This couple has done a video in which they present the three methods of starting a bike. Gas down, choke up, ignition key on and put it on “run”. Then use the clutch and make sure the bike is in neutral and bang. That's the first method. If you don't have enough strength, use the kickstand, get on the footpegs and use your body weight to start it. That is supposed to come naturally. But the next one if for the ones with a little bit of experience. Do the same things as before only that put the (...)

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After reading about how an Iranian student invented the tricycle that transforms into a motorcycle, here's a video in which students from the St. Thomas Academy Experimental Vehicle Team built an electric commuter motorcycle from scratch. Their hard work has paid off as they took the bike to MIT this summer and won a $10,000 grand from the Leleson-Mit InvenTeams to help fund the project. Nice way to start earning money, don't you think? We'll surely be seeing more and more such projects in (...)

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Seyyed Javad Ghaffarian lives in Iran and its wonderful ideas could one day bring you the safety of driving a tricycle on the highway and the versatility of riding a motorcycle in future city congestions. A student, Javad has created the “Magic Tricycle”, a machine designed to role down the highway on all its three wheels and then face the urban jungle as a motorcycle. How is that possible, you will wonder? Its left wheel can rotate around a longitudinal axis and be sustained on top of the (...)

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The fact that motorcycles and scooters are getting more popular thanks to enormous hikes in fuel prices is no surprise to anyone, least to gasoline companies. French oil company, Total, has taken note and has started looking towards these motorcycles as a real “market”. Total have recently opened a gas pump designed for motorcycles in the Paris suburbs (L'Isle Adam) . Cars aren't welcome (and will not fit), and the pump has all sorts of stuff designed for bikers. First of all, the pump itself (...)

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Anyone in the motorcycle world knows or has heard of, the 24 hours of Le Mans, both cars and motorcycles versions. The race was made even more legendary after Steve McQueen starred in the 1971 movie “Le Mans”. The motorcycle version of this race is as impressive as its car counter part. But did you know there's another, equally impressive, 24 hours motorcycle race in France. Organized since 1922, the “Bol D'Or” (translated means “Gold Bowl”) used to be a combined motorcycles and cars race, (...)

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Usually ski jets are designed to travel on the waves of our planet's sees and oceans. So imagine the immense possibilities we are offered by Mother Nature and still this guy is ski jetting in his hot tub. But I don't know why a small hunch tells me that is a vacation house and they did the thing just for fun and to broadcast it on Youtube. Pretty lame!

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After crashing its skull for six times, French designer Jérôme Coste took matters in its own hands. He submitted himself at creating the most interesting motorcycle helmets. Why interesting? The safety factor was a must (you wouldn't want our designer to crash and have yet another cranial fracture) and the shape propel them back in the 1970s, when these kind of helmets used to be made. Kind of funny as Jérôme Coste claims to have inspired by sci-fi movies, Japanese anime and a dash of Steve (...)

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Take a look at what policeman on motorcycles were capable of doing almost 60 years ago. At that time, bikes weren't that powerful or maneuverable so a one-man show was pretty hard to sustain. No problem, the Italians said and they trained entire motorcycle police divisions with incredible result. What is so great about this video is the perfect timing and the void of hesitation and if you're more of a “hit the throttle kind of guy” you'll be touched a lesson about patience. Great Italian (...)

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This guy has got it all wrong! Seeing stunts on the internet isn't supposed to determine you buy a Kawasaki ZZR600 and try doing the same. In the happiest situation (which is also the one displayed below) you'll simply fail and make a foul out of yourself. And the guy filming is a total disaster. He first goes to his friend, next to the bike and back to its friend. “Damn and shit” are apparently his favorite (...)

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Exposed at an international exhibition in Seattle, this gold plated chopper has raised more than a few eyebrows and the gold has nothing to do with that. The amazing part is the $500,000 price tag for which it can be yours. I sure know I can't have it (it's a the Naomi Campbell of motorcycles), but if you're an eccentric millionaire and plan on buying it, be sure to leave a comment to this post or even send us a few pics from the first ride on it. Good luck with that! Make sure you don't (...)

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The Segway was created to drive people faster at work and have them get fatter and fatter, so people doing this crash test considered a “sidewalk rush hour” situation in which a person moving on a Segway hits a walking individual. As you can imagine, it is more dangerous to get hit by a person running then by one rushing on such a transportation mean, but the mouths of those most suspicious of you had to be reduced to complete silence through the video attached (...)

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The trailer for Hell Ride Red Band catches the best of the movie with characters living in a world in which bikers ruled the open road with the throttle in one hand and the pistol in the other. There is no question why the film is expected to be such an amazing success as sex, violence and motorcycles have always attracted male masses, but when the name Quentin Tarantino is involved you simply know that this will be the next box office success. Starring Larry Bishop as Pistolero, the (...)

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In my opinion, there were kinds of motorcyclists: the ones that consciously swing the leg over the seat and think twice before opening the throttle (these being the ones that usually live happily ever after in the seats of their bikes) and the ones that can only think about hundreds of miles per hour and picking up chicks using their bikes (the young and inexperienced fellows). Now, I must say that my opinion has been changed by this guy named Sherman who, although very young, it has the (...)

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You know off the Tour de France, we've already written about this legendary bicycle race, from a motorcycle's point of view. But did you know there's a Tour de France for motorcycles? It's a motorcycle race through France, all very legal. Called Dark Dog Tour (formerly known as the Moto Tour), the race starts on Saturday the 27th of September at Reims and finishes on Sunday 5th of October at Toulon (South of France). The race is 3100 kilometers long, and has 17 special stages, usually on (...)

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Today, at Laguna Seca, home racer Colin Edwards will announce that he will sign its contract with Tech 3 Yamaha Team. How do we know that? Well, the last time I checked we were not predictors, but there has been done some negotiating last week at the rain-hit German GP at Sachsenring and the positive conclusions are to be announced today. Even though the Texan has a great evolution in this year's MotoGP Championship for Herve Poncharal's squad (two podiums and a pole position) it initially (...)

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