montesa motorcycles began in 1944 when a young barcelona industrialist named pedro permanyer began to produce his own gas generators for automobiles. with the gas generator industry being a staple of individual spanish power supply from the spanish civil war ...
Read More »some garage builder gets a logo and new identity
created a logo and little identity package for a bikerMetric advertiser. look for his blog to be re-designed to match this theme. branding! Get the best of bikerMetric directly in your inbox, once a week, every week. [wysija_form id="1"]
Read More »art for losers by classified moto
my friend/dude who tolerates me, john ryland at classified moto, is more than a fab motorbike builder, he’s a *** designer and he creates of all sorts of things. as a *** designer myself (and a poser!), i dig his ...
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icon’s new and interesting commercial (thanks do the ton): Get the best of bikerMetric directly in your inbox, once a week, every week. [wysija_form id="1"]
Read More »freedom is responsibility
welcome to the cult of bikerMetric. today is “easter.” what do eggs and rabbits have to do with the resurrection of christ? they are simple metaphors. they are pagan symbols of fertility and birth. simply because you are told today ...
Read More »kawasaki 800 vulcan v-twin bobber by dozer garage
i’ve been asked by some guys to profile more custom kawasaki bobbers, choppers and cafe racers. they are not as easy to find as honda and yamaha bikes largely because many of them are water-cooled and many builders steer clear ...
Read More »1999 kawasaki w650 tracker
a swiss cat who likes red tractors and calls himself dirtyrider found this 1999 kawasaki w650 over two years ago and finished it three weeks ago. start: middle (i like the low bars): finish: dirtyrider details his build and all the ...
Read More »1999 kawasaki w650 tracker
check this gorgeous gast tank made my the madmen at rigid hips in stockholm, sweden, motherf***ers. according to nicke, the great editor of their blog, this tank was constructed with the use of “millions of kilowatts of gamma ray radiation” ...
Read More »bike show in tampa coming up
all right you posers. she’s lonely. she needs yer lovin’. she needs to be shown off. use her for a chance at 15 minutes of fame: meet indigo | now with 36dd’s! there’s a big ol’ bash ’bout to happen ...
Read More »vintage bike of the day: 1934 498cc v-twin bsa j34-11
this overhead valve v-twin bsa made 4.98 horsepower. giddy up, you limey tea garglers. the model j was was 18% more expensive than other 500cc single cylinder overhead valve motorcycles such as the w34-8, while being not as powerful (.01 ...
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