Tag Archives: yamaha thumpers

since september has obviously become “tracker month” on bikerMetric, please accept this offering, a lone thumper which started its current life as an old and beat up yamaha sr500. once the builder, steve, gathered all parts he needed, he stripped ...

six weeks ago i posted about a build my friends at el solitario mc were constructing. today i got a message; they finished. they call it “the winning loser” and it’s the killer little 1989 yamaha sr250 you see here: ...

These pix were sent by a reader but we’re not sure exactly what motor is in it. Looks like a Yamaha TT-R125. Get the best of bikerMetric directly in your inbox, once a week, every week. Email *

Welcome jers cycles. He’s from Manila and it looks like he’s assembling cool 125cc bobbers. Check it out here, dudes and dudettes. Those little motors are the rage in the Far East. Thanks for coming over, jers! Vroom! Get the ...

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 ...

Whew. Bought a new laptop yesterday. It’s got a giant 17″ 16:9 monitor, 4MB of memory and a 500-gig hard drive. Been working for two days to make it do what I say. The b**ch. It’s learning who’s Daddy with ...