Tag Archives: xs650 choppers

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 ...

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discovered a cool bike on chop cult this week and wrote the builder/owner to see if he’d like to send some pix and info and get a profile here on the mad metric pirate vessel we call brrrrrrgMcmatey’s! it’s the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAVED BY TC BROS. finally a post where i am not bashing dumbass f***tards. instead we have great news regarding the FREEDOM or DEATH MACHINE rebuild. if you folks haven’t noticed, there is a nice banner on the top-right of ...

AKA: DON’T F**K WITH ME AND I WON’T F**K WITH YOU welcome to the freedom or death machine rebuild; a series of how to repair all the f***ed up sh*t on the “motorcycle” jeff yarrington from saint motorbikes “built” for ...

tools1 sent a few more photos from his weekend trip to the kansas city greaserama. first up is this 1957 mz bk350: and this yamaha xs650 chopper: Get the best of bikerMetric directly in your inbox, once a week, every ...