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Rider Fails to Pay Attention, Brakes Hard and Spills
Rider Fails to Pay Attention, Brakes Hard and Spills

15 Jun 2013, 07:33 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / They say if a person is unable to pay attention to multiple variable in the environment at the same time, he or she is not going to be a good driver. Now, when it comes to riding a motorcycle, thing...

 
Russian Lady Crashes into Rider, Drives Away
Russian Lady Crashes into Rider, Drives Away

13 Jun 2013, 16:00 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / That's a nasty one, and we daresay the rider was pretty lucky to make it out of this crash with minor injuries. And it's the type of hit and run incident we see much too much of in Russia...

 
Neighborhood Wheelie Ends with Crash into Parked Car
Neighborhood Wheelie Ends with Crash into Parked Car

13 Jun 2013, 15:06 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / This rider is yet another lucky guy walking away from a hard crash, and in his case we'd have him writing on the asphalt 10 thousand times in colored chalk: "Wheelies in residential areas ...

 
EatSleepRide App Now Has Crash Detection
EatSleepRide App Now Has Crash Detection

13 Jun 2013, 13:47 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Motorcycle safety apps are becoming more and more common and sophisticated, and this is really good, especially as the number of vehicles on the roads is in constant growth. Here's one more pie...

 
This Funny Rider Can't Brake
This Funny Rider Can't Brake

12 Jun 2013, 15:15 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Shameful spill for a rider caught by one of the surveillance cameras of a store, as he throttles away, rides several meters then brakes like crazy. Due to the lower framerate of the surveillance ...

 
Reckless Scooter Rider Involved in Nasty Crash
Reckless Scooter Rider Involved in Nasty Crash

12 Jun 2013, 14:10 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / This nasty scooter crash is a bit bizarre, give the sudden drift of the two-wheeled machine to the left. There were no slower cars in front of the scooter to make us believe the rider wanted to over...

 
Honda and BMW Bikes Involved in Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Testing
Honda and BMW Bikes Involved in Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Testing

11 Jun 2013, 14:48 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The US Safety Pilot Model Deployment is a research program for traffic safety, and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) is a part of this endeavor. However, two major...

 
Lazy or Silly Rider Causes Fellow to Crash Really Bad
Lazy or Silly Rider Causes Fellow to Crash Really Bad

10 Jun 2013, 15:35 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Stupid or lazy, these are the two we here picked up to describe one of the riders in this video. Older, more experienced riders could surely tall countless similar stories with themselves or other g...

 
Sync Wheelie Turns to Sync Crashing
Sync Wheelie Turns to Sync Crashing

10 Jun 2013, 14:27 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / You all know the drill: wheelies in traffic are wrong and extremely dangerous, and many of them sometimes result in horrible injuries and even loss of human lives. Despite this, a lot of riders arou...

 
Mindless Speeding Rider Slams into a SUV
Mindless Speeding Rider Slams into a SUV

8 Jun 2013, 08:18 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Sad to see that some riders are so mindless to believe the city roads belong to them. And even sadder to see how they fail to slow down when luck runs out. Crashing in such predicaments are only nat...

 
Driver Doesn't Look Out for Rider,  Head-On  Crash Follows
Driver Doesn't Look Out for Rider, Head-On Crash Follows

7 Jun 2013, 13:38 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / We're ready to place high wagers that this driver's excuse was either SMIDSY (sorry mate, I didn't see you), or something related to the cosmic speed of the rider. While the second...

 
That's Why New Riders Should Wear Full-Face Helmets
That's Why New Riders Should Wear Full-Face Helmets

5 Jun 2013, 14:44 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / We know this was a really close call which could have ended very bad, but since it didn't, it's all down to a serious laughter. Really, some people believe that all the safety precautio...

 
2013 MotoGP: Alpinestars Surfaces Data on Marc Marquez' 340 KM/H Crash
2013 MotoGP: Alpinestars Surfaces Data on Marc Marquez' 340 KM/H Crash

4 Jun 2013, 14:04 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Alpinestars, the manufacturer of Marc Marquez' MotoGP leathers, has surfaced official telemetry recorded by the computer inside the rookie's suit, and the figures are quite amazing, as the...

 
Watch and Learn: Brake on Gravel Causes Lowside Crash
Watch and Learn: Brake on Gravel Causes Lowside Crash

3 Jun 2013, 14:55 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Here's another educational video which shows just how easy it is to come off the bike when encountering a patch of gravel and sand on the road... and the rider is aboard a sport bike. While ...

 
Stupid ATV Rider Causes Massive Crash
Stupid ATV Rider Causes Massive Crash

2 Jun 2013, 15:51 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Off-road riding with ones friends is a great way to have fun, but things can go wrong in a split second when someone is not paying enough attention. This video shows just how a nasty crash may ha...

 
Rider Makes Huge Mistake, Crashes into Bus
Rider Makes Huge Mistake, Crashes into Bus

26 May 2013, 11:33 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / They say everybody makes mistakes every now and we’re totally OK with that. However, when riding a motorcycle, mistakes should be one of the things with happen very, very rarely, if avoiding m...

 
This Almost Looks Like a Murder Attempt
This Almost Looks Like a Murder Attempt

26 May 2013, 08:48 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / At first we thought if the title of this short piece is not too hard, but really, it isn’t. It’s plain stupidity which, with the aid of a car driven on a public road, is turned into an e...

 
Bikers Crash the Same in Panama, Too
Bikers Crash the Same in Panama, Too

24 May 2013, 09:14 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / It looks like accidents caused by drivers stupid enough to ignore the basic safety regulations happen in pretty much the same way, including Panama. This video was recorded by a security camera, ...

 
Watch and Learn: Inexperienced Rider Fails to Anticipate Incoming Car
Watch and Learn: Inexperienced Rider Fails to Anticipate Incoming Car

23 May 2013, 15:39 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / This is a true textbook accident, and by all means, it's one of the crashes which can be easily avoided.. provided the riders know how to "read" the signs around them. Some less ex...

 
Incredibly Poor Riding Skills Or Substance Abuse?
Incredibly Poor Riding Skills Or Substance Abuse?

23 May 2013, 14:16 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Here's another weird video from the ex-Soviet space, showing us how a very normal situation can transform into a bike crash, for absolutely no apparent reason. We simply ruled out the brakin...