Tag Archives: vintage bikes

had fun with that title, didn’t i? if this is your first visit, welcome to bikerMetric. if it’s over 25 years old, it’s vintage, right? or is it “classic?” since i grew up listening to classic rock stations (good luck ...

bikerMetric friend TOOLS sent this poster for a cool motorcycle show and swap meet in kansas city. seems also the club is starting a spinoff club for the guys that are more into customs rather than the vintage bikes these ...

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 ...

there isn’t much to say about brough superior that hasn’t been said by others much more knowledgeable and experienced than i. so i’m gonna lift most of what there is to say about this 1932 black alpine model and it’s ...

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 ...

first i want to thank kevin from vintage bike night york for sending the t-shirt. now for the babes. i got some of these pix from charlie harvin, a photographer and chronicler of vintage motorbikes, and his great, fun, and ...

this photo and most of the info below is from my friend gordon calder. gilera motorcycles first sprang to prominence in the late 1930’s, when the italian firm’s supercharged four-cylinder racers trounced bmw in grand prix races and snatched the ...

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 ...

anzani was an engine manufacturer founded by alessandro anzani (1877-1956) in 1907 in france. throughout its 73-year history, the company produced engines for aircraft, automobiles, boats, and motorcycles in factories in britain, italy, and france. alessandro’s early designs included a ...

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