Posts Tagged ‘motorbike’
Fans of Will Ferrel might appreciate this 1999 commercial for the first-generation Mercedes-Benz C-Class. Everyone else will likely find it strangely disturbing, as iconic lounge singer Robert Goulet, who unfortunately passed away last October, follows around a young driver as she makes her way thr......
First Ducati Desmosedici RR in America goes to Tom Cruise
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Put on any random Tom Cruise movie and you're likely to see him riding a motorbike... without a helmet, of course, as that would ruin our view of his pretty face. But the Hollywood superstar is evidently an avid motorcycle rider, and has sunk a small portion of his enormous earnings into one of the ......
Australia’s monster motorbike from hell
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Proving once again that it is always easier to tear things apart than it is to build them is the Australian monster, as seen above. The builder, Ray Baumann, says that "this is a way of taking a bit more care," if you can believe that. You see, his previous job was as a stunt driver. He claims that......
German tank bike tops all others
Friday, September 14th, 2007
I ask you, who says the Germans don't have a sense of humor? All right, so it can be an arcane, mystifying sense of humor, but it's there, and that's the point. Tilo Niebel and his gents at the Harzer Bike company in Germany, upon finding they had a tank engine to play with, decided that of all the ......
KTM builds plant exclusively for X-Bow
Friday, July 20th, 2007
The X-Bow is a light weight roadster offering the kind of performance you'd get from a supercar for a fraction of the price. Little surprise then that demand for the new roadster has forced its manufacturer, Austrian motorbike specialist KTM, to build a new factory specifically to supply enough X-Bo......
VIDEO: Goodwood - The motorbikes
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
Click above for motorbike gallery from GoodwoodThe video camera we had with us at Goodwood was put to good use. This clip shows a few of the motorbikes that made runs up the hill. Straight-long wheelies and a vintage Norton are then followed by some acrobatics. Chris Pfeiffer amazed everyone with h......
Prancing Steel Horse: custom Scuderia Ferrari chopper
Sunday, December 24th, 2006
There are a lot of superlatives that could be equally applied to Ferraris and to custom choppers by their respective enthusiasts, and we're not going to try to name them all. But that's probably why there have been so many efforts to blend the two, with varied results.One builder of custom choppers ......
VIDEO: Porsche vs. Bike vs. Jet
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
So very pointless, but so much fun!If you thought the race between the Porsche, the Champ Car and the Mini was a strange match, you've got to check out this video showing a race between a Porsche, a motorbike and a jet fighter. The race takes place on a runway in Serbia, of all places.The bike star......
Scotland puts speed camera movement on two wheels
Thursday, May 4th, 2006
Scotland's motorists had better keep their eyes peeled for a certain 'brightly marked' Honda 650 Deauville motorcycle. Those passing through Edinburgh at extralegal speeds had better beware, because local authorities have just outfitted a speed camera to the aforementioned motorbike, and it works in......
Motorcycle headcase #2: guy stuffs Ferrari engines into two custom bikes
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
Here's yet another case of infusing a two-wheeler with a passenger-car mill; in this case, the donor happens to be a Ferrari, and there's actually two project bikes. "Dino", pictured above, is powered by a V12 of undisclosed origin, while "Andreas" is motivated by a V8 swiped from a 308. They've bee......