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 »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 »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 »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 ...
Read More »couple of metric drag racers
A Honda 125cc drag racer: A Yamaha two-stroke drag racer that was built and run by Performance Machine. Check out their old school Flickr page. I’m guessing it’s a late-60’s 350cc R3 motor. Anybody know for sure? >> Get ...
Read More »after hours choppers! and other cool people…
Excellent! Gabe at After Hours Choppers is donating a pair of his flat trackers brass risers for the Freedom or Death machine. I couldn’t be more excited. Thanks, Gabe! Thanks to everyone everywhere who has thrown up the poster I ...
Read More »party poster from ****
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Read More »lone star roundup pix
Went out with the little lady last night to South Congress to drink beer, meet people, and watch the hotrods. I’ll post more hotrod images soon, but first wanted to throw up these pix. The killer XS chopper you see ...
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