A man killed in San Francisco's Outer Mission neighborhood earlier this week has been identified by the medical examiner as the president of the San Francisco branch of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, authorities said. San Fransisco Police Department investigators say that Mark "Papa" Guardado, 46, was the person found shot at about 10:30 p. m. Tuesday outside a bar in the city's Mission District about a mile from the group's club house in the Dogpatch neighborhood. Guardado died a short time later at a local hospital.

Australian Robbie Maddison broke Monday night the world record for the longest motorcycle jump at an exhibition at the Rio All-Suite Casino and Hotel. Maddison leapt 322 feet, 7˝ inches (98. 34 meters), easily breaking the Guinness World Records of 277 feet and 6 inches (84. 58 meters) set by Trigger Gumm in 2005 in Australia. It also beat Ryan Capes's non-certified mark of 310 feet and 4 inches (94. 59 meters). Capes, a native of Kent, Washington, set the unofficial record also in 2005.

Motorcycles could be banned on many Philippines roads. Despite being the most common means of transportation in the Philippines, lawmakers have filed a bill seeking to ban motorcycles on main roads, thoroughfares and national highways in the country. House Bill No. 3080 filed by Reps. Narciso D. Santiago III (Party-list, ARC) and Marcelino R. Teodoro (1st Dist. , Marikina City, Lakas-CMD) establishes guidelines designed to prevent road accidents, particularly those involving motorcycles.

Royal titles to benefit a cause are now for sale: for $180,000, one can become a duke or duchess. The cheapest title is a knighthood, for only $40,000. The titles are sold online through Nobility. co. uk by David Howe, aka King David of the Isle of Man.

Running on a Russian tank engine, a giant motorcycle dubbed as Led Zeppelin by its creator has been duly acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's heaviest motorbike. The bike weighs four-and-a-half ton and measures 17 feet four inches long by seven feet six inches tall prompting creator Tilo Nieber, to remark, "You don't get much more heavy metal than this. "