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TT 2017: Guy Martin OK after yesterday’s off during Superbike race
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Yesterday, Guy Martin came off at 120mph during the TT Superbike race at Doran’s Bend – and his Twitter feed suggests that the problem was mechanical, with the bike going into neutral on a downshift. ‘Guy crash today on the Superbike. Bit bruised but ok. 120mph on his arse. Bike went into neutral on downshift.’…
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MotoGP: Rossi declared fit to race this weekend at Mugello
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The on/off saga over Valentino Rossi’s continuing injuries ahead of this weekend’s MotoGP round at Mugello continues with the nine-time world champion now declared fit enough to take part in the event. Rossi has been in ‘severe’ pain following a motocross accident which left him with pain in his liver and kidneys. Rumours that he…
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Video: Bosch vehicle-to-vehicle communication system revealed
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Bosch Mobility Solutions has revealed its prototype vehicle-to-vehicle communication system – and the company reckon that its “digital protection shield” could prevent one-third of all motorcycle accidents. Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) is a relatively new technology that allows vehicles to communicate with each other. The technology could be extremely advantageous to motorcyclists, for whom visibility is often…
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Video: Laverty’s horrific World Superbike fireball smash at Imola
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In case you were out in the sun at the weekend instead of watching WSB, here’s something that happened that you might fancy a peak at – the fireball that engulfed Eugene Laverty’s Miwaukee Aprilia. Click on the image below to watch a video of the huge crash: https://youtu.be/zoWBR-NoqUA The crash happened on the second…
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Video: Police rider highsides out of Royal Cavalcade escort job in London
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https://youtu.be/USdUeTXAvZI Footage has emerged showing a police motorcyclist flung from his bike while escorting a member of the Royal family on Waterloo Bridge, London. The embarrassing incident happened on Monday while specialist officers from the Met Police escorted an unnamed member of the monarchy during a drive through London. The police rider is not believed…
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Video: Willy goes over a cliff (it’s more the story of his friends finding him though…)
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Check out this video of a motorcyclist crashing over a barrier and down a cliff. It’s not as horrific as you might think though and the footage is fascinating because you see it all from the perspective of a helmet cam. It’s kind of ‘Blair Witch’ meets that bit at the start of ‘Silver…
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Video: Tom Cruise crashing off (and riding around on) a couple of stunt BMW R nineT bikes in Paris for Mission Impossible 6
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Check out this couple of videos caught by Parisian film site StormShadowCrew whilst Tom Cruise has been filming a climactic motorcycle chase stunt for the upcoming Mission Impossible 6 film. There’s a bit of to-ing and fro-ing, a bit of filtering and then there’s the stunt where the bike gets taken out by a…
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Video: Estonian police don’t mess around – watch this as they ram a speeding biker and pillion off their bike… seriously…
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Holy Moly, here’s what the police report said: The rider was doing 124mph in places and had no motorcycle license. This happened last Friday night in Tallinn. Not quite like this in Norfolk on a speedy Saturday night, is it? What do you reckon, were the police in any way right to do this?…
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Tom Cruise rides (and crashes) a BMW R nineT Scrambler during Mission Impossible 6 filming
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Production has kicked off for the new Mission Impossible 6 film, and we’ve been sent these behind the scenes snaps of Tom Cruise (intentionally) crashing a BMW RnineT Scrambler during filming. Exclusive ‘automotive marketing’ partner for the last couple of films, it seems that BMW is back on board for the latest instalment of the long running…
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MotoGP: Suzuki’s Alex Rins has broken his ankle
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This just in from Suzuki, the factory is playing it down – but it’s a fracture in the ankle for the MotoGP rider… Team SUZUKI ECSTAR rider Alex Rins had a slight accident while training on Thursday with his Suzuki RM-Z motocross machine. Apparently without major incident, but with some pain in the right ankle,…
