Tag Archives: two strokes

once again good friend TOOLS1 has come through with a freaky-assed motorsickle he found. this one was discovered at the “heart of america motorcycle enthusiasts show” yesterday at the kansas city airport. the owner/builder was not there, but his boss ...

got an email this morning from my hungarian friend arpad zirig. it’s an in-progress csepel bobber that once looked similar to this: but now looks kind of like this: honk! honk! what we have here is a modified 1949 csepel ...

hey metric mofos, the poll that’s up at this moment is pretty important, as it will largely determine what parts we start making. we cannot start making them all, and will probably start with two or three products, so if ...

reader pedro jose sent his kickass montesa cafe racer. he calls it “pantera.” maybe that is because it was such hard pain in the ***. the final result is a unique take on the vintage cafe racer style. the story ...

these are the latest kawasaki f7 175 cc two-stroke thumpers to come across my desk. these street trackers are the latest busch bros creations. the sweet pair are for sale for an undisclosed amount. starting with the white one, the ...

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 ...

meet what might be the most radical suzuki gt550 in the world. the engine is a 36 year-old three cylinder two-stroke in a custom subframe and tail section. the bike, built entirely by motohangar in virgina, is called “the honduki” ...

more emails. this time it’s from some wackos from the nevada desert. from reno, lance busch bush & busch automotive sent some killer pix and info about their kickass kawasaki f7-175 street tracker. it’s a two-stroke thumper. my favorite (this week). ...

about to hit the road again on our way to charlotte where we are going to waste our time with paul aiken from aeromach. in the meantime, here are a few photos of a nasty kawasaki triple drag bike that ...

montesa motorcycles began in 1944 when a young barcelona industrialist named pedro permanyer began to produce his own gas generators for automobiles. with the gas generator industry being a staple of individual spanish power supply from the spanish civil war ...