Seriously Impressive Burnout

Looks like Quick_Silver has been having a real good time at "Suck Bang & Blow".

Yeah, we thought we'd maybe gone to the 'wrong' site (hate it when that happens...) for a minute but, apparently, this event takes place each year in South Carolina and is a Bike Week rather than anything else that those words might bring to mind.

So, if you're surrounded by fellow enthusiasts, why not deliver a seriously impressive burnout ? And between the smoke, the wind and the lights, it looks more Hollywood special effects than rear tire meltdown. Very cool indeed.

For a combination of Babes & Bikes check out this slideshow.

Transformers 2: Day 1

TheDarkKnight brings us some great behind-the-scenes footage from Transformers 2: Day 1

However, if you're expecting to see a ton of GM product, think again. Seems Day 1 belongs to the Audi R8 that's doing some stunts and dicing with a couple of rice rockets.

Director Michael Bay is on the bullhorn, barking orders and letting his large crew know that he's going to be on their asses every step of the way! If Transformers 1 is anything to go by, this movie's gonna be another car stunt extravaganza.

To remind you of some of the cars in Transformers 1, take a look at all the car stars of the first movie.


And here's just a heads up for you Transformer fans! Bumble bee and his friends have landed in Long Beach, CA for the up and coming sequel: Revenge of the Fallen. Slaughter22 has been kind enough to upload some quick pictures of the toys on set, one of which is the future Corvette Concept.

MotoGP Paddock Girls

Wave the checkered flag for JPGWRX for sharing this album with us.

We love MotoGP. The riders are insane, the bikes are stupidly fast but, most of all, the girls are HOT...and there are lots of them just wandering around looking, well, hot.

Whether they're holding an umbrella , chatting up a rider , or just standing around looking cute , they can do no wrong in our book.

Meet the MotoGP Paddock Girls

Forest Burnout

I guess we should thank XtremeFilms for this video...but we're just not quite sure what to make of it. One thing's for sure though, where there's smoke, there's fire.

Perhaps life in Finland is a bit different or, at least, what goes for entertainment. Are they actually going to burn down the forest or simply set fire to various rear tires?

We'll be honest, we're confused. But, evidently, the attendees of Bomber Weekend in Pieksänmaa, Finland, are not. Get together, smoke a bunch of...rubber and have a damn good time doing it.

We wouldn't trade places with the dude trying to hold the rear wheel in place if you paid us, and we also reckon the rider's calves are now medium rare, but damn that rear tire sure lights up like a Christmas tree!

For an automotive burnout (with near crash) check out the Ol Skool Shelby GT500 video.

Watch the Forest Burnout video.

Garage Wheelies and Slow Speed Stunting

Brought to you by Budproductions.

If you ride a motorcycle then you know it's easier to ride fast than slow, but doing wheelies in the garage? Crap man, that's pretty cool, about 1 minute and 20 secounds in, you get to see it.

View the stunt video video.

A motorcycle holding up a car around the Nurburgring

I love fast cars and fast bikes, and have first hand experience of how the two differ. Indeed bikes are better at some things, worse at others, so when you mix cars and bikes on the track, both tend to get frustrated with the other. Here is a great video from the Nurburgring in Germany that illustrates this more clearly than any I've seen before. The Car overtakes the bike in the corners, the bike overtakes the car on the straights. They both take separate lines causing one to lift when normally it would stay flat. Great Video! Thank you w00sher for the upload!

[Watch Motorcycle vs Car on the Nurburgring video]

New BMW HP2 Sport

BMW is just get sportier and sportier, here are some shots of the upcoming HP2 Sport, based on the R 1200 S. I'm digging it!

[Watch Video of the HP2 Sport]
[Second Video Detailed shots of the HP2 Sport]

Wee little Rossi

Give a man on a pocket bike, and he'll ride. Give two men, two bikes and they'll race. Give a bunch of kids pocket bikes and we'll all have fun watching. Funy vid, couldn't stop laughing about this one.

[Watch Pocket Bike Video]

Put a Jacket on Puh-Lease!

Here's a SQUID for ya, hopefully won't take a spill to get him to put some proper gear on. Love how the shirt flies up his back at speed too.. Anyhow, so this vid is a Kawi 636 getting clobbered by a built 300ZX. Just to point out before all your Car v. Bikers start flaming each other, the Kawi rider isn't tucked behind the screen, and 70-140 is a pretty weak zone for a middle weight bike. Regardless good kill to the Nissan.

[Watch Video Car vs. motorcycle]

263 KPH in a tractor

Gotta love speed cameras and clever advertising, yet another funny ad from overseas.

[Watch Speed Camera video]

Denim Brain Bucket

I love to check out the Two-Wheel news at HelemetHairBlog.com ...found this little gem that was just too funny not to share....yes it's a denim covered helmet....yes denim....I guess I have seen fur helmets too, so why not....though it does make you look like a butthead from behind.

[Nexx Denim Helmet] via [HelmetHairBlog.com]

R-Bike, a Shape Shifting Motorcycle

Now how is this for a cool idea? For our non-riders asking "why do this?", the angle of the front forks determines much of a motorcycle's personality. At a very high rake (like a your classic chopper) the front wheel always wants to point straight ahead, This gives you a calm, stable relaxing ride. On a hyper-maneuverable bike like a dirt bike, the forks are practically straight up and down, this gives you a twitchy fast reacting nimble machine. Sport Bikes are closer to the dirt bike side of rake, cruisers on the chopper side.... you get the idea.

Most riders I know dream of having two bikes, a long distance cruiser, and a sporty maneuverable mountain carver. The problem for most of us is that if you have a sport bike, you're typically worn out by the time you get to the good twisty roads, or if you have a cruiser, you're dragging your boards in the mountains.

So here is a very novel solution that accomplishes both goals in one package. Literally a shape-shifting motorcycle, just in time for the Transformer movie. :-)

[Video 1]
[Video 2]
[Video 3]
[Website for more Info]

Chrome Hayabusa from the frame-up

Good to see a company with a sense of humor about their own product. That said Busa-mods are all the rage now, and the local bike scene is swarming with 400+hp Hayabusas with extended swing arms and more money in them than anything you see on "American Chopper".

I'm more into the knee drag myself, but hats off to anyone that looks at a 9-second Hayabusa and thinks "great start, but can we make it faster?". Anyhow, this is a cool little video showing a Chrome-frame build up in stop motion. cool stuff!

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That settles it, I want an office

...just so we can be irresponsible and do stuff likes this. Seriously though, I can't tell you how much of a nerve this strikes with me... call it cube farm repression, but man this is cool. :-)

[Guy does an indoor burnout]

Pocketbikes ...I know you want one

...or at least I do. sure I have my big bad sportbike, but how much fun can you have with it in a parking lot?

Seams like they're spreading too. I keep seeing these things crop up at local tracks and car shows. At any rate, here is nice diversion. Thanks to 051020 for the upload!

[Video minibikes in a parking lot]

Electric Sport Bikes?

(via MotorBiker.org) At first this sounds like an odd idea, but the more I think about it the more sense it makes. Yes I love good ole Dinosaur burning sportbikes, but there are some intriguing benefits to this technology in a more mature form.

First, you could go for an in-hub motor freeing up tons of space for the rider to sit lower in the bike, similar to "The Alligator" which has proven a lower seating position has some huge handling gains. Second, one of the problems with electric cars has been replacing batteries, but in a bike, given access and size, not to mention typically lower mileage driven, batteries start to make more sense. Finally, the instant torque of an Electric motor would be just plain cool from the sadle of a sport bike.... talk about a wheelie machine!

Anyhow I think this puts us one step closer to the coolest sport bike ever... Kaneda's Bike from Akira
:-)

[ElectricMotorcycles.net]
[Mike's really cool Electric F3]
[Comment on this in the Forum]

French Motorcycle Cops, enthusiasts to the core

Saw this article over at Bikes in the Fast Lane, but it just goes to show how cool biker culture is. Seams French Motorcycle Police are being ordered to crack down on motorcycle speeding. But being enthusiast first, they've decided to just hand out warnings instead.

Hats off to the French police for understanding their job is public protection, not revenue collection.

When you look at deaths per mile of the United States vs other countries with higher speed limits, it becomes rather obvious that the "speed kills" axiom is BS. It's my opinion that limits are set artificially low in order to insure a nice stream of speeding fine revenue for local government. Toss in speed cameras, and government greed just goes overboard.

Personally I think artificially low speed limits cause more accidents than they prevent as it makes traffic flow at uneven rates. In an ideal world, I would love to see police given more power to exercise their own judgment on what is too fast for conditions and what is not, but without the pressure of quotas and speeding tickets. I don't blame the police for the current state of the union, instead I blame public officials for pressing a crime fighting force into tax collection, and sadly I think that creates an adversarial relationship here in the states between enthusiasts and police, but hey, that's just my opinion...

okay, rant off....
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Motorcycles and Traffic lights, the less Glamourous side of Riding

If you ride a street bike you know what I'm talking about. The annoying fact that your average sport bikes lacks the magnetic signature to trip traffic light sensors. Now I've heard that placing a strong magnet in the lower fairing helps, but that sounds a little like snake oil to me. The folks at Motorcycle Daily think so too and have asked readers to submit heir experience on how to fix this. My only solution has been waving cars up my exhaust so they trip the sensor....or riding in packs.... hardly a solution. If you have any input, check out the article and send your feedback, I would love to see a solution to this one.

PS here are solutions from "About.com"

1. Get off your bike and push the "walk" button if it is safe.
2. Sometimes you may just have to look both ways and run the light. In some places it's OK to "proceed with caution" after 15 minutes, in some places after 2 cycles. You need to know what the law is in your area.
3. If you fail to trigger the switch, wait at least one more cycle and then proceed when it is safe.
4. Sometimes it helps to kill the engine and restart it just to get the magnetic fields going over the tripping device. Put yourself right over the detector in the pavement. Give the bike a couple of good revs.
5. Turn right and then do a "U" turn when you can.
6. Threaten legal action. Start by calling the street department and complaining. Every week re-check the light. If you get no action, send them a nice professional letter threatening them with a lawsuit.
7. As you approach the intersection, there are lines cut into the pavement where the sensor was put in. The sensor pad is octagonal or square. Put the most metal over the intersection of two sides.
8. Another trick is to put out your kickstand. If you can get the kickstand out, there is more of a metal area to detect. Don't forget to retract your kickstand when the light finally changes.
9. Rig your bike with an electro-magnet under the frame. This is wired into the brake lamp circuit and induces enough of a field to trip most lights.
10. Consider the purchase of a device that will trip the light for you. Two such products are the Green Light Trigger and the Red Light Changer.
11. A new trend is the introduction of special motorcycle boxes that show you where to stop your bike to trip the light. The front-most "box" has additional diagonal lines, with a bike icon painted in the box.
12. Roll forwards and back in an effort to trip the sensors.
13. If you are waiting for a left-turn signal light to change, you can always proceed through the intersection on green and make three successive right-hand turns. This only works with regular city blocks.
14. Some states have sensors in the lights that can detect flashing lights of police cars and ambulances, and will quickly change the light. You might try flashing your lights to see if that will trip it.

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Fine... I'll admit it

I have the maturity of a 9 year old so when I see something like this I fall out of my chair laughing. Who's to say that a moped can't generate some power? Ok, I am. But still this is pretty funny.




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Stunt'n a 50

Who says small bikes aren't fun? I admit I've been a little hesitant to try an get crazy on my own CBR, but if I had one of these little bikes I would be stunt'n the hell out of it. These guys make it look easy.

[Watch Video Small Stunts]