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 »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 »motorized bicycle by art deco motorcycling
At first glance this bike looks like it’s 110 years old and French. It’s not. This bike is less than a year old and it’s origin is Hungarian. Our friend Szakal of Art Deco Motorcycling and his sons were at ...
Read More »vintage sidecar custom by art deco motorcycling
Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like you to get to know the best motorcycle builder in all of Eastern Europe. His name is Szakál and he is “100% Magyar,” as he says. The bikes he builds in his garage are branded ...
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 »budapest bobber builder of junak motorcycle motors
Ladies and gentlemen, here are a couple of rare motorcycles created by a builder in Budapest, Hungary. His name is Szakal and these bikes are based on old Eastern European motorcycle motors. Junak was a Polish bike company formed in ...
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