Trying Out a 3D-Scanner That Makes Helmets Custom-Molded to Your Head

Trying Out a 3D-Scanner That Makes Helmets Custom-Molded to Your Head

It’s not hard to find a badass-looking helmet for your adrenaline-fueled hobbies. The trick is finding one that fits correctly. For decades, that’s meant buying a standard (S/M/L) size lid and rearranging the padding to conform to your noggin. Recently, I got to try out a much better way.

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Beautiful Custom Motorbike Is Actually a 360º Security Camera

Beautiful Custom Motorbike Is Actually a 360º Security Camera

This gorgeous custom motorbike began its life as an utterly mundane Honda P25, a fuel-efficient 1960s scooter. But motorcycle artisan Chicara Nagata turned it into a sweeping sculpture with a social-commentary twist: the tiny bike carries four infrared security cameras in its frame, built at the behest of a Japanese security company.

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A $1,000 Motorcycle Helmet Precisely Customized for Your Noggin

A $1,000 Motorcycle Helmet Precisely Customized for Your Noggin

Bell’s new molding system creates made-to-order helmets for wannabe MotoGPers.

    



Watch how scary fast a motorcycle goes during a high speed race

Watch how scary fast a motorcycle goes during a high speed race

The world starts to blur. People and trees and houses and stores are just streaks of colors as you zoom by. The roads become vertical as you make your turns. You’re going so fast that, if you hit anything on the road, even a stick, you’re probably going to fly hundreds of feet in the air and smack yourself to pulp. This is what it’s like to race a motorcycle in the Isle of Man TT. It’s unreal how fast they go.

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This Electric Motorcycle Has Storage Space Instead of a Gas Tank

This Electric Motorcycle Has Storage Space Instead of a Gas Tank

Unless you’re on some giant Harley designed for a long cruise across the country, a backpack is probably the most storage room you’ve got on a motorcycle. But besides the savings on fuel, an electric motorcycle has other advantages, like a giant hole where the gas tank and engine used to be—which this bike, the Feddz, repurposes as built-in storage.

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Awesome dad built an even more awesome Batpod motorcycle for his kids

Awesome dad built an even more awesome Batpod motorcycle for his kids

There’s already a lot of responsibilities in being a parent. You gotta make sure your kids are fed. Make sure they bathe. Make sure they’re safe. And make sure they don’t become a menace to society. There’s only one requirement in becoming an awesome parent though and it’s this: build your kids an awesome Batpod motorcycle they can ride around.

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This Diesel-Powered Scooter Packs More Utility Than a Swiss Army Knife

This Diesel-Powered Scooter Packs More Utility Than a Swiss Army Knife

If I started telling you about a new all-wheel-drive, turbodiesel-powered off-roader, you’d probably think I was talking about a 4×4 truck or SUV, right? Wrong. Check out the RNT, a concept from Indian motorcycle company Hero that could be the only back-country survival tool a motorcycle adventurer would ever need.

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Honda Grom: City Commutes Should Always Be This Fun

Honda Grom: City Commutes Should Always Be This Fun

Pound for pound, there’s no bit of technology that made me happier last year than the brand new Honda Grom motorcycle. Is it cheating that it’s not strictly a gadget? I don’t care. Even if the Grom still breaks fast on old-fashioned dino juice, its diminutive size paired with 50-state street legality changed the way I think about city transit and my personal motive needs.

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World’s most powerful electric motorcycle looks like the future

World's most powerful electric motorcycle looks like the future

This brawny futuristic mini tank on two wheels is supposedly the world’s most powerful electric motorcycle. The battery-powered beast can re-charge its 12.8kWh juice pack in 30 minutes and has the power of a 1000cc motorcycle. Called the Voxan Wattman, the bike can hit 0-60mph in less than 3.4 seconds and reach a top speed of over 100mph. Vroom freaking vroom.

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You Can Actually Buy This Electric Flame-Throwing Batpod (Updated)

You Can Actually Buy This Electric Flame-Throwing Batpod (Updated)

This isn’t the motorcycle you need. It’s the motorcycle you deserve. You’ll be able to conquer Bane and the morning rush hour commute aboard this insane Harley V-Rod mod. And yes, those are dual flamethrowers and shotguns up front.

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