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This is a simple public service announcement to hip you to nifty crud. Today’s nifty crud is brought to you by eBay. Dig these funky helmets. They’re all for sale right now. I want the Bambi helmet. How badass is ...

It’s Bullitt Theme Week on bikerMetric. First I put up my modified Japanese Bullitt poster background, then coincidentally discovered Chad Hodge’s “Bullitt” helmet, and while YouTubing for cool stuff to post, was reminded of this iconic car chase scene filmed ...

It’s that time again on bikerMetric where we celebrate the joy of giving in the name of our lord and savior… Just kidding. In the past couple of days we have gained new metric **** members. Hooray for alliteration. Public ...

Found this killer XT500 bobber that was built by a gentleman who calls himself Pugi. He lives “in the sticks” of Idaho. It’s 75% complete but it’s much too cool to wait and see what the next 25% looks like. ...

Amazing things happened last night. First, I was working on a print ad for a client and finished up around 1AM. Then I got an email from an old girlfriend who keeps in touch. She sent me this: early 1920’s ...

[UPDATE 02.29.12: it is apparent that elswick cycles are no longer in business. the sites who used to sell their products no longer do, their flakebook and blog pages haven’t been updated in a year, and i’ve heard a few ...

Here’s a 2000 Yamaha V-Star 650 bobber. A lot of frame work was done to the downtube, backbone and more. The manifold was custom made to accept a Keihin carburetor. The 1 3/4″ exhaust,  handlebars, coil/ignition mount, tailight mount, and ...

See this killer helmet? There is only one. The guy who designed it appropriately wrote to bubble visor and he wants to mass-produce them. Hopefully for a competitive/reasonable price but I guess that depends on who helps him make these. ...

All right guys. Leave a comment to this post and Jon at Monster Craftsman will enter you in a drawing to win a free chain tensioner. Any tensioner. Sprocket or skate wheel. Bolt on or weld. One-word comments won’t work. ...

I originally posted a couple of nice Victoria photos back in November, 2009. Victoria was a bicycle manufacturer founded in Nuremberg, Germany in 1886 that made motorbikes from 1901 until 1968. 1931 victoria kr50 In its early years Victoria used ...