Filed under: Etc. , Videos , Motorcycle , Off-Road It takes guts to ride a motocross bike . Tuned practically to the point of blowing themselves to bits, every pound stripped away so that only the bare necessities are left and sitting on top of a foot-plus of suspension travel, it takes a deft hand to tame these race machines. Which makes the feat you’ll see in the video after the break all the more amazing.
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Video: Watch as a motorcycle rides on top of the world
Filed under: Classics , Auctions , Etc. , Motorcycle Bonhams wrapped up an impressive motorcycle auction in Las Vegas , and some very pricey metal rolled across the block. While seriously expensive bikes like the 1955 Vincent Black Prince pictured above and a 1915 Harley-Davidson 11-F Twin failed to bring home enough cash to find new owners, the 1953 Vincent Black Shadow to the right brought home well north of its early bid estimates. A new owner laid down a hefty $122,500 for the pleasure of ownership
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Bonhams Las Vegas Motorcycle Sale sees big numbers for vintage bikes
Filed under: Motorsports , Coupe , Performance , Etc. , Marketing/Advertising , Ford , Motorcycle We all know sideways is slow. Kicking the tail out and sending the rear tires blazing may take a heaping helping of skill, but it won’t win you any races. That doesn’t make it any less awesome, however
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Video: Motorcycle vs. Car Drift Battle 2 debuts, someone called the cops
Filed under: Motorsports , Videos , Motorcycle , Celebrities , Off-Road Following up on the two-wheeled slow-motion theme in 2012, Red Bull is highlighting two-time motocross champion James Stewart and his factory Yamaha race bike. We’ve already seen a couple of Honda-mounted MotoGP riders at 1,000 frames per second, so it only seems appropriate to see what super slow motion looks like on the dirt. Bubba makes it look easy when viewed frame-by-frame at these speeds, but, as anyone who’s ever thrown a leg over a motocross bike’s saddle some 40-inches above the ground will tell you, there’s nothing easy about it.
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Video: James Stewart and Red Bull hit the Motocross track in slow-mo
Filed under: Motorsports , Performance , Motorcycle , Specialty , Racing Richard Brown is our kind of guy. Back in 1999, he set the one-way record for the top speed on a motorcycle at 362 mph, and he’s spent the years since working on a sub-orbital rocket and a gas turbine jet pack. Surprisingly enough, those two projects haven’t been enough to occupy Brown’s time, and he’s now turned his attentions back toward the motorcycle land speed record . Now the mad scientist aims to stroll past 450 mph on a jet-powered bike.
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Jet-powered motorcycle headed for land speed record
Filed under: Classics , Videos , Opel One hundred and fifty years. That’s a mighty long time for any company to have been around, much less an automaker. Particularly since the automobile has only been around for 125 years or so. But while Opel , which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, is known primarily as an automaker, cars are only part of its long business history.
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Official: Opel reaches milestone 150th anniversary [w/video]