Category Archives: Motorcycles

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Takahisa Fujinami – Trials Motocross

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I never thought I’d see the day where I’m trying to figure what videos to post and I have footage of somebody whose skills are more impressive than Sebastien Loeb in a rally car, but that’s exactly what has happened. Meet Takahisa Fujinami, the first and only Japanese rider to win the Trials World Championship. This is sideline footage of him riding in the Japanese Grand Prix of the SPEA FIM trials championship in 2009. Some of the stuff he clears made my jaw drop and a most of it is terrain that I wouldn’t want to attempt on foot.


Sources: Zero Trial Club on YouTube and Fujigas.net Official Profile

Record Motorcycle Lap Around Nurburgring

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This is the on-board footage of Andy Carlile, a 33 year old Englishmen who lives in Germany, setting the record Bridge to Gantry Nurburgring lap time on a motorcycle. He’s not part of a massive factory backed effort or professional race team. He’s riding his personal street legal 2005 Yamaha R1. The bike is mostly stock outside of wheels, tires and shocks. His lap time? 7 minutes 10 seconds with a couple of seconds lost to traffic. To put that in perspective, a Dodge Viper ACR runs a 7:12, the Lexus LFA Nurburgring package runs a 7:14 and the Corvette ZR-1 runs a 7:19. Carlile thinks he could go faster, but not so fast that he could break the 6 minute mark.


Sources: BridgeToGantry.com via Asphalt and Rubber

Skicross vs. Motocross

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A French television show put together this little skier vs. motorcycle head to head battle down a slalom course in the Alps. It turns out to be a pretty good race as the skiers pick up speed near the bottom of the hill. Definitely brave to be skiing next to those studded tires.


Source: Alpe D’Huez TV on YouTube

Slider Pit Bike

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This pit bike mod is really an extension of Chris Harris’s Space Saver Experiment. The theory is that a car that is fast around a track isn’t necessarily fun. How fun a car is depends on its power to grip ratio. Basically it’s more fun if it’s easy to kick the back end out. These guys replaced the rear tire of their tiny pit bike with plastic tricycle wheels and round about drift madness ensues.

**NSFW WARNING** The Papa Roach soundtrack has a couple of bad words.


Source: YouTube user benaylen