Sometimes We Need to Brake
11 Jul 2013, 15:47 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / "... and then, screw the rules and brake for your sake," this is how one of the riding lessons an older and more seasoned friend of mine used to teach me back in the day, while I was a gre...
Watch and Learn: Motorcycle vs Tractor Crash Test
11 Jul 2013, 14:42 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Spectacular as car crash tests may be, there is something really freaky about motorcycles tested in the same way. Watching such a crash test shows how incredibly exposed riders are. Some might find ...
Watch and Learn: Double Bike Crash in the Same Turn
9 Jul 2013, 11:47 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Hard and a bit weird crash for two riders, as they both make the same mistake and enter a blind turn way too fast. The two riders were most likely under the spell of the twisting road under the f...
Watch and Learn: Inappropriate Speed in a Turn Means Crashing Badly
8 Jul 2013, 13:39 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Small-displacement motorcycles are equally dangerous when mistakes are part of the game, and if there still are guys out there who believe that riding an 125cc bike can't lead to bad crashes, m...
Watch and Learn: Honda Gold Wing vs. BMW Violent Encounter
2 Jul 2013, 15:04 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Not everyone agrees that patience is a virtue, and we can live with that. But when riding a motorcycle and preparing to enter a road with visibility obstructed by a truck, being patient and observin...
Watch and Learn: Unaware Rider Crashes Silly in the Rain
28 Jun 2013, 09:41 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / They say that when riding a motorcycle, the operator must be several time for attentive than a driver inside a car. Traffic awareness and properly assessing the road conditions are key elements whic...
Look, Look, then Look Again
25 Jun 2013, 15:14 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The title belongs to a road safety campaign in the UK, stressing the need to take longer when checking the road at a junction, and this video shows exactly how right its creators were. The idea b...
Watch and Learn: Utterly Stupid Motorcycle Accident
24 Jun 2013, 14:04 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Riding a bike in busy traffic adds real spice to one's life, as the risks of crashing are significantly bigger than when riding alone. Adding in the equation the "awesome" way some...
Watch and Learn: Locking the Front Is Biting the Dust
20 Jun 2013, 12:50 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Braking hard in tight situations is the only thing a rider can do in order to avoid a collision. Even if if comes to the extreme solution of laying the bike down, it's either brake and stop/ sw...
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 ...
Watch and Learn: Zero Braking Skills for Silly Rider
30 May 2013, 14:30 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Now, that's a really shameful crash and in a way we feel sorry for the poor rider for seeing such a hilarious video making it on the web. However, we can hope this was a good lesson for our ...
Watch and Learn: Silly Hard Crash Riding an Aprilia RS75
27 May 2013, 15:04 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / This video is exceptionally educational, as it depicts just how bad things can go in just under a second, in case the other riders in the group don't know what the others are planning. There...
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...
Watch and Learn: British Bikers on the Wrong Side of the Road
22 May 2013, 15:29 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Here's a thrilling footage made by some British riders during one of their trips to Germany, showing just how easily and quickly can a nice ride transform into huge tragedy. Since we already...
Watch and Learn: Mindless Rider Crashes at 100 MPH
22 May 2013, 12:22 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Hi there, here's another painful Watch and Learn episode, with a rider mindlessly doing more than 100 mph, actually close to 109 mph (175 km/h) in what seems to be wet weather and who eventuall...
Speeding Biker Crashes Hard into Car Turning Left
20 May 2013, 15:58 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / This is a complete no-no, a bike crash which looks almost like the rider actually hunted down the car. First of all, it's obvious that he's speeding: we all do so in the city from time to ...
Cut All the Lanes, Crash All the Bikes
16 May 2013, 11:40 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Sorry to say this, but any rider with a decent amount of experience on the road should, or at least could foresee the way the stupid driver would cut through all the lanes. We know it's real...
Watch and Learn: High-Speed Bikes Chain Crash
14 May 2013, 14:50 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Common sense tells us that the higher the speed and the number of bikes in a group, the bigger should the distance between them be. That is, in case one is planning to make it home in one piece. ...
Watch and Learn: Nasty Highway Crash Because of Dead Bird
9 May 2013, 14:28 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / This is yet one more crash which could have been avoided rather easily, so we believe it could go very well with the Watch and Learn tag. Older, more experienced riders will tell you that the bes...
Watch and Learn: Bike vs Cow Is a Nasty Encounter
8 May 2013, 15:27 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / There are two things which are so wrong in this video. The first one, is bitterly obvious: a herd of cows roaming freely in the vicinity of a public road, with no trace of someone supervising the cr...