Tag Archives: yamaha choppers

We just finished doing a rebody on Danny’s XS along with a front brake, new seat, new handlebar, headlight and more. A quick rundown on the bike: It started as a basketcase ’79 Yamaha XS 650 with a frame, engine, and ...

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 ...

discovered this beauty on rocket garage today: it was built by joe’s garage in portugal and seems to have a gilera cx125 front end and yamaha xj600 motor. gorgeous. here are a couple other projects by the guys at joe’s. first, ...

support is important. support is sometimes more than money. it’s answering your phone. it’s helping a friend move. it’s praying. it’s being thankful. it’s understanding, listening, and working together. i support tc bros. they walk what they talk. tim (left) ...

can’t help it. this is rad. i don’t buy the horse often anymore because i’d always rather spend six bucks and change on half-a**ed beer, or almost two gallons of gas, and f*** around online finding bikes with a happy ...

great photos of mark huang’s sr400 chopper from backstreet buckets: Get the best of bikerMetric directly in your inbox, once a week, every week. [wysija_form id="1"]

it was bound to happen. sooner or later bikerMetric was going to get 300 suckers to click the follow button. here are the latest souls i will dissolute into banker-hurting, beer-swilling, metric motorbike-riding braggarts of our planet’s impending doom. i’ve ...

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 ...

all right metric mofos. blogger finally got it’s s**t together and i can post this crazy and killer bike from canada. i’m going to let the owner of the bike tell you about it in his words: Hey man. Love ...

here is one more cool little shop i discovered a few weeks ago that is making simple metric bobbers and choppers called garage duck tail. they even make cafe racers. located in fukushima, japan, the guys here seem to work ...