Tag Archives: vintage bikes

KA-BLAMMO!™ One day I saw a killer two-stroke drag bike on Chopper Dave’s site and after two seconds on Google to see where he got it, I found this killer link to a bunch of old school Performance Machine photos. ...

A British company named Rudge Whitworth formed in 1895 with the merger of two bicycle companies named Rudge and Whitworth. They began to manufacture motorcycles in 1911 and went bust in 1938. I think. Wikipedia says 1946 but I’ve never ...

My associate Marcello, bartender at Lovejoy’s here in Austin, is selling his 1972 Jawa 350cc twin. It’s been well cared for, looks cool, and is very hard to find in the States. Jawa motorbikes were the brainchild of Czech arms ...

1905 Peugeot board track racer. 250cc, 16hp, 110lbs, 87.32mph.   >> Get the best of bikerMetric directly in your inbox, once a week, every week. [wysija_form id="1"]

Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like you to get to know the best motorcycle builder in all of Eastern Europe. His name is Szakál and he is “100% Magyar,” as he says. The bikes he builds in his garage are branded ...

What’s cool is Confederate is moving back to New Orleans. Yes, I know this isn’t a metric builder but New Orleans has something no other city has and my history there demands that I go on. Can’t help it. New ...

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This was written and published on Bikernet in September, but since I’m slammed, it’s easy to cut-n-paste it for the enjoyment of all you bikerMetric readers. I met Justin Kell like I meet a lot of people, in the evening ...

This was Yamaha’s first motorcycle; the YA-1. The first, built in August of 1954, was a 125cc two-stroke single with a four-speed that quickly became renowned as being a fast and agile bike. The YA-1 had a simple form, copied ...

Leif “Basse” Hveem was a Norwegian speedway champion in the 1940’s and ’50’s, winning the European Longtrack Championship twice, and dozens of Nordic and Norwegian Championships. In the mid-30’s he raced with rare Atlas, Rex, and DKW motors. He rode ...