Tag Archives: yamaha

“I’ll stab you in the face!” Not really. That was a drunk in the street this afternoon. We were drinking, too. He was yelling at nobody on the corner as I was walking by with the woman who inexplicably loves ...

Hey guys, I’d like to introduce you all to Chris from Limeybikes here in Austin. Matt hooked me up with him and he’ll be doing some mechanical work on the Freedom or Death Machine. Chris probably wouldn’t consider himself an ...

There are dudes in Alabama building some hardcore bobbers and choppers with metric motors called Garage Company Customs, Inc. They made me put down my beer when I saw their XS650 build, the Flat Cracker. It was one of those ...

The custom motorcycle industry is filled with characters. Strong personality quirks are inherent in the desire to build and ride on two wheels with as little as possible to interfere between you and the world. It wasn’t that Evel Knievel ...

This was Yamaha’s first motorcycle; the YA-1. The first, built in August of 1954, was a 125cc two-stroke single with a four-speed that quickly became renowned as being a fast and agile bike. The YA-1 had a simple form, copied ...

Visit Joe King Speed Shop to see more for yourself. He specializes in outlaw helmets that for the most part keep the man off your back. The shells are about 75% of the size of other well-known non-DOT lids and ...

Starting this post with the symbol of wholeness, transformation, balance, and self-sufficiency was a good idea, I thought, believing those are concepts bikerMetric readers would understand and appreciate. I’m just a beer drinking biker poet with Adobe CS4. OFFENSIVE JOKE ...

More pix from Austin: That last photo is from the Japanese shop Reynal. Here is their blog in Google Translate form. Finished the interview with Jon Ard of Ardcore Choppers. Man, that guy is a hoot. You want an opinion? ...

Dudes. Slammed. Just pix tonight. Yoinked from KustomKing. A leaky old Royal Enfield bobber off Sixth street in Austin. . . . A bevy of babes. . . . . . . Some **** I threw together for your eyeball ...

Sent some money to Jeff last Thursday and on Sunday he took off in his blue El Camino to score our 1979 Yamaha XS650 for $850. Dig this exhaust. Seems they only made them with this Gatling gun design for ...