all righty. didn’t see the 13th attempt coming so fast, did you? dig the bodywork. it flows…. faiz from dariztdesign emailed yesterday, one day after i’d posted their unique kz200 cafe racer. he sent some info and asked if he ...
Read More »reader rides | harold’s 1980 cb750 cafe racer
this clean mad max style cafe racer started out as a 1980 police version of a cb750. did not know cops rode the cb. interesting. harold bought it from the original owner for $175. it had been completely dismantled to ...
Read More »kawasaki kz200 cafe racer | dariztdesign
it was a year ago yesterday when i introduced dariztdesign to my faithful readers of motorbikes and madness (and mammaries), and it has slowly grown to be the most popular post on bikerMetric. then, as if on cue, i discovered ...
Read More »cafe racers and choppers from joe’s garage
discovered this beauty on rocket garage today: it was built by joe’s garage in portugal and seems to have a gilera cx125 front end and yamaha xj600 motor. gorgeous. here are a couple other projects by the guys at joe’s. first, ...
Read More »1995 vt600 bobber | free kustom cycles
this vt600 bobber by free kustom cycles is pretty nifty. it’s a bit like the stuff josh does at tail end customs, but this is what guys have been sending in this week. not every bobber is an air-cooled hardtail. ...
Read More »joey’s vlx600 bobber | tail end customs
here is a 2006 honda shadow vlx600 josh at tail end customs built for a guy named joey, who had recently returned from fighting in the middle-east. he hit up josh and told him how he had a motocross background ...
Read More »reader rides | phil’s 1981 honda cb750 bobber
this clean cb750 bobber was sent in by phil’s dad, ronald. he wrote that it is “not the most exotic 750, perhaps.” nope, but not everything needs to be and on a bike as clean as this one, why should ...
Read More »robbie robinson’s latest nsu chopper
here is robbie’s latest supercharged nsu, of which he says is one of a trilogy of nsu customs. he has done two so far. this one: and now this one: the first one was “sort of vintage racer type” robbie ...
Read More »vintage bike of the day | custom csepel-pannonia bobber
got an email this morning from my hungarian friend arpad zirig. it’s an in-progress csepel bobber that once looked similar to this: but now looks kind of like this: honk! honk! what we have here is a modified 1949 csepel ...
Read More »vintage bike of the day | 1932 brough superior black alpine 680
there isn’t much to say about brough superior that hasn’t been said by others much more knowledgeable and experienced than i. so i’m gonna lift most of what there is to say about this 1932 black alpine model and it’s ...
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