Check out the six-foot snowdrift in the backgroundTHIS IS the Uno unveiled recently at the National Motorcycle Show in Toronto. The machine uses a couple of wheels mounted side-by-side like a Segway scooter, it does come with proper motorcycle-style footpegs and a tiny chassis...

Check out this cutting from The Milwaukee Journal, 1967. You can click the picture to make it open larger.As strange stories go, it's up there with the best of them. I love the language used in the story: I'm not sure you could get away with describing someone as being a 'shapely...

Bet it's a right bastard in a crosswind...THIS IS the nUCLEUS - an aerodynamic motorcycle designed and built by Branko Lukic.Lukic is founder and partner of NONOBJECT, California based design studio. The company's aim is to create new and surprising design experiences for wide s...

AN ITALIAN motorcycle rider has been charged with speeding at 383mph on an unfaired Moto Guzzi.Paolo Turina, 26, is appealing against the charge, claiming the speed camera must have been defective. He is also disputing the £200 fine Police have issued the not-so-speedy Italian."I...

RUSSIA, a country not known for its harsh enforcement of drink-driving, produced another weird story this weekend.Five friends, who had all been out drinking, attempted to ride home on their Ural motorcycle on Saturday morning, around 4am. Unfortunately, they failed to make it ar...

AMAZINGLY a motorcyclist survived being knocked out after hitting a pigeon at 50mph, which caused him to accelerate to 140mph whilst unconscious.Matthew Brealy, 38, collapsed on his Suzuki GSX-R1000 after the low-flying pigeon smashed through his helmet visor, leaving him unconsc...

UNDER NEW emissions-based rates of road tax announced last week in theBudget, vehicles that produce less than 100g of CO2 per/km will pay nothing– unless they are motorcycles. Despite emitting less than 100g per/km, manymotorcycles will next year pay double according to the Envir...

EUROPEAN motorcycles are set to double in price in the USA if a proposed import duty goes ahead. The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) is in uproar over the proposed tariff and has written to the Office of the U.S. trade Representative to oppose a plan.The tax would place a...

A RECENT SURVEY in America has found a substantial increase in the number of serious head injuries caused by accidents while riding a hi-tech Segway scooter.The report, compiled by George Washington Hospital in Washington DC, comes just 48 hours after the death of Segway boss Jim...

AN AMERICAN fund-raiser running in a charity event dressed as a sausage has been knocked down by a Police motorcyclist. Kevin Carboni, 51, was taking part in the Opening Day Klement’s Racing Sausages relay when he was struck by the officer's motorcycle, after leaving the road to ...