Tag Archives: xs650

Getting back to the basics. Motorcycles are, above all else, a toy to most riders in North America. Ridiculous insurance rates, increased helmet and safety laws and a dying interest in hands-on activities from the younger generation have caused a ...

Trent first wrote about the Busch brothers, Danny and Lance from Busch and Busch, back in September of 2011 when he covered a nice Kawasaki F7-175 street tracker. He described them as “some wackos from the Nevada Desert.” Sounds about ...

Meet Johan and Joris Theybers from Belgium. They go by the name JTbrothers. Joris, the younger brother, was bit by the motorcycle bug on a young age and a lifelong motocross rider. One day, destiny came knocking on Joris’ door ...

received another email monday but the copy sent with these photos was exactly as posted on the chappel customs blog and i don’t care to re-edit it for anybody’s amusement. it was also a mass email sent to many others, ...

found a nice little site with well-written pieces at driven daily today. this bike was build by a guy named keith hill. after doing a little searching, i could find no website or blog for the builder but will let ...

tony is a regular contributor to the flakebook bikerMetric page. no you don’t get a link like i always give. finger it out or yourself. if you can’t. i don’t care. wash your hands, jerkoff. this bike was sent in ...

i like john ryland very much. we’ve been acquainted for over a year and he even sent me a classified t-shirt last may. he stays in touch and writes nice things to me, which baffles me greatly because i am ...

i found this bike and brit bike builder shaun last july. he’s sent me some cool stuff and kept me up to date on his builds, which seem immaculate. according to shaun, he built the frame from scratch and fabricated ...

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 ...