Tag Archives: techtips

As motorcyclists, we all dream of getting away from it all. Work, responsibilities, sometimes even our loved ones can be a touch too much. Sometimes the best therapy is flying over a long trail of asphalt curving through the hills ...

been busy with the real world, folks. found this and thought it might be cool for some of you to save and use. it’s a complete mikuni carburetor and parts manual from 1975. click the image below to read and/or download ...

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 ...

it’s been a long time coming but here it is…. a techTip! once, i was a man who thought he knew some sh*t. i was a man who knew who to trust, who to fight for, who to believe, who ...

i finally got around to it, mofos. here is the latest installment of alex’s helpful series on how to build your custom metric chopper or bobber frame: You’ve Been Framed: Part 3 Picking up where we left off with two ...

You’ve Been Framed: Part 2 We’ve spent the last few months getting our shop ready and acquiring tools and bits and pieces. Now it’s time to get busy and put all this stuff to use. Let’s build a frame. To ...

Here is our latest installment of techTips by Alex Chopperbuilder that he has called: You’ve Been Framed: Part 1 If you’ve been following along bikerMetric’s “Setting Up Your Home Garage” articles these past weeks, you’ll be ready to put that ...

Part 5 | MORE POWER TOOLS!  THE FINAL PART TO SETTING UP YOUR HOME GARAGE: [EDITOR’S NOTE: Alex, the check is in the mail! Here is Part 5 of what was to be a 3-part series. Hey, you want thorough ...

This is part 4, click the pic below for setting up your home garage parts 1 & 2 Part 4: POWER TOOLS Part 4, you cry? Yeah, Part 4. It’s what you get because writing stuff about tools is simply ...

This is Part 3. Last time we talked about your home motorcycle garage layout, before that we managed to figure out how much space we actually need to set up our workshop. If you haven’t already checked that out, you ...