sporting his bikerMetric wings sticker on his helmet. right on, mister! enjoy your trip! thanks for all your support, man. as for the rest of you, email your stickers on stuff! those are the new wing designs plus the STICK ...
Read More »vintage bike of the day | custom csepel-pannonia bobber
got an email this morning from my hungarian friend arpad zirig. it’s an in-progress csepel bobber that once looked similar to this: but now looks kind of like this: honk! honk! what we have here is a modified 1949 csepel ...
Read More »friday’s post of cool stuff #74 | things to amuse you: part 1
arpad got his stickers. he’s a little young to be playing around on bikerMetric, but hey, who am i to judge. i bet he s***s on ******* all day like we all want to. isn’t there a greek “myth” about ...
Read More »arpad’s raw yamaha xs400 tracker
our friend arpad emailed that his 1982 yamaha xs400 is tracker finished. he and szakal from art deco motorcycling took this bike: and after over nine months, made this bike: szakal made a hardtail for the rear and replaced the ...
Read More »ukraine-built jawa two-stroke 250cc thumper bobber
our friend arpad sent these to me today. seems a man calling himself “cranberry” from kiev built this sleek old 1963 jawa 250cc two-stroke thumper. that’s two posts in a row about bikes from kiev in the ukraine. i don’t ...
Read More »new members, hedkase cycles, and off to save the dog
bikerMetric had the most viewers ever yesterday. about 300 more than we’ve been averaging in the past month. london, bangkok, phx, manila and l.a. were the top five yesterday. thanks for coming around, mo-folks! i want to thank tools for ...
Read More »xs400 bobber in the works
our hungarian motorcycle journalist friend arpad sent me a photo over the weekend of a bike he said was being built. i noticed the watermarked logo as that of the master szakal’s shop, art deco motorcycling. here is the donor ...
Read More »target practice and art deco motorcycling kz750 project
you may wonder what the bike below is all about. it’s about target practice. it was alex’s idea. arpad sent me the link to the website where the bike came from but i am not going to give it to ...
Read More »1000 readers of garage built metric motorbike mayhem
A great thing happened on bikerMetric yesterday. 1,000 reader/visitors came by. 1,132 to be exact. It’s the first time we’ve hit a grand. In celebration of this hard-earned feat, I’d like to say thank you to everybody who’s become involved ...
Read More »vintage bike of the day: cz motorcycles
Founded in 1919 in the city of Strakonice, located in the newly-formed Czechoslovakia, CZ started as a weapons manufacturer “Ceska Zbrojovka” which literally means “Czechoslovakian Weapon Factory.” 1932 cz kaktus CZ built their first motorcycle in 1932 and called it ...
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