Tag Archives: yamaha v-star

In 1989 Matt Fuller was just a wee lad. At the tender age of 5 years old, his learned to ride a motorcycle. It was a Yamaha Y-Zinger 50 that his father borrowed from his work. He’s loved bikes ever ...

Benjamin Hinkle spent six months of his free time in his garage. He bought a 2007 Yamaha V-Star 650 for $2,500. It wasn’t running at the time, but has gotten the works ever since. “I’ve never built a bike so ...

My name is Ryan Brannon I live in Friendswood, TX just outside of Houston. I am a Machinery Technician in the u.s. Coast Guard. I don’t have any cool stories just a dude in his garage with a welder, grinder and ...

Some time last week I posted a sneak preview on bikerMetric and on bikerMetric on Facebook. It was of a real nice V-Twin, a custom seat, and some other teaser pics. The full build and the photo shoot are done. ...

I don’t want to give away too much… let’s just say I’ve been patiently waiting to get some photography shots of a 2002 Yamaha V-Star 650 with sweet parts like these on them: Get the best of bikerMetric directly in ...

Got this one in from Josh at Tail End Customs. Tail End Customs is a custom metric motorbike shop in league city, texas (outside houston) that’s been building some wicked honda and yamaha choppers and bobbers for five years. The ...

discovered this today whilst d*cking around on the internet. not sure about the part where the vid says “purchase is by invitation only” and then their email appears telling the viewer to “express interest.” which is it? f**k off and ...

one day the builder of this bike, josh from tail end customs, thought to himself, “self, how can i make a bloated yamaha v-star look cool?” it didn’t take long for ideas to start flowing. i told him not to ...

yamaha v-star 650 chopper built by uptown customs. some dude’s honda cb550 bobber: honda cb350 bobber by “coop’s chop shop.” can’t find a website but the paint makes one think it’s the artist coop, who can be found here. Get ...

Blue Collar Bobbers has nifty kits to turn your metric motorcycle into a bobber. If you can wrench a little, for about $1,600 (for the kit you see below) you can turn your ho-hum cruiser into a pretty slick little ...