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High Speed Motorbike Cops Car Chase. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6AaBcHlbuI&feature=player_embeddedGuy The rider of this sportbike came equipped with front- and rear-facing video cameras. Sport bikes are involved in some of the most dangerous chases because of higher speeds and the fact that riders can split lanes on the highway in order to get away. In fact, the majority of subjects in police chases who "get away" are riding a bike as opposed to driving a car.

Dani Pedrosa rode serenely at a dramatic MotoGP race in Motegi, Japan to seal a win for home manufacturer Honda. Jorge Lorenzo finished second and Casey Stoner a distant third following a mistake in the early stages. Stoner's gap now stands at 40 points over Yamaha's Lorenzo.

GHAZNI, Afghanistan, June 7, 2010 – When soldiers with the Vermont Army National Guard's 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain) arrived here at Forward Operating Base Vulcan, they didn’t know what they would find. Spc. Skyler W. Genest, a military policeman with the Vermont Army National Guard, takes his project bike for a ride in Ghazni, Afghanistan, April 13, 2010. Army photo by Sgt. John Young  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Spc. Skyler W. Genest and his colleagues discovered a disassembled early-1970s motorcycle, which Genest found to be just the type of challenge he needed to help pass the...

PONTIAC, Mich., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Authorities in Michigan said a man was hospitalized with second-degree burns when his homemade sledding rocket pack exploded. The Oakland County Sheriff's Office said the 62-year-old Independence Township man constructed a backpack from a motorcycle muffler filled with gasoline and gunpowder and put on a motorcycle helmet before sledding down his back yard hill with the fuse lit, the Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday. "At some point during the ride, the device exploded," Undersheriff Mike McCabe told The Detroit News. "Apparently, he has this sledding party every year, and he always does outrageous things...

A motorcyclist was killed Monday in a collision with a motor home on Highway 101’s Conejo Grade after he slowed rapidly in front of the recreational vehicle in an apparent road-rage incident, authorities said. The motorcyclist, a 57-year-old Ventura man, was killed about 12:22 p.m. on southbound Highway 101 near Camarillo Springs Road when he collided with a roughly 30-foot motor home driven by Michael Antoine, 68, of Thousand Oaks, said Officer Terry Uhrich of the California Highway Patrol’s Moorpark office. The motorcyclist and Antoine were both traveling about 55 mph when the collision occurred in the right lane, authorities...

The Thai military on Thursday destroyed a suspicious motorcycle left unattended near the venue of a high-level Asia security meeting after security personnel suspected that explosives were loaded in the vehicle. After destroying the motorbike with high-pressured water cannon, security officials found no explosives in the motorbike, Thai Army Lt. Gen. Khanit Saphithak said. Khanit said the motorbike was left unattended for an hour in the prohibited area near the compound of Laguna Holiday Club, where delegates from North Korea and Laos are staying, and 300 meters away from the main entrance of the Sheraton Grande Laguna, where foreign ministers...

A naked motorcyclist is on the loose in southern Sweden. Police in Höör were informed at lunchtime on Friday that a man had been spotted riding naked by Nya Torget in the town. But by the time a police patrol arrived at the central square, however, the mystery biker had vanished. "We put it out on the police radio but none of our patrols have seen him yet," police spokesman Lars Mahler told The Local. There are no indications as to whether the man was properly protected.

Environmentally Friendly, Whisper-Quiet Fuel Cell Motorbike Available to Consumers as Early as 2006 LOS ANGELES, June 14 -- Intelligent Energy, a British energy-solutions company that is relocating to Los Angeles, today unveiled the world's first purpose-built fuel cell motorbike, ENV (Emissions Neutral Vehicle), at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Calif. This sleek-looking, hydrogen-powered motorbike is the first designed specifically with fuel cell technology in mind. The result is an innovative motorbike that emits only water vapors, making it an almost silent and completely nonpolluting vehicle. ENV, pronounced "envy," was engineered and purpose-built from the ground up, utilizing Intelligent...

A motorbiking vicar has complained about being held up by police who stopped him with a coffin in his sidecar which he was taking to a funeral. The Rev Paul Sinclair was taking the body of a dead biker to a crematorium in Yeovil, Somerset, in his motorbike hearse when police flagged him down for not wearing a crash helmet. Mr Sinclair, 37, said he explained that the hearse was taxed as the equivalent of a car, meaning he did not have to wear a crash helmet. But the officers held him up for a further 10 minutes and took...