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(Come on! Stick that lip in, wipe away those tears! It's too late to cry about it now.) Alas, poor Ridley Motorbikes , we barely knew ye, but looking back at them now I'd say they were one of the few modern motorized bicycles I could actually get excited about. Vintage looks, 70cc engines, certainly...

Really! I nearly had this happen to me once. Luckily there was about two feet of clearance at the end of the arm, so I just swerved around it. Don't let this happen to you!

("And here is where we install the explosive light bulb." Image source: Telegraph.co.uk ) At some time in our lives we've all thought about it, us people in the scooter industry. The idea starts with, "I bet I could design a GREAT scooter, have it built inexpensively in China, bring...

This is one of those common mistakes. Yer showin' off, smokin' a little rubber then *ERRRRT!* the bike goes flying off without you. I have to think he would have been better off making this mistake whist showing off for an unknown lady as opposed to all of his mates... with video cameras. Poor...

Scooter Showoff Owned by Pole - Watch more Funny Videos I can't figure out how he didn't see the huge pole, unless he just wasn't watching where he was going which is rule number two on scooters. Rule number one is wear your helmet you dummy.

Believe it or not, this is a mid-80s Honda Aero 50 scooter: It started out looking something like this:

We were down last night after some tinkering under the hood. After a solid 7 hours of sleep we had built up the mental fortitude to figure out that we have inadvertently left out a "/*" and broke everything. Well, the "/*" is back in place and tightened to 78 ft/lbs of torque, so...

Here's a frame from a 3D CT Scan rendering that says it all. Surfactant shares it in video from flicker and you can watch it by clicking the title link. Here's what Surfactant has to say about what we see here: This patient was not using a helmet.. Extensive facial and mandibular fractures are...

Today's Daily Sunshine reported that 14,277 confiscated "illegal motorcycles" were destroyed by bulldozers in Yungang district, Shenzhen as part of the city's "motorcycle ban". The Shenzhen-based newspaper says that in April this year another 9.532 illegal motorcycles were...

On Sunday, June 22nd, P-Town Scooters' mechanic Steve Sellers was admitted to a local hospital where things went from bad to worse. I never had the fortune of meeting Steve in person, but I've heard much about him and I do know he was one of the few to test drive the Sasquatch of the scooter...