Tag Archives: reader rides

Carmen Cirelli from London, Ontario, Canada, had never built a motorcycle before this Yamaha XS400 bobber. He had just been between watching the Biker Build Off Series, and worked in a garage. One day he decided to find a cheap ...

Jeremy Huff is a fourty-four year old tool and die maker from Kansas. He has a son, two daughters, and a beautiful wife. Growing up he would help his father build motorcycles and hot rods. His grandfather and great uncle ...

This week’s reader ride is from Dave in Antwerpen, Belgium. Dave’s a 39 year old maintenance mechanic in a concrete factory. He’s always wanted to build a chopper, some kind of single-seater with a chopped fender. “I was looking for ...

Benjamin Hinkle spent six months of his free time in his garage. He bought a 2007 Yamaha V-Star 650 for $2,500. It wasn’t running at the time, but has gotten the works ever since. “I’ve never built a bike so ...

bikerMetric: What’s your 411, brother? Alex Cruze: I’m just a guy that loves bikes. My name is Alex Cruz. I am born and raised in Miami FL. bikerMetric: What do you do and what makes you rock? Alex Cruze: I’m a ...

My name is Ryan Brannon I live in Friendswood, TX just outside of Houston. I am a Machinery Technician in the u.s. Coast Guard. I don’t have any cool stories just a dude in his garage with a welder, grinder and ...

Got an email from Rick with a real one of a kind Honda CMT400 Bobber with a comic strip theme going to it. If you haven’t seen Rick in a few days he’s probably knee deep in hot rods and ...

This radical ride by Canadian native Jamie deserves a bit of a background story, so here it is from the builder himself: “In 1998 I was 23 and already playing pro hockey in Switzerland for 4 years. At that time, ...

1980 Hairy Canary GS850 – Brotherly love, and the bike from a pistachio farmer. Jenny and her husband Mark are El Paso, Texas natives with a custom bike built for his brother, and and equally cool story to go along ...

Last week Erik sent in some pics of his 1974 BMW r90/6. Monday I posted a teaser about it with an ugly before shot and a nice sleek after shot that only revealed part of the bike. Tuesday I posted ...