Crash
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Pizza wheelie crasher kid gets the sack AND police could prosecute for scooter slip
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Pizza wheelie crasher kid gets the sack AND police could prosecute for scooter slip. Last month we brought you the video footage of a Domino’s pizza delivery scooter rider losing control of a wheelie and dumping both bike and food in the middle of a Clapham street. Well now, four weeks after the footage was…
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MotoGP: Pedrosa fractures collarbone in crash during FP2
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Dani Pedrosa looks to be out of this weekend’s Japanese MotoGP round at Motegi, Japan after suffering a fracture to his right collarbone. The Spaniard suffered an horrendous crash in Free Practice 2 at the event and the injury has now been confirmed by the Repsol team.
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Ouch! When a wheelie goes so, so wrong. On a BMW launch. In front of a photographer. Who gets a BRILLIANT sequence of shots.
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Ouch! When a wheelie goes so, so wrong. On a BMW launch. In front of a photographer. Who gets a BRILLIANT sequence of shots. Ooooh, yah bugger! Check out this sequence from the US launch of the BMW RnineT Scrambler of a wheelie going ever-so-much off the straight and narrow with some serious metal breakage…
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M20 bridge collapse biker: “My first thought was for my crushed MT-07!”
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The biker who was injured when a pedestrian bridge collapsed on to the M20 last Saturday has admitted that in the immediate aftermath of the devastation his first thoughts were for his crushed Yamaha MT-07. Jim Shaw, 73, of Thamesmead, South East London, suffered five broken ribs when the footbridge near Maidstone was hit by a…
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Bradley Smith crash: UPDATE – NO broken bones CONFIRMED
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PHEW! it looks as though reports of a broken femur for Bradley Smith during a crash in Free Practice for the Oscherlseben 8 Hour race were premature and the rider has just confirmed that he has NOT broken a bone – it’s a cut leg and then injuries will be further assessed. This tweet update…
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MotoGP: Dovizioso twists knee in fall during testing
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Ducati Team’s Andrea Dovizioso and Andrea Iannone were back to work yesterday as the factory squad put in a day of private testing at Misano circuit. Not taking part in the official post-Brno test, the team instead focused on some preparations for the upcoming Misano round of the championship on September 11. Both Dovizioso and…
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Video: HORROR moment Roland Sands ploughs into crowd on his custom Indian bike at Sturgis Rally – injures four
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Video: Roland Sands ploughs into crowd on his custom Indian bike at Sturgis Rally – injures four. Motorbike trend merchant Roland Sands has reportedly crashed a new Indian custom bike off a Sturgis Rally stage and injured several members of the watching crowd. Here’s the video, taken by someone in the crowd at the event…
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Lowes crashes out of WSB again
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After a top 5 result in Race 1 for Alex Lowes, the Brit once again showed some great pace at Laguna Seca in Race 2, before attempting a move down the inside at the final corner that resulted in a lowside that affected teammate Niccolo Canepa. Canepa subsenquently crossed the line in P8, as Lowes…
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How effective is a motorcycle airbag… would you wear one?
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Alpinestars has released footage of a crash-test featuring a dummy wearing one its motorcycle airbags. Piloting a BMW R1200GS, the ‘rider’ hits the car at 30mph. Incredibly, the airbag inflates before the unfortunate biker makes contact with the Mercedes saloon. The new Tech-Air jacket is the first self-contained airbag system, which doesn’t need attaching – mechanically…
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Calls to help prosecute foreign drivers involved in motorcycle crashes
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Brake, the road safety charity, has joined a coalition of organisations calling for the UK government to support a proposal to help police catch risky, law-breaking drivers from other countries. The European Commission proposal, published today and backed by TISPOL, the European Traffic Police Network, would allow police across the EU to pursue traffic offences against drivers of…
