Tag Archives: thumpers

saw this on back street heroes blog. they wondered what motor was in it. i can’t figure it out, either. looks like a thumper and was taken at fathead’s in south dakota, if that helps anyone. anybody know what engine ...

first, i’d like to thank cyril huze for posting a little thing about these bikes that got my gears going this morning. imme motorcycles were manufactured in germany between 1948 and 1956 by norbert riedel. during world war two he ...

six weeks ago i posted about a build my friends at el solitario mc were constructing. today i got a message; they finished. they call it “the winning loser” and it’s the killer little 1989 yamaha sr250 you see here: ...

found this motorized bicycle somewhere recently. the man who built it made the tank himself and utilized an nsu fork and one of those little engines made to mount on a bicycle. and now, some little hungarian mystery bike sent ...

saw something about road sign hacking on the biltwell blog yesterday so i went looking for bigger images for you guys. i thought about doing snazzy grafix myself where the text doesn’t bleed out over the background and all that ...

i simply really dig this killer little thumper. photos by spongy at the bees knees: Get the best of bikerMetric directly in your inbox, once a week, every week. [wysija_form id="1"]

find of the year (so far!). this is a jaguh chopper from the far east. i discovered it on borneo garage’s blog. don’t know it’s exact origin but after a little research it seems to be that jaguh is a ...

1953 150cc 2-stroke thumper with sachs motor and 4-speed | 50mph/80kmh it’s always a great day for a ride Get the best of bikerMetric directly in your inbox, once a week, every week. [wysija_form id="1"]

The first time I heard Rage Against the Machine I thought the Beasite Boys were suddenly all ****** off. According to the latest bM poll, beer and revolution are preferred by the same percentage of people. What does that mean? ...

I really need to make it back to The City for next year’s event. The Dirtbag Challenge rules are simple and you’d think I first wrote them: 1. Build your bike for under $1,000 total, including the donor machine. 2. ...