Custom Motorcycle Builds

Or is it chopper? Probably. I’m burnt. 20 hours of sleep last week but SXSW is finally over. We’ve got a lot of stuff in the works coming up on bM, so come back soon to find out what’s what, ...

This was written and published on Bikernet in September, but since I’m slammed, it’s easy to cut-n-paste it for the enjoyment of all you bikerMetric readers. I met Justin Kell like I meet a lot of people, in the evening ...

This was Yamaha’s first motorcycle; the YA-1. The first, built in August of 1954, was a 125cc two-stroke single with a four-speed that quickly became renowned as being a fast and agile bike. The YA-1 had a simple form, copied ...

Leif “Basse” Hveem was a Norwegian speedway champion in the 1940’s and ’50’s, winning the European Longtrack Championship twice, and dozens of Nordic and Norwegian Championships. In the mid-30’s he raced with rare Atlas, Rex, and DKW motors. He rode ...

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Welcome Jean Vienneau. He’s our latest reader to sign up. He lives on a small farm with an old post office near a wildlife refuge in Minnesota and is working on wind power project. Independence! Freedom! Excellent! That’s exactly the ...

Visit Joe King Speed Shop to see more for yourself. He specializes in outlaw helmets that for the most part keep the man off your back. The shells are about 75% of the size of other well-known non-DOT lids and ...

What a killer little chopper. The builder is Bodyline Custom Motorcycle and they’re somewhere in Japan, but not on the web anywhere except in a few blogs and this Flickr stream. UPDATE 10.10.10: I found the builder on Facebook today. ...

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You may have seen this bike before, say, in a ton of magazines. It was put up on eBay last week with a “Buy It Now” price of $26,000. A few hours before the end of the auction, it was ...