Pretty spooky video of motorcycle vs. car collision tests. You wouldn’t want to end up in a crash like these. A pretty good incentive to wear your protection gear; crash like this without it and you’re toast. A good time to emphasize the numero uno motorcycle rule of thumb: RIDE LIKE YOU’RE INVISIBLE, never ever just [...] Continue reading

Regular Helmet Hair reader, David, from Hamburg, sent me this great story on how he had a blast riding a Yamaha XT660R around Mallorca for a weekend. Last weekend I was in Mallorca as the person I was visiting had to work I decided to rent a bike. The shop, I think called Reus had a [...] Continue reading

Yes, I mean soccer, but here in Europe it’s called football. But this game is called motoball, and is football (soccer) played on motorcycles. Sounds pretty dangerous doesn’t it. Bob over at TheOffSide wrote an exellent post on the phenomenon, and as he mentions: “Each team has four motorcycle riding field players and one keeper who sadly [...] Continue reading

Simply too weird/funny not to mention. Apparently it’s from 1933 issue of Popular Science. Found it on Modern Mechanix. Pretty spooky ain’t it? “CYCLISTS’ MOLDED MASKS For races on cinder tracks, daredevil New York motorcyclists wear grotesque masks to protect their faces against flying particles from the wheels of each other’s machines. The racers dip the masks [...] Continue reading

Once in a while you come across stunt videos that are truly incredible, this is one of them. I think they’re like eight riders in that Cage of Doom at one point. It looks insane.  Continue reading

Do you remember the James Bond movie where Bond is stuffed down a capsule called “the pig” and blasted through the gas line from one country to another? The transportation by cabsule-through-tube concept has long been a Science Fiction darling, just look at Futurama for instance. Now a Swiss based company have brought us one [...] Continue reading

Behold as the good Mr. Copperfield makes a Harley Davidson Wide Glide vanish right before your eyes. The video must be from a Copperfield show in the late eighties, early nineties, because the bike is an Evo, today they’d probably use a Twincam. The amazing thing is not really the magic trick, which is basically [...] Continue reading

If you dive below the surface of motorcycle movies like Wild Hogs and Ghost Rider, there’s quite a few really good movies made on low budgets but with way more passion than the Hollywood blockbusters. The up coming movie Brittown is one of them. As the description say: “BRITTOWN - a motorcycle documentary featuring Meatball from [...] Continue reading

A pretty neatly done design study of the suzuki GSX-R750. A lot have changed since 1980, except the trademark blue and white color scheme.  Continue reading

Haven’t seen the movie yet, as it hasn’t opened in Denmark. But I’ve been following the incoming reviews closely. So far people seem to think it more or less sucks. But, since it brought in $38 million on the first weekend, apparently people want to see it anyways. Below is a list of the reviews [...] Continue reading

Here’s an on-board video of a guy filtering through some pretty dense traffic, with cars going all over the place. It’s clear that most of the cars don’t see him coming, which reminds me to be a little extra careful at the beginning of each riding season. Because of the weather here in Denmark most people [...] Continue reading

Some old school chopper nutters, and fellow country men of mine, just converted their old website into a blog. Not that it matters if it’s a blog or not, blogs just have a tendency to be more frequently updated, and there by more interesting. If you’re into kicking the life back into old iron, and [...] Continue reading

According to the kneeslider this weird looking contraption just won the title as America’s Most Beautiful Motorcycle at the Grand National Roadster Show. I don’t get that at all. It looks like somebody dropped a safe on the front forks. Of course beauty is in the mind of the beholder, but seriously folks, those judges need [...] Continue reading

What do you think of this print ad from Harley Davidson. Obviously it’s meant to be funny, but is it a little close to the border? I think it’s pretty good, but I didn’t really expect Harley to be that daring. Click image to enlarge. Via Hog Blog.  Continue reading