Tag Archives: vintage bikes

this might not be news to you, but i’ve had these images for over four years and i dig this bike because it’s a vincent black shadow, so here it is: it was built by redneck engineering (with a redneck ...

a couple days ago i received an email from my friend frank from motart. his buddy franck samery had just released his first issue of bigbore magazine and he was wondering if i’d show his pal some lovin’. for mr. ...

once again, i tip my derby hat to my readers. you guys made a big impact with the “the bad hub i sold you isn’t my problem” post. it was the first instance of bikerMetric activism in our short history. ...

first, i’d like to thank cyril huze for posting a little thing about these bikes that got my gears going this morning. imme motorcycles were manufactured in germany between 1948 and 1956 by norbert riedel. during world war two he ...

nimbus motorcycles was a partnership between peder a. fisker and h.m. nielsen from copenhagen, denmark. the bike was a 750cc inline-four. the company was formed in 1905 to manufacture electric motors and in 1910 their “nilfisk” electric vacuum cleaner was ...

finally. first one is for arpad: asian chicks with automatic rifles…. wait…. the chick on the right is a dude! bet he puts the v in v-max! and finally, a babe on a bsa rocket. always leave ’em with a ...

back in june a fng named david became a bM follower. he was just starting on his budget bobber, a 1980 kawasaki kz400. in less than two months he got this far: then he stopped. what’s up, man? hope you’re ...

prometheus didn’t give us fire. he gave us money. discovered this today. paul posted it and got a few interesting responses. i’m interested in what you spazwagons think. i post and post and write the craziest thoughts sometimes but only ...

On Bromsgrove Street in Birmingham, England, James Lansdowne started his own business in 1898. The Norton Manufacturing Company specialized in making chains and other parts for the bicycle industry. In 1902 a man named Charles Garrard began to import French ...

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