All right, ladies and gentlemen. It’s time to go back to our regularly-scheduled programming of beer-soaked articles and interviews about old school metric bobbers, choppers, and cafes. If anybody is interested in contributing to bikerMetric, email me and give me ...
Read More »this is the end
it is, my friend. first, i sold the site. let me share a story which has little to do with motorcycles until the end. on sunday, september 23, our next door neighbor was murdered. two thugs busted down his door, ...
Read More »thoughts on the christian *** and christ
1. is there one *** or two? “the man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. he must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, ...
Read More »quote of the day | jack london
“a million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the strength of his body, managed to feed his wife and children, so that through him the race survived. you on the other hand, ...
Read More »fascination with the rising sun
it is hard to pin down the origin of this song. from my research, my guess as i begin this is the tune is at least 300 years old. maybe older. the lyrics are american writ. 200 years old themselves. ...
Read More »reader rides | justin’s cx500 streetfighter
received some pix and info from mister justin allen about his custom 1979 honda cx500 deluxe about a week ago. this is what he wrote about the build, with a little editing done by some ****** who posts bikes on ...
Read More »good rockin’ tonight | roy brown
many believe this is the first rock-n-roll song. recorded less than one block away from the (in)famous congo square in new orleans in 1947, it sounds like nothing the world was listening to at the time. about congo square; it ...
Read More »more xs650 bobber pix from chappell customs
got a nice email from rob the other day with new pix of their sweet xs650 bobber/boardtracker i posted on the first. i’d stated that they sent a mass email out with pix and info on the bike that was ...
Read More »xs650 boardtrack-style bobber | chappell customs
received another email monday but the copy sent with these photos was exactly as posted on the chappel customs blog and i don’t care to re-edit it for anybody’s amusement. it was also a mass email sent to many others, ...
Read More »tear out your rear-view mirrors
too many books leaning in one direction skull-faced boxes screaming ex-girlfriend rage and the secrets of the torn-out pages of daddy’s little spanking book i light my pipe and smoke thinking is mentioning a mobile phone cool in 2012 ’cause ...
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