Tag Archives: xs650 bobbers

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 ...

got a nice email from rob the other day with new pix of their sweet xs650 bobber/boardtracker i posted on the first. i’d stated that they sent a mass email out with pix and info on the bike that was ...

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, ...

dislike having to hammer this every week but i was unhappy with how the sleeves looked on our innovative foot peg design. so we went and found another shop where we paid a six pack of beer to get them ...

thanks to everybody who digs what i’ve created and ordered them. here are some photos of the footpegs we’re shipping this week. there are many are to thank, but most is scott at smith motor works, who does the cad ...

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 ...

this week i was at a mom-n-pop store in oak ridge, tennesee, talking with the proprietor who told me i ought to visit a local garage where they specialize in old goldwings. cool. my laptop was in the shop and ...

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 ...

dig this 1980 yamaha xs650 brat by visual impact. mike emailed me a few pix of the bike he calls “wicked soul.” wasn’t that a soundgarden out-take from badmotorfinger? the build is best told on xs650 chopper. enjoy the eye ...

i got an email from shaun from bobbed to the bone many weeks ago loaded with pix of his yamaha xs650 bobber build, which i’d requested, and due to the hectic nature of my life on the road, i haven’t ...