ta freaking da! here is the winner of the first bikerMetric cheapoChallenge: ryan mcquiston’s 1971 kawasaki f7 chopper. the f7 was a two-stroke 175cc “dual-purpose” motorcycle. that’s what they called motoretards back then. that’s the word, right? motoretard? the kind ...
Read More »techTips | xs650 transmission assembly by hugh owings
welcome back to bikerMetric, mofos. here is the latest techTip from our resident mad mechanic, hugh owings. he’s going to show you how to properly re-build and re-assemble your xs650 transmission, for those of you in need of doing so ...
Read More »reader rides | will harmon’s triumph tracker
for some reason dudes who build bikes email me. i ask them for exclusive rights to their build. they foolishly agree. then i drink their souls with satan and laugh as we watch re-runs of “dancing with the stars,” cursing ...
Read More »drinking beer with david from el solitario
lots of beer makes me want to write poetry. the cocaine of politics of beer drinking revolutions in corporate boardrooms bored bar stools supporting dreams held hostage for greed if i could only afford the heroin of television teaching speaking ...
Read More »carved tires by wim delvoye
discovered this today on the always interesting go away garage. the artist is a belgian dude named wim delvoye. he does tons of interesting stuff from jewelry and photography to stained glass and giant life-sized gothic-styled sculptures of bulldozers. he ...
Read More »friday’s post of cool stuff #62: revolution and beer
first the beer: check out the beer booters bash pdq in socal. there will be giveaways from biltwell, zombie performance, hard luck, miller beer and more. plus bro love where nobody is grossed out by farting and sweaty armpit deodorant ...
Read More »philo beddoe family reunion # something-or-other
if you’re out in northern california this afternoon and weekend, got a few bucks to pitch in for beer and grub, and don’t want some nagging bulls**t/person in your face, get with the philo ride northeast of sacto and lay ...
Read More »thanking the losers who read my ****
had a poll up last week. i should have taken the third option and replaced it with pot. bet there would have been a few clicks on that one. anyway, according to the bikerMetric research department for world domination, bM ...
Read More »vintage motorcycle days at the mid-ohio racetrack
went up to mansfield/lexington ohio to the ama mid-ohio vintage motorcycle days this weekend with eric to a race that broke out in a flea market. it was an interesting trip. we met the guy who built that old honda cx500 ...
Read More »a gift from godfrey
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