Benjamin Hinkle spent six months of his free time in his garage. He bought a 2007 Yamaha V-Star 650 for $2,500. It wasn’t running at the time, but has gotten the works ever since. “I’ve never built a bike so ...

In June we featured Jay Patel, likely our youngest builder on bikerMetric, ever. Jay’s a 21 year old who dropped out of studying engineering to follow his dreams and start building custom motorcycles. In his father’s workshop he began to ...

K-Kustom has been producing some outlandish builds in Indonesia. This latest one is a steampunk-inspired custom Honda Supercub. The supercub has been the highest selling motorcycles of all time, but this one looks nothing like any you’ve seen before. There ...

Ackermann Cycle Performance (ACP)’s roots are in general motorcycle repair. Over the years they’ve moved away from repairs in order to dedicated their time and resources to building customized motorcycles. ACP does welding, fabricating, CAD design, CNC milling, powder-coating, and makes some really ...

The Dirtbag Challenge is an event that takes place every year in San Francisco. It’s a grass roots, low budget chopper build-off and party, and besides being a contest, it’s also a concept: if you want a bad-*** motorcycle, then ...

Chris Chappell’s at it again. This time it’s a Harley-Davidson Street 750 Brat, and yup (we went over this already), it’s a metric. You can check out all of our stories on Chappell Customs here, and keep in mind, these ...

If you haven’t already read our interview with Jesper Bram, one of the two filmmakers behind Flake & Flames: The Kustom Kulture Adventure, you should hurry up and do it. If you have already read it, and were too cheap ...

How would you feel about leaving your town to your the world, making a crowd-funded documentary on kustom kulture? Three years after the hot rods, motorcycles, pinup models, and rockabilly music of Flake & Flames hit the web, we sat ...

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You know why I like AC/DC? They just keep producing. So does dariztdesign from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Last month we showed you a build full of Java culture from k-kustom. Faiz Darizt called bikerMetric “a great source of inspiration” for him. I ...