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Stolen Ducati 996SPS found in the recycling
By Visordown News on 07/09/2011 12:42:35
Ducati 996SPS recovered 12 years after being stolen from Australian Motorcycle News
A Ducati 996SPS stolen from Australian Motorcycle News has been recovered at a recycling tip in Melbourne - 12 years later.The 996SPS was used by then staffer Mark Fattore in a superbike test back in 1999, following the test the bike was stored
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Stolen motorcycles found in lake
By Visordown News on 28/02/2013 10:09:17
Motorcycles stolen back in 2005 found on lake bed
MORE than a dozen motorcycles have been found at the bottom of Lake austin in Texas, USA.Frames, engines and other parts have been discovered for over 15 different motorcycles. They were found by a diver who was diving under the Pennybacker bridge
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Motorcycle catches fire after hitting sheep
By Visordown News on 14/08/2012 10:44:52
Result: one ex-sheep and one ex-motorcycle
A SHEEP was killed and a motorcycle destroyed after a collision on the B6255 in North Yorkshire.Fire crews were called to the scene after reports that a motorcycle was on fire. A spokesman for the North Yorkshire fire service said: “When fire
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Man fined for taking his dog for a ride
By Visordown News on 11/11/2011 16:12:59
...dog not impressed
A NEW JERSEY man has pleaded guilty to an unsafe driving charge after riding to work with his dog on his motorcycle's tank.Gyula Szatmari, 56, was charged initially with transporting a dog in a cruel and inhumane manner as he was driving down a road
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Speeding motorcyclist catches hypothermia
By Visordown News on 11/04/2012 07:21:31
Australian man feels the warm arm of the law
in Victoria. The man was wearing skimpy clothing with no cold weather gear in sight when he was pulled over.His motorcycle has been impounded for 30 days.
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Chinese biker sets himself on fire over confiscated motorcycle
By Visordown News on 09/12/2010 18:14:40
Man remains in intensive care after being put out by Police
A MOTORCYCLIST IN China has remonstrated over local authority's confiscation of his motorcycle by setting himself on fire.The man, believed to be called Tan Ruinian, allegedly poured petrol over himself before setting himself on fire outside
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Police inform wrong family of motorcycle death
By Visordown News on 07/06/2012 09:06:31
A strange tale of karma
POLICE in Canada informed the wrong family of a death in a motorcycle accident.Paramedics and police were called to a single vehicle crash scene where they found a motorcycle rider had died. The police and a social worker went to the home
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Motorcyclist killed by flying mattress
By Visordown News on 29/06/2010 08:12:04
It's not how you'd want to go, but it happens
A BIKER has died in America after being hit by a mattress that fell from a pickup truck.73-year-old John Saddler of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was riding his motorcycle near Prairiesburg on Saturday afternoon when he was struck by a mattress that blew out
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Motorcycle stuck in tree after crash
By Visordown News on 15/06/2012 09:30:32
Buell left hanging in a tree after a crash in New Zealand
A CRASH in New Zealand resulted in a motorcycle left hanging in a tree.The accident saw the Buell catapulted from a ditch and fly across a driveway before coming to rest in the branches of a tree.Both police and ambulance arrived at the scene
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Eddie Kidd's wife charged with assault
By Visordown News on 21/12/2012 11:15:55
Samantha Kidd alleged to have beaten former stunt star
THE wife of the former motorcycle stunt jumper – who suffered terrible brain injuries in a crash at the Bulldog Bash 16 years ago – has been charged with beating him six times between July and December 2012.Samantha Kidd, a 44 year-old former Grange
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