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 ...
Read More »yamaha sr400 – 35th anniversary edition and history
Once upon a time in 1978, Yamaha launched a new motorcycle called the SR400. From its very roots this bike was already a throwback to years gone by. In an era where multi-cylinder engines were the new standard, the SR400 ...
Read More »custom yamaha sr400 bobber | mark huang | new pics
Here’s an update – new shots of mark huang’s custom Yamaha SR400 bobber. Built by Mark Huang and painted by his friend, Jeffrey Chang out in Taiwan, we still don’t know much about this build. Check out the original custom ...
Read More »what would you rather wednesday winner
This week saw the first ever WWYRW, or what would you rather wednesday. We looked at a handful of bikes built by the wild he-man woman-haters Busch Brothers. Ok, they aren’t actually woman haters, I’m not even sure they’re brothers. ...
Read More »what would you rather wednesday: busch brothers showdown
Introducing the first WWYRW: What Would you rather? Wednesday?! The idea’s pretty simple: We take a look at some fly bikerMetric custom metric bobbers, choppers, cafe racers, or other motorcycle related goodness. I pick a theme, you decide which one reigns supreme. ...
Read More »yamaha xs650 chopper | busch & busch
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 ...
Read More »r.i.p. evel knievel
5 years ago… R.I.P. Evel Knievel We all know Evel and the XR-750 went hand in hand, but he rode plenty of metrics as well. From Wikipedia: Knievel briefly used a Honda 350cc motorcycle, using it to jump a crate ...
Read More »triumph bonneville 750t140 | jtbrothers
bikerMetric‘s first post about JTbrothers was a sweet Yamaha XS that the two brothers from Belgium put together. The custom motorcycle build was really meant to be a practice build for a Triumph project, and bM thinks it was a ...
Read More »kawasaki kz200 | dariztdesign
Faiz Darizt is no stranger to bikerMetric. He’s as much a fan of bM as I am of his work. Trent said it best in his last April Fools Day post: “the brothers at dariztdesign are self-taught and spend countless ...
Read More »yamaha xs 650se | jtbrothers
Meet Johan and Joris Theybers from Belgium. They go by the name JTbrothers. Joris, the younger brother, was bit by the motorcycle bug on a young age and a lifelong motocross rider. One day, destiny came knocking on Joris’ door ...
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