Starting this post with the symbol of wholeness, transformation, balance, and self-sufficiency was a good idea, I thought, believing those are concepts bikerMetric readers would understand and appreciate. I’m just a beer drinking biker poet with Adobe CS4. OFFENSIVE JOKE ...
Read More »still burning…
More pix from Austin: That last photo is from the Japanese shop Reynal. Here is their blog in Google Translate form. Finished the interview with Jon Ard of Ardcore Choppers. Man, that guy is a hoot. You want an opinion? ...
Read More »burning….burning….burning…
Dudes. Slammed. Just pix tonight. Yoinked from KustomKing. A leaky old Royal Enfield bobber off Sixth street in Austin. . . . A bevy of babes. . . . . . . Some **** I threw together for your eyeball ...
Read More »freedom or death bike build #1
Sent some money to Jeff last Thursday and on Sunday he took off in his blue El Camino to score our 1979 Yamaha XS650 for $850. Dig this exhaust. Seems they only made them with this Gatling gun design for ...
Read More »helmets: now with skin
Wearing a motorcycle helmet is supposed to be better than not wearing one, but there is a potentially-lethal injury that helmets actually cause: rotational injury, AKA intracerebral shearing. When your helmet hits the road, its shell hangs up on the ...
Read More »triumph plans to add seven models in two years
That’s what the press release says. Seven new models by 2012. The planned product expansion was announced at Triumph’s U.S. Dealer Conference someplace, I can’t find out where. It was with a triumphant announcement (sorry, couldn’t help it – cue ...
Read More »friday’s post of cool stuff! #12
Don’t noboby know my troubles with ***. White people so racist. North and South gotta get along. Remember, it’s **** *** Month and your motorcycle needs lovin’, too. Don’t let covert government agencies manipulate you into thinking like they want ...
Read More »stuff about a former custom motorbike company
Before the cool stuff, I have to make a seperate post about Elswick Cycles. This team of brothers have been in biz for a couple of years, but Robert Elswick has been building bike frames for over a decade, starting ...
Read More »fong!
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Read More »techTips! #1
All right guys, I’m slammed with work and the website redesign is taking a back seat. Still, I’m going to introduce something we’re going to do here periodically: bikerMetric techTips. Yes, two words. It’s a branding thing. Back on topic, ...
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