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Motorbike Racers Crash Into Each Other, Pull Over, Start Punching Each Other<em></em>This unintentional piece of slapstick comes from last month’s Costa Rica National Motorbike Championships. Riders Jorge Martinez and Marion Calvo were jockeying for position during the race when Martinez lost control of his bike. Somehow, he ended up joining Calvo, who pulled over and was just as in...

MotoGP Rider Feeling "Almost Like New" After Horror Faceplant CrashMoto2 qualifying for tomorrow’s Dutch Grand Prix came to a halt today as Italian rider Lorenzo Baldassarri launched his bike, and himself, high into the air in a crash that left this viewer assuming he must be completely broken. Baldassarri later tweeted from the hospital that he’s “almost like new”...

Pro Cyclist Reportedly In Coma After Getting Run Over By Motorcycle During Race AgainAll season long, professional cyclists have been run getting over by motorcycles during races. 25-year-old Belgian Antoine Demoitié died after getting run over during Gent Wevelgem, a stalled out motorbike caused a harrowing pile-up in Brooklyn last month, and Stig Broeckx was hospitalized after a m...

Medical Motorcycle Takes Out Professional Cyclist During Race

During today’s Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, Lotto-Soudal’s Stig Broeckx was drifting off to the right of the peloton, presumably to go back to his team car, when a medical motorbike tried to shoot the gap, but only ended up skidding Broeckx to the deck....

Supercross Racers Get In A Fight Right In The Middle Of A Race

Motorcycles and dudes were swirling all around these two supercross men, but that didn’t stop them (well really one of them) from catching some hands. When you’re steady cutting off your competitor, that’s what you get, man....

How To Get A Cheap Motorcycle And Not Crash It

The problem is, most things are Good in inverse proportion to the degree to which they’re Fun. Broccoli is Good; Bacon is Fun. Taxes are Good; Casinos are Fun. Gyms are Good; Bars are Fun. You get the picture. But assuming, as I do, that all of us must live at least a little, few things are less Goo...

MotoGP Racer Completes Miracle Save By Crossing Finish Line Sidesaddle

Yesterday’s Moto3 Dutch Grand Prix featured an unreal save by rider Niklas Ajo, as the Finn kept his KTM upright despite being tossed wildly off the track—and then crossed the finish line without actually being on the bike. This seems physically impossible:...

Motorcycle Bro Loses Control Of Bike, Wheelies It Into Pool

Not being a gearhead myself, I don't really see the appeal of a pool party where motorcycles are close enough to the pool that this could even happen, but that's just me; I'm not a dude who typically likes to get radical. Just give me a drink and some tunes—loud enough to hear, but not loud enough t...