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Wheeled-surfers ought to wear a lid - lest they lose their car insurance. A young skateboarder from Halifax recently learned this lesson the hard way, after collecting two tickets from Halifax Regional Police and then receiving an unsavory phone call. Ironically, Pat Harland expected to receive ...

Bill Simpson has turned his helmet expertise toward reducing the number of concussions in football. Simpson has been manufacturing helmets for motorsports for years, turning his experience as a drag racer and a driver in the Indianapolis 500 into safer equipment for use at the track, but it ...

As motorsports fans, we tend to pore over every detail of the race car's evolution, but it's easy to forget other aspects of a race team that progress at approximately the same rate. That includes safety equipment. Nico Rosberg took some time off from of his Formula One driving duties at Mercedes ...

Motorcycles are a hot topic we often cover including reckless riders doing 300 km/h and the latest two-wheeled concepts for us to drool over. We've all been warned (or warned others) of the dangers associated with being a motorcyclist, so when we came across this pretty darn cool helmet "Signal" ...

Although Canadian laws and motorcycle riders seem to embrace helmet safety as a reasonable rule of the road, it seems the age-old fight against helmets laws continues to brew in America (where several states do not require mandatory helmets). The more states allow people to ride motorcycles ...

Has the Angry Birds franchise jumped the shark and hit those dastardly pigs yet? The ornery feathered video game stars have seen their mugs plastered across just about every retail good we can think of. We've seen everything from mundane merchandise like t-shirts, plush dolls and keychains to ...

Just like we've been seeing a lot of on board camera footage from Russia lately, we've also seen some pretty hairy traffic camera captures from China over the past weeks. Today's crazy motorcycle crash takes the cake. As our helmet free hero blasts through an intersection on his motorcycle, a ...

Basic helmet design has come a long way since... wait, no it hasn't. Sure, Snell ratings and DOT approved helmets change every few years as our understanding of head trauma increases, but the basic skull bucket remains pretty much the same as it has for decades. Voztec is looking to add a bit of ...

A motorcyclist in New York passed away while participating in a ride to protest the state's helmet laws this past weekend. Philip Contos, a 55-year-old Harley-Davidson rider, was participating in an American Bikers Aimed for Education (ABATE) ride with over 500 other bikers. According to ...

We were nearly ready to break out the tin foil hats when we first ran across news that cardboard may be better at protecting your noggin than the polystyrene that's currently en vogue in helmets. Upon closer inspection, it turns out the corrugated paper product actually makes a fine impact ...