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Hill Climbing

Mulholland Style

Mulholland videos must be the motorcycling equivalent to You've Been Framed. We've posted previous videos of this notorious road before but none featuring rock climbing to date. Perhaps more Dunlop stickers might have helped?

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Tags: oops

A tall boy's request

Reader letter: can you help?

This letter was sent into Visordown HQ. We thought we'd put it out to you: the knowledge-packed masses. So all you tall riders, lend this guy a (big) hand.

Dear Mr Webeditor

My name is Allan Barnard, and I have a dilemma. I'm 6'6" so of course, this severely limits ...  Continue reading

Know your alphabet

Motorcycle manufacturers from A to Zee

This chap has an extremely good memory. Either that or he squints when reading. Did he miss any manufacturers though?

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Tags: a, b, c, etc

Mickey Rourke's Roland Sands custom

Jamie Robinson rides Mickey Rourke's roaring new H-D custom

Mickey Rourke commissioned Roland Sands to make him this bad ass custom named 'Loki' from a plain-old Harley Sportster, and Jamie Robinson was the first person to ride this loud machine.

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Noisy Cow

Not something you see every day

We've featured a loud sidecar before but this really takes the biscuit (dipped in milk). At least he's wearing leather.

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Tags: moo

Lucky escape for Chinese scooter rider

Truck driver destroys scooter in collision

A scooter riding woman in China had a lucky escape after a truck narrowly avoided her when she jumped a red light. As the lorry demolishes her scooter, the woman miraculously gets up from the collision unscathed.

Despite the truck driver's quick reactions, both of them take equal responsibility for the incident ...  Continue reading

The Bourne Legacy motorcycle chase

Watch the motorcycle scene from the new film in the Bourne series

Motorcycle chases will play a big role in this year's two spy films, with James Bond riding a Honda and now a clip from the upcoming Bourne Legacy shows an action packed chase scene.

The Bourne Legacy will follow a similar premise with a rogue CIA agent being hunted down by ...  Continue reading

Helmet vs. No helmet: some figures

If you don't like pie-charts, look away now

The stats above were gathered in the state of Michigan, USA, where helmet laws have recently been relaxed . The study was carried out over a three-month period. In the first month, 80 percent of riders involved in crashes were wearing a helmet, in the last month this dropped to 68 ...  Continue reading

Racing in slow motion

"Racing is life, anything that happens before or after is just waiting"

Bikes get a poor showing in this self indulgent slow motion video. But for all the pit crews, gravel traps, and jumps, it's the footage of bikes at the TT that do it for me. The closing credits with Marco Simoncelli's 'ciao'are a nice touch as well.

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Tags: slow motion,

Little Girl

Chesca Miles features in the latest video from Spiritualized

I remember seeing Spiritualized play a gig in Brighton about ten years ago. As soon as the band came on stage, a massive smoke cloud rose from the audience that could have rivaled anything from a Cheech & Chong film. In fact, there was so much herbal jazz being smoked around ...  Continue reading

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