute. Have an impossible skill you can do? Like um, being able to bench press in unique situations? Like um, while popping a wheelie on your motorcycle? YOU CAN BE FAMOUS.
Man Who Lost 1.5 Inches Of Penis In Crash Gains $7.5 Million
A South Carolina man (not pictured) has been awarded $7.5 million in damages after a motorcycle accident causes his penis to be shortened by 1.5 inches. Since the crash, 27-year old Matthew Wall has both divorced and retired from The Navy.
Motorcycles do work in the rain after all
The most common question you get asked when people find out you ride? Well, after, "Isn't it dangerous?!" anyways. "What do you do when it rains?" You get wet. And you keep riding. As demonstrated to great effect here by master of all things slippery, World Superbike great Ryuichi Kiyonari.
Watch a motorcycle ride across a 384-foot arch
In a moral victory for everyone that's ever seen something and immediately wondered what it'd be like to ride a motorcycle over that something, South African Trials star Brian Capper just got a chance to ride his bike over the 384-foot-tall arch supporting Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium.
Go behind the scenes with the family that rides "The Wall of Death"
If the prospect of riding a motorcycle didn't seem dangerous enough already, imagine doing it completely sideways on something called "The Wall of Death".
Who wouldn't want a twin-engine jet-powered Harley?
It's like the Sons of Anarchy and Evel Knievel conceived a kinky lovechild while jumping over the Grand Canyon aboard rocket sleds.
Harley-Davidson recalls 300,000 motorcycles
Harley-Davidson, already enduring its worst market conditions in decades, now has another problem to contend with: It has announced a recall of over 300,000 motorcycles because heat from the exhaust system may cook the rear brake-light switch, killing the brake light, and possibly leading to fluid leakage and rear…
Watch a band-hauling motorcycle give new meaning to drum rolls
It's really too bad The White Stripes broke up before this Moscow motorcycle enthusiast had his brainstorm of a three-man band cycle, because Jack and Meg would have looked kinda bitchin' playing "Hotel Yorba" at freeway speeds.
Bikers overwhelm local cops with highway stunt show
Hundreds of Missouri motorcycle stunt riders took to the freeways of St. Louis late last week for an event they called the "Ride of the Century." For at least one member, the event produced the photo of the century. UPDATED
The closest call between a motorcycle and an SUV you'll ever see
Talk about a pucker-implosion moment. Feature writer Loz Blain recorded this terrifying footage documenting a split-second, near run-in with an SUV as it was encroaching into his lane. If you stop tape at 0:12, you can see how Blain's elbow almost paid the ultimate price.
This is what setting a land speed record on the world's fastest…
Good. Lord. 218MPH is fast, like super fast, like suck-the-teeth-out-the-back-of-your-head super fast. And that's world-record setting speed the Lightning Motorcycle SuperBike just pulled off at the Bonneville Salt Flats last week. Why should you care? Because you can now own one.
This is what 311mph looks like from the nose of a 1000 horsepower…
Bill Warner's 311 MPH run on his 1000 horsepower turbocharged Suzuki Hayabusa may not be an official record, but that doesn't make this video footage any less amazing.
Moto Guzzi’s incredible shrinking 0.5-liter V8
Thanks to the wonderful efforts of the Moto Guzzi racing team, mankind will be able to survive a powerful hit by an alien shrinking ray with our V8-powered sports cars intact. For we have The Otto, this frantic little 30½ cubic inch jewel which powered Moto Guzzi’s Grand Prix racing motorcycles from 1955 to 1957 all …
The strangest racing crash you'll ever see
BMW's Swedish-named, Italian motocross division's new street bike
BMW's Italy-based enduro and motocross bike builder Husqvarna dates back to a 17th century Swedish musket maker, but it's no longer sweating the Treaty of Nijmegen. It's working on a new, avant-garde streetfighter that might give Ducati a workout.
"Cafe Cowboy" is a unique look inside the world of custom vintage…
Benedict Campbell decided to make this well shot film profiling custom motorcycle builder Dustin Kott after meeting Kott at a Harley-Davidson photo shoot in LA. Campbell, a British filmmaker and photographer, was drawn to Kott because he was a "classic American" who rebuilds Honda motorcycles from the 70s in the style …
World's luckiest motorcyclist escapes three-car tunnel accident
Sometimes, when it seems all is lost, the fates have other plans for you. This motorcyclist in Brazil should have that tattooed between his shoulder blades in calligraphy for miraculously sneaking past a ridiculous three-car accident. In a tunnel, no less.
Watch a pro street motorcycle rider get thrown from his bike at high…
Motorcycle drag racing is pretty insane to begin with, but trying to break into the very low seven second range on a pro street nitrous equipped Hayabusa without a wheelie bar is taking it to a new level. That is exactly what motorcycle racer Doug Witt was attempting to do when the crash you see here occurred.…
Chilling video shows motorcyclist crushed between cars
Getting rear-ended is usually a minor annoyance in a car, but on a motorcycle it's a worst-case scenario. Still, it could have ended much worse for this Texas man nearly crushed between two cars on a Dallas freeway. Amazingly, he survived.
