The BMW stunt riders were a huge hit at the World Superbike Races in Tooele, UT. The once stodgy, tradition-bound company is making huge strides in appealing to a younger market. The stunt team is a big part of that new marketing focus. The BMW stunt team put on a technically amazing, humorous, and interactive [...]
It may not seem like it sometimes, but motorcycles don’t want to fall over. If they’re going fast enough, they have a natural tendency to stay up. But why? Researchers have been trying to figure out the answer to that question since the 19th century. They’ve come up with a few answers too. The accepted [...]
Chris Pfeiffer has already shown us the wheelie and the stoppiee, and now he’s going to teach us how to surf. Pfeiffer, a four-time world motorcycle stunting champion, has been working with BMW on a series of short instructional videos based on his favorite tricks. Here is the third part of the series: How to [...]
Doing a wheelie is cool. Doing a stoppie is impressive. Doing them on a Harley-Davidson is just insane. 1 Wheel Revolution, a V-Twin entertainment company, doesn’t see the limitations of their big motorcycles, they see the possibilities. “We do all the things that you would typically see at a normal stunt show,” said Rob Carpenter, [...]
Four time stunt riding champion Chris Pfeiffer is back for part two of BMW’s stunting school. This time Pfeiffer gives a brief lesson on how to do a stoppie. “It’s really important to get to a good riding spot with a grippy surface,” Pfeiffer said. “Arrive in first gear, hit the clutch, lift your back [...]
If you want to learn to do a wheelie on a motorcycle, there is no better person to turn to than Chris Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer is a 4-time World Stunt Riding Champion, a 4-time European Stunt Riding Champion, and he won Stuntwars in 2006. Needless to say, Pfeiffer knows how to do a few tricks on [...]
The 2011 XDL series, the sportbike freestyle competition, kicked off in Daytona Florida during the 70th annual Daytona Bike Week. Nick Apex won the event, and was joined on the podium by Bill Dixon and Luke “Duke” Emmons. The XDL in Daytona featured the first round of the FMF Cup, but it also had various [...]
There are plenty of reasons to head down to Daytona bike week this year. AMA racing, poker runs, motorcycle shows, concerts, and of course, beautiful women and beer. But Daytona will also host the start of the 2011 XDL Championship series. The Daytona event of the XDL will be unique because for the first time [...]
Videos showing motorcycle stunters are so prolific on the Internet that I have become almost numb to them. However, the folks at Shift Racing sent AllAboutBikes a video of a stunt rider that is pretty dang amazing. The stunter is Rafal Pasierbek of Poland and the guy is more like a motorized gymnast than a [...]
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