Tag Archives: reader rides

mister don snow emailed recently with some pix and info of his first attempt at a custom build, a 1973 750cc triumph tiger five speed chopper build for his eldest son, don jr. seems junior showed up in don’s driveway ...

since september has obviously become “tracker month” on bikerMetric, please accept this offering, a lone thumper which started its current life as an old and beat up yamaha sr500. once the builder, steve, gathered all parts he needed, he stripped ...

according to drew, this yamaha xs400 was born from “a sh*t load of parts left over from a previous resto xs400.” the flat track bug bit his *** and he had to build one. the frame was modified to fit ...

yes. i spelled it that way on porpoise. there once was a man from nantucket. his d**k was vice president. at&t is either going to buy apple, or get bought by them in the next two years. as for the ...

you may remember a reader rides post from a month ago where i profiled maxim’s mt9 dnepr bobber. it seems that they’ve modified the bike in a big way since those photos were taken. maxim wrote with new pix and ...

david morgan wrote me a month ago and i’m finally getting his bike posted. it’s a sweet cb750 hondamatic from 1978. here’s his tale: Just bought this sweet chop a few months back from an add on Craigslist. One look ...

this bike is owned by russian bikerMetric member maxim (aka: sirocco). it’s an old dnepr mt9 he found in 2006 “as a piece of scrap metal,” he says. there were no legal documents that came with it so riding this machine ...

as we did with travis miller a couple of months ago, here is another installment of what i haven’t named; a reader story, i guess. these are tales of dudes who have good ones to tell. they are the history ...

i was in the middle of this post when my account was disabled for violation of blogger terms and services for some reason. on the bM flakebook page, benny is known as “lee black.” interesting. here is what he wrote ...

since i put up the little banner on the right calling out for pix and info of your bikes, the reception has been pretty good. bikerMetric has received emails from the likes of lucky monkey, m’s motorcycle, and of course ...