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So you like metric cafe racers? What about thumpers? Suzuki’s? Beer? Well, you’re in luck, chumps! I’ve had the pleasure of trading a few emails with one of the co-founders of Ryca Motors, the L.A.-based two-man shop cranking out transformed ...

Very nice. We got a couple of noobs yesterday. First is kevinhog. Kevin is a SoCal rider of a radical CB750 chopper with a gnarly girder front. He’s got a nifty blog you can check out here. Thanks for the ...

Here is a piece about lacing and balancing the rear wheel of the FREEDOM or DEATH Machine which was written by somebody who is now nameless. The article is still good. The wheels that are being laced are a bit ...

Before the beer kicked in. Working on Adrian’s XS650 dropseat frame. I’m posting a killer techTip where you will learn how to lace and balance your wheels. Save a couple hundred bucks. The woman who inexplicably loves me wants my ...

All right guys. Hope everybody had a great weekend. We’ve got a cool interview coming up in a day or two on bikerMetric with some dudes building killer cafe racer thumpers in Los Angeles. They like science and medical marijuana. ...

Here is an interesting vintage motorcycle brand that very few know of; Simplex Manufacturing Corporation of New Orleans, Louisiana. Simplex was founded in 1935 by J. Paul Treen, a Harley-Davidson dealer in Baton Rouge. In the early 1930’s he recognized ...

Found it while looking for cool stuff yesterday. It’s being built by a guy nicknamed xlch. He had one re-phased motor he put in front and an early kickstart-only motor for the rear, a set of cases from someplace he ...

KA-BLAMMO!™ One day I saw a killer two-stroke drag bike on Chopper Dave’s site and after two seconds on Google to see where he got it, I found this killer link to a bunch of old school Performance Machine photos. ...

Home made cheap f**k Texas style! Adrian is building a nice XS650 chopper here in Austin. Got an email from him yesterday: I stop by almost every day. Here are a few pics of a ghetto seat pan shaping I ...