This month at Turbo & High-Tech Performance, we slaved away and were forced to watch DVDs to determine if they were worth your precious dollars and time. What can we say, we love our jobs. Here are this month's pick of DVDs.
Road Rage II: In Speed We TrustNo, Turbo isn't a sportbike magazine, but we have one thing in common-an appreciation for speed. Even if you drive a sport compact I know you check out the crotch rockets when they pass you on the freeway and you might have even raced against a couple. It is undeniable that they are fast.
Full Throttle Video brings you "Road Rage II: In Speed We Trust." This DVD features more than 25 riders from across the United States doing 140-mph wheelies, burnouts, and many other high-speed stunts on the streets of New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Florida and St. Louis. They put together footage from such sportbike crews as the Superbike Freaks (SBF) of San Francisco, Twelve O'Clock NYC, M.I. Extremes (160 mph+!), Streetfighterz, DTE, Ten Ninety 6, Wheelie Boys, Strong Island's Fearless, Go Hardd Boys, Ruthless Tactics and more. One cool highlight was SBF popping wheelies through traffic across the Golden Gate Bridge and rolling with 100-plus bikes.
There are a ton of wheelies, nollies, can-cans, dranos, bike surfing and doughnuts-anything you could imagine that can be done is on this DVD. Beyond the tricks, our favorite part was the circuit racing crash segment. Spliced together was crash footage of a zillion racing bikes. Morbid, yes, but we all know there's a fascination for watching people mess up. Surprisingly most of the riders hop back on their feet after their bike disintegrates at 100 mph.
There's also a cool feature of GP champion Wayne Rainey racing his supercharged GP Yamaha on the Grand Prix tour. You get a bike's-eye view of the knee drops around the turns of a true road course. This is too much body contact to the pavement for us-so instead we live vicariously through the DVD.
Overall, this is a DVD worth picking up at your local Wal-Mart. The quality of footage was a lot better than many other motorsport DVDs we have encountered. The music left something to be desired, but we recognize it's hard to please everyone. A downside was the lack of chicks on the DVD. We hoped to see some lovely ladies riding their own bikes to fulfill a couple of fantasies, but there were none. The only female footage was a couple of thong shots and a clean feature of the Coconuts 2001 Swimsuit Finals. To pick up this DVD, check out www.fullthrottlevideo.com.
R. Choo & J. Chan: Thumbs upRating (on scale of 1-10): 7Rating for girls: 2Rating for action shots: 8Rating for bikes featured: 3
Whiplash: The Carlisle VideoCarlisle's undisputed burnout king, Mikie Swartz, created this DVD filled with a mix of cars, bikes, women and "uncensored insanity." It's filled with scenes of burnouts, drifting, doughnuts, big air jumps and crotch rocket wheelies and stunts. You also get more than your fill of girls gone wild with plenty of chicks flashing.
The DVD features a variety of events, including the Carlisle Truck Show 2000, Bikepass 2002 and 2001 import show among others. You see bikes, trucks, imports, domestics, dirt courses, snow roads, you name it. We see several sequences of Mikie winning a burnout contest and him e-brake drifting around wet corners and in the snow.