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Here is an email I received from Jeff late last night: OK dude, just home from Chris’s at 12am. First time to sit today at ‘puter. Here’s what I can scrounge from my last burnt brain cell. The bars I ...

All right. As you could see from the photo in the post below, last night Jeff notched the bottom of the tanks to “get them down over the motor a bit so their tops would be more in line with ...

Jeff worked until the wee hours of the morning and did a lot with the frame, seat, tanks and front end. At 4AM he sent some photos of what he’s done so far. I’ll post a build piece later this ...

The proportions of the XS front hoop are very different then what Jeff is used to on his Brit bikes. The rear tube of the front hoop on a Brit is far back behind the motor, whereas the XS is ...

Jeff started hacking away at the frame today. Here’s a pic: At that point, he hacked off the front…   >> Get the best of bikerMetric directly in your inbox, once a week, every week. Email *

Good morning metric dudes. If this is your first visit to bikerMetric, please look around, click the reaction buttons and leave a comment or two. Thanks! Besides all the tedious re-posting I’ve got to accomplish this week, we’ll be posting ...

All right. Got an email and a comment today from this guy: He just built a gorgeous bike with a sidecar using a 242cc thumper that looks like it’s a vertical bevel drive, shaft-driven valvetrain, but actually has two pushrods ...

Excellent! Gabe at After Hours Choppers is donating a pair of his flat trackers brass risers for the Freedom or Death machine. I couldn’t be more excited. Thanks, Gabe! Thanks to everyone everywhere who has thrown up the poster I ...

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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 ...