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a strange thing happened on my way to the market yesterday. i received an email from kevin hahn, proprietor of a wisconsin shop named scrambler cycle, which specializes in vintage metric and european motorcycle sales and repair. the bike that ...

i got an email from shaun from bobbed to the bone many weeks ago loaded with pix of his yamaha xs650 bobber build, which i’d requested, and due to the hectic nature of my life on the road, i haven’t ...

went up to mansfield/lexington ohio to the ama mid-ohio vintage motorcycle days this weekend with eric to a race that broke out in a flea market. it was an interesting trip. we met the guy who built that old honda cx500 ...

this is it, mofos. some guy and i are about ready to launch our labor of hate love, RUSTYMETRIC. it’s a digital mag we’re selling as a downloadable pdf. it will look like a magazine but because we’re not killing ...

a panda with two guns! the panda looks like it was cut with a waterjet. these pix were sent by bikerMetric reader len callum this morn. he took them at the “backfire moto” gathering last night somewhere in seattle. they ...

visiting hugh owings in really f***ing charming asheville, north carolina yesterday. he talks a bit about the basic dynamics and mechanics of yamaha xs650 re-phased cranks in the 2.5 minute-long video below. we bulls***ted about bikes and he showed us ...

received a nifty present in the mail yesterday. jenn maa from helrich custom cycles is learning how to etch/engrave stuff and generously offered to do a little brass piece of the winged bikerMetric logo. we’re going to bend it a ...

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this is the current world record holder in the 500cc pushrod class at bonneville: it’s the very derided honda cx500, motherfu***ers. they hit over 114 mph with a stock motor and half-assed body work in 2008. watch the video below. ...

you may remember a reader rides post from a month ago where i profiled maxim’s mt9 dnepr bobber. it seems that they’ve modified the bike in a big way since those photos were taken. maxim wrote with new pix and ...