AFT Customs is a pretty good custom metric bike builder. They won some awards in 2009 with this bike: Tasty. They’ve recently created a new performance kit for the Honda VTX 1300 and Fury. The kit comes complete with pistons, ...
Read More »yamaha cruiser exhausts by rush racing products
New guy! Rockabarros joined our little group of metric madmen. Thanks for hooking up, man. It’s the Yamaha cruiser bonanza lately at bikerMetric. Here are new pipes by Rush Racing for guys riding Yamaha crusiers like the Stratoliner, V-Star, Road ...
Read More »yamaha star motorcycles virtual bike show
Dig this Yamaha cruiser contest, guys. Now in its fifth year, the Virtual Bike Show contest provides Star owners a chance to show off their personalized Star Motorcycle to the world. The show features more than 1600 entries for your ...
Read More »vintage sidecar custom by art deco motorcycling
Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like you to get to know the best motorcycle builder in all of Eastern Europe. His name is Szakál and he is “100% Magyar,” as he says. The bikes he builds in his garage are branded ...
Read More »smoke out 11: xs650 bike show
It’s freaking on. Everybody is making stuff for the XS craze. Look out for the Discovery Channel show starring some dude with a scraggly beard and a neck tattoo that will be accompanied by a long line of marketing tie-in ...
Read More »stuff that’s coming and gas tanks by shat motorbikes
All right. Got an email and a comment today from this guy: He just built a gorgeous bike with a sidecar using a 242cc thumper that looks like it’s a vertical bevel drive, shaft-driven valvetrain, but actually has two pushrods ...
Read More »the splinter air-powered boardtrack racer
I love the brand “Indian” on his sweater. Dude, it’s a Splinter. Eric Stafford is a smartypants industrial designer from Canada who likes old school boardtrack racing. His concept motorbike, The Splinter, is a “barebones, pure function motorcycle.” Oooo, the ...
Read More »more from the roundup
As I promised. The red thumper in the background was interesting, too. Really enjoyed the realflame/traditional flame mix on this old Ford roadster. Ratrods! Sunglasses? Check. Flask? Check. Prop from Capital One barbarians commercial? Check. These boys were flashing their ...
Read More »friday’s post of cool stuff #18: saturday edition
What’s cool is Confederate is moving back to New Orleans. Yes, I know this isn’t a metric builder but New Orleans has something no other city has and my history there demands that I go on. Can’t help it. New ...
Read More »freedom or death metric motorbike bash update
Um…. Friday is June 11th. Yeah. Not the 10th. I think it was the beer or maybe people patting me on the back which filled me with such extreme dumbassedness. Stupid people. F**k off. Come back tomorrow! Click it and ...
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