One Lap of the Web: made in West Germany...with pride!

-- Out of all the viral social media trends that 24-hour news agencies love to fret over, easily the best is #burnoutnomination -- where you do a burnout and tag an unwitting victim, whereupon they have to perform it in 24 hours or face copious shame and embarrassment. Porsche racer and director Jeff Zwart was recently tasked with burnout duty. Never one to shy away from The Awesome, he recorded a fantastic burnout in his Porsche 914/6. He then nominated Magnus Walker, which will make for a sweet video that'll be a damn sight cooler than seeing these two chug Smirnoff Ices.

-- Now that Sochi is finally over, we can once again concentrate on what makes Russia great: hockey, a cartoonish dictatorial president, and Ladas. This particular Lada is a 2105 "styling car," and the video that introduces it to the world falls into that same realm of Eastern European weirdness that gave us Trololo and, in a satirical roundabout way, Electronic Supersonik. A mysterious man, possibly the eponymous Chudy, poses with the car in a field. But not for long, comrade, there's still the parasite of rust that threatens the proletariat revolution! A bog-standard Lada with a body kit and sweet stripes has never looked so cool, or so tasteful. Here's hoping Rory Carroll will take inspiration for his own Lada and start showing up to work in one-piece tracksuits. Why are you late, Rory? "Sorry, I had to contemplate my own mortality in a field somewhere."

-- It takes 1,600 parts to build a BMW R90S. In 1975, this would have been a lot easier. But in the Year Of Our Lord 2014 three wacky people from Max BMW ordered every single part from BMW's factory OE catalog to reassemble, essentially, a new-old stock BMW R90S. Clutch, crankcase, cylinder heads. Exhausts, emblems, points and coils. Even a frame, wheels, and rare luggage cases were able to be ordered. Just five parts were rescued from donor bikes: a swingarm, rear brake pedal and various linkages. It took the shop over a year to amass the parts, but the build itself took just four days. The total cost to play Lego Technic God over Germany's finest sport-touring machine ran to $46,000, or the equivalent of exactly 3.3 S1000RRs. In 1975, the R90S cost the equivalent of $14,000. Nobody said motorcycle lunacy was cheap.

By Blake Z. Rong