bikerMetric | metric xs650 bobbers, choppers, cafe racers, custom parts and accessories

introducing REKEDGE INDUSTRIES [and a secret sale]

2012-06-02T22:22:00.006-05:00

what the hell is REKEDGE INDUSTRIES, you are probably not asking? well, it's what i have to do. bikerMetric has been fun, but it isn't the place to sell cutting-edge motorcycle parts. i could probably sell a ton of t-shirts, as i did when i sold a couple hundred stickers in two months, but biker apparel and stickers are one thing. many think bikerMetric junkie foot pegs are not made to exacting specifications and are instead the product of a drunken poet blogger.

here is a clue: i do not drink as much as you think (any more). it's the image i present. some of you know me to be a demanding, perfectionist asshole. that's the truth. that's the parts i am manufacturing. that's how the final stickers were made. that's how my new apparel will be, as well as much more to come as the year progresses. nothing will be made or sold by someone you think is a rambling drunkard.

just as many share build pix and info of their metric bobbers and choppers in progress, i've shared the process of making something nobody thought of before. there is no difference, and it certainly does not mean i'm loaded so shit got fucked up the first time. it's been a long road to find a competent machine company. many have lied and some have tried, but none were good enough.

now we have found the proper shop and it is time to have a proper brand. god bless bikerMetric, it's been a blast, but this is not the place to sell the pegs, much less the grips, risers, xs650 engine covers and much more we will unveil.

REKEDGE INDUSTRIES is where they will reside and they will be branded with the RI logo you see at the top of this page.

there is too much opportunity to be had out there (even in a tight economy that i do not believe will get better until we experience bloody revolution), than to be labeled as something that only works for a biker blog when world domination is my goal.

and the name REKEDGE INDUSTRIES reminds me of something out of the venture brothers.

bikerMetric will continue as it is for now, with bikes, beer and babes, but will change as it is absorbed into the a division of REKEDGE INDUSTRIES.

believe it or not, that will mean more killer bikes, babes, and beer. this place will live on.

the name was thought of by my partner/ho/kinky bitch/old lady/muse mate. she has ideas and talents and connections that will be reflected in REKEDGE INDUSTRIES. it will be a place for the "edgy," the "punk rock," the "fuck you, corporate man" type of person to find what they want at prices that will reflect our slogan, "WRECKING CORPORATE RETAIL." we will offer high-quality products at prices that are going to upset some competitors.

to commemorate this moment, we are offering the last batch of bM branded junkie foot pegs at a giant discount [$20 OFF PER PAIR - ONLY FROM THE BUTTONS BELOW] for the discerning collector of motorcycle history. we made less than two dozen pair of our junkie pegs and have one pair of all aluminum pegs (which will be discontinued permanently - friends and builders got what we made when we realized the brass was selling fast and these were not - contrast!) and two pair of blasted brass and aluminum. all are branded with our bM logo.

about strippers; we will be offering incredibly high quality exotic dancer, nightclub clothing and swimwear directly from the manufacturer. you love the hot babe at the rally wearing stripper shoes and bikini top but this is not your standard lingerie store stuff, it's high quality and we'll guarantee to beat the price of those very select few that carry this brand.

we are also making 100% natural dog treats. part of the proceeds of our badass barking brand will go to dog rescues nationwide.

in general, we are going to take care of the "little guy," whether he's a home-garage bike builder, a dog lover, a stripper, a single mom, or a couple who want something she isn't going to rip the second time she wears it. products by and from REKEDGE INDUSTRIES will be affordable even to those who simply want them for "the boudoir" or the motorbike.

speaking of boudoir; you are getting ripped of on all your "adult" toys. seriously. our stuff will be the same quality or better but at 25% less cost to you. if you don't have fun like that, then this is your last visit. thank you and buh-bye. we are not doing this for one market, we are doing this for all the angry, kinky, badass, beer-drinking bikers and betties who need a break, both from the norm and for their bank account.

and you thought anal plug-style risers were all we'd offer? REKEDGE INDUSTRIES is retail. redefined.

quit being such prudes. be radical. stick it to the corporate man with help from a corporation possessing a sense of responsibility to its customers.

yes, we are now incorporated but if i recall something william s. burroughs once wrote, the best way to get them is from the inside...

friday's post of cool stuff #82: shocking!

2012-06-01T22:47:00.004-05:00

jesus and motorcycles and beer and if you know what the second-to-last image is, you are a pervert.

thanks for coming by.

perverts.

show this to your boss monday morning and free yourself.

welcome new flipping nibble gyrators

2012-05-31T21:32:00.004-05:00

does the f come before the n? i do not know. fucking new guys or new fucking guys? whatever.

it's that time of the month again. time to welcome the noobs, the boobs, and the suckers who clicked the wrong button for some reason to read the metric madness contained within these pages on a regular basis.

first i would like to thank the dudes and dudettes who have purchased bikerMetric junkie foot pegs. they're made to fit xs650 mounts, and if you have trouble getting them on your honda, shave off the mounts and make something like this:

these were fabbed by james, the winner of the one-off spiderweb design foot pegs to fit on his honda cb750 bobber. right on, man.

we are investigating making a simple universal weld-on mount for you mofos if we can sell them for $5 or something cheap. you'll provide your own bolts, washers and nuts.

of course you'll provide the nuts. about nuts, here are the latest noobs who decided to "follow" this online world of custom metric bobbers, choppers, cafe racers, beer, pirates, babes, angry rants against the corporate man, dead bankers, and poetry.

ha! i'm making bikers read poetry. fags!

first up is speedg. speed was one of the old wastebook members who has followed about 100 of us to zurker. right the fuck on, man. here is a bike from one of the blogs he follows, sucka free since 1983:

interesting suspension. see the two shocks on the right and none on the left. would like to take that for a spin.

jcanspray is old bM fb member jason hickey, who has also come along to zurker. i won't give you his wastebook page, because fuck them, but here is his new zurker page. peace out, mofo! glard to have ye aboard. yar!

another old wastebook member is Elizabeth Mcdaniel, who is a great contributor on the pirate vessel that is now migrating to zurker. she is a good friend of my trusty mate, russ bowers, and has been an invaluable member by jumping to the new ship lollipop. thanks, wench!

coincidentally, another new "follower" is named Elizabeths_Ink and i think it may be the same wench as above. she believes we "have the right to bear arms, the right to worship, the right to speak our mind, and the right to pursue greatness." i dig it. she also says that "big government and big business destroys the little guy that busts his butt to make it," and that one should "speak your mind, live your convictions and look out for more than just your own hide." amen, sister. now.... when are you bringing the beer and boobies?

Lupo has a face i recall from somewhere. i cannot remember exactly. hmmm.... why do people propagate different names across different online websites, blogs, and all that? it isn't like your ip address or the cookies you never delete are not tracking you so fuck. use the same name so you can be recognized by people. the corporations and the government already know. and the more names you use, the more you become a suspect. read this if you don't believe me read this and this.

REVOLUTION.

maybe it's time for a beer (boobies come after i finish here).

Bruce T. Salindie is an arrogant motherfucker. he admits it. i like that. we need more of those around here. visit bruce's blog here. he prefers the pen over the the computer. dude. i dig. i prefer a 75-year old typewriter than this electronic shit. and if something big doesn't happen by the end of the year, i am done. back to beer, blowjobs, words on paper that appear the moment you press and hear the snap of the key hitting the paper, and being a pimp. living in a cathouse.

this is what i give up to write these words to you. assholes. you think being a pimp is easy? try it and get back to me.

so far, it's easier than pretending to know about custom metric motorcycles and how to sell innovative and exacting parts. seems one day i'm cool and the next i am "competition."

it's because my idea kicks your ass and instead of making a few bucks re-selling, you're trying to put me out of business.

you want what i have for yourself? fuck you. even if i quit in six months, everybody will know you stole it.

here, read a poem.

now for the spies. the entities who signed up and left no image. no logo. no picture. these are the "followers" i distrust.

Toast Kustom, i like my toast with butter and a bit of sugar and cinnamon on top. can you do that?

Tracy Kennedy, thumbhammer and John Savoie follow this blog only and are obviously spies. there is too much out there for this to be the only biker blog they dig. unless you like poetry. as for Darren Morton, he isn't into custom metric motorbikes. he is into porn and i was icked-out after ten seconds on his blog.

peace out, mofos. here is another from sucka free. punk kids. stay off my lawn.

but enjoy yours.

bikers can't tell this sucks

2012-05-30T22:31:00.002-05:00

to be judged by a coke addict
having been one
to be judged by the cheater
having been one
to be judged by the liar
having been one
having been judged by the biker
i am not one
and it does not stop the judgement
by the priest the politician the secret ops man
who has been all of these things i am
but i don't kill
yet

judged

by the corporate man
the jealous man
the careless man
the cop

the woman who gets my soul says something about god
and makes me contemplate

to be judged by you
as if you know the truth
as you are my pounding heart
as if you think my electric thought
understand my anger
or prayed for
anybody
ever
and watched a miracle happen

to be judged by you
makes me wonder what the sound of the cosmos makes
when it laughs.

techTips - xs650 mikuni carburetor and parts manual

2012-05-30T17:27:00.002-05:00

been busy with the real world, folks. found this and thought it might be cool for some of you to save and use. it's a complete mikuni carburetor and parts manual from 1975.

click the image below to read and/or download the 33-page manual:

xs650 chopper | keith hill

2012-05-28T16:39:00.000-05:00

found a nice little site with well-written pieces at driven daily today. this bike was build by a guy named keith hill.

after doing a little searching, i could find no website or blog for the builder but will let you know he likes to build choppers that are "loud as hell death machines that piss people off." way to go.

since i do not wish to plagiarize jesse at driven daily, i'll simply hip you guys to the cool site, post a few photos of this clean and killer xs650 chopper, and send you to the page where you can discover more about it and the builder.

don't like to read?

2012-05-28T13:19:00.002-05:00

then simply gaze at all our purty picytures on pinterest.

the declaration of re-independence

2012-05-27T22:15:00.003-05:00

This first appeared here many months ago, and has since been edited. I started a "Declaration of Re-Independence" flakebook page that had over 400 "signatures" to it, but a week ago fb deleted it. There were no cameltoes, no nudity, and only serious discussion. It was one of many reasons I've deleted my fb profile, the bM group, and left wastebook for good, and for something much better.

Therefore, for now, here it is. Comment below if you are one of the few who can read for more than 30 seconds at a time and think the way things are going lead to one thing: dead bankers and their puppets >>

+ + +

Welcome to what many believe is the most important issue in the world today. If you have read the Declaration of Independence, you may wonder what was edited from the original in my "Re-Declaration" below. The answer is, "not much." I changed references to "the King" to "The President," blaming him (or her some day) and modified a few sentences to suit our tumultuous times while completely deleting only one (a reference to Native Americans as "savages").

Do not forget a reactionary Congress and the bureaucratic lackeys that do what they are told, not what our Constitution states clearly. Most follow. If you read this, you must lead.

This not about Obama. It started with the "Patriot" Act and probably long before that.

If you don't like the way things have been or where they are going, wherever you are, your Parliaments and your Prime Ministers are corrupt and this applies to you. The entire "free" world is being controlled by corporations, bankers and a war machine, not it's citizens.

Please be sure to comment if you dig it, and share this on you blogs, walls, zurks, and tweets for your friends. The world is invited.

In America, don't be fooled by the distracting theater of Democrat vs. Republican. They are two faces of the same corrupt machine, and it should be obvious to anybody who can think independently. The same is true in countries throughout the world. The system is broken and we must stop pretending it isn't.

2012 is The Year of Reckoning and we only have our apathetic selves to blame for what is and what will be. You wanted change? Here it is. Do not falter humankind. Lay your name out for all to see.

Let us collectively stand and loudly tell our governments that stealing from the working man and woman is a very bad idea. When enough people read and sign here, we will be noticed. The media's meme of "they don't have a specific agenda" will become "Freedom or Death" and "Join or become Corporate Slaves." All the world will take notice of these accusations and publicize our demand for equality and liberty for all.

We work too hard to be thankful for a polluted and dying planet upon which a handful of families gain more wealth and power as they demand we accept less and less for our labors. No HDTV or pickup truck is enough to soothe the yearning for liberty. We are not thankful for the fraction we earn today compared to ten years ago while our wages are garnished by bankers to pay off their morally bankrupt ideas of "democracy" and "capitalism."

The Declaration below absolves us from having to pay the debts of decomposing governments. We shall plant trees of life upon the decay of antiquated concepts they have manipulated to use against us as we develop our own shelter from greed. If we cared about one another, how hard would it be to care for ourselves?

"Survival of the fittest" is an excuse for cruelty. Are we not all brothers and sisters, made of the same star dust?

As the author of the original Declaration wrote in 1787; "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it's natural manure."

Here is your seed. There are enough of them for everyone. Patriots challenge authority, they do not bow blindly before it.

Thank you all, and may Divine Providence shine upon our endeavor with mercy and favor to create a Free World for all.

Trent Reker

THE RE-DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE:

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these States; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present United States is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

The President has refused his to assent to Constitutional Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

The President has forbidden it's Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation until their assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, hey have utterly neglected to attend to them.

The President has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

The President has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with their measures.

The President has dissolved Honest Elections repeatedly, for opposing their invasions on the rights of the people.

The President has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

The President has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

The President has endeavored to prevent the People from just and fair pay for their labors, in favor of economic warfare which favors the wishes of the wealthiest of Corporations over the needs of the People.

The President has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing their Assent to Constitutional Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

The President has made Judges dependent on their Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

The President has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people as we travel from state-to-state, as well as to other nations.

The President has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our Legislatures and our People.

The President has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

The President has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving their Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

+ For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.

+ For protecting them, by a mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.

+ For cutting off our ability to fairly trade with all parts of the world.

+ For imposing taxes on us, and not on the wealthiest of corporations, without our consent.

+ For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury.

+ For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses.

+ For abolishing the free System of American Laws, our Bill of Rights and Constitution, establishing therein an Arbitrary Government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these States.

+ For taking away our Rights, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Constitutionally Intended Form of our Government.

+ For suspending our own Legislatures in favor of Corporate Interest, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

The President has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

The President has allowed corporations to plunder our seas, ravage our coasts, flood our towns, and destroy the lives of our people.

The President is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty & treason scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy of the President of a civilized nation.

The President has with pathological determination, psychologically constrained our fellow citizens to be taken captive in these United States, as well as foreign nations, to bear arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by the hands of secret offices of the Federal Government.

The President has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our nation against their own countrymen, seeking an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these oppressions We have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A President whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Federal Government. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have reminded them of the Rights granted us by our Constitution. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, and Friends in Peace.

We, therefore, the Citizens of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these States, solemnly publish and declare that these United States are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the United States Federal Government, its Congress and President, and that all political connection between them and private corporations is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. For the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor.

get your xs650 bobber, chopper or cafe racer footpegs here

2012-05-27T20:03:00.002-05:00

dislike having to hammer this every week but i was unhappy with how the sleeves looked on our innovative foot peg design.

so we went and found another shop where we paid a six pack of beer to get them right. now that's what i call "business!"

therefore, i present you with two pieces of propaganda where you can see the sandblasted finish and the deeper countersink so the screw recedes below the tip of the sleeve.

+ lifetime warranty.
+ new designs to choose from in the coming weeks and months.
+ keep the pegs, change the sleeves.
+ pay less money to change designs.

ka-BLAMMO!™

click on the images to see them quite a bit larger for detail.

peace out, mofos!

may is motorcycle safety awareness month

2012-05-27T14:35:00.000-05:00

i know it's almost over and i discovered the graphic below from last year, when an alert bikerMetric reader named robert duval sent it to me.

because i was traveling with the the bikerMetric Pimp & Ho Tour, i neglected to post it. here it is and it's important all year long.

for more information, check out this page on the national highway traffic safety administration.

peace out and ride safely, mofos.

bikerMetric on facebook has walked the plank

2012-05-26T21:50:00.001-05:00

if you want to be part of the new group, click this link and discover the "STICK IT TO THE CORPORATE MAN" social network of the future.

now, the occasional bomb:

bikerMetric stickers on a ccw bobber

2012-05-26T12:47:00.003-05:00

got some crappy cell phone pix to share with you of bikerMetric stickers on a cleveland cyclewerks 250cc bobber. cool placements. thanks for the email, jason.

05.25.12

2012-05-25T22:01:00.003-05:00

for the world is more full of weeping that you can understand
i have been told
and i rage
i wish i could simply cry and get over it
i wish a beer or love would make it go away
the weeping that dwells inside of me
and you
maybe

it is not inescapable
a trip to the quarter
tattooed skin ripped off in a jar for sale
voodoo dolls and brass bands
it is remembered
how so many are extending their debt
how dreams today become tomorrow's nightmares
and i drink and drink and drink to sleep
and forget
until half way through my morning coffee

fucking coffee

where is my tobacco?

#fuckfacebook

2012-05-25T01:04:00.011-05:00

that seems to be a popular theme recently. i "favorited" 70 #fuckfacebook tweets that had been posted in the past 24 hours. there were more but some reasons sucked. if you understand how that works, for every #fuckfacebook, there are at least three more twatters who feel the same way and many more out there who do not tweet about it. how many others are simply leaving? i know many.

like i ~~did~~ tried.

have you visited the bikerMetric fb page lately? or my own page? be prepared. since i found i could not delete these pages fast enough, i posted a ton of incredibly pornographic images and told "facebook" to delete my profile or i'd keep coming back to do it again.

i nuked 900 "friends" with hardcore porn, and 900 more bikerMetric group members. there were a couple of other pages that i found facebook deleted on their own in the past week, such as my "world domination" and "declaration of re-independence" pages, which saved me the trouble.

the corporate fucking whores. what was wrong with the declaration? that was what made me go ballistic with porn. "fuck you facebook," i muttered.

i deleted every image, changed/deleted all the info on my profile that i could, and posted tons of hardcore fucking.

everybody who ordered gets shipping confirmation tomorrow

i have either ruined my reputation or shown you how to stick to those who stick it to you with a lie for the ability to post a giant self-gratifying image of yourself or your company at the top of a page.

don't be such easily-manipulated suckers. stick it to the corporate man or become the cattle led to the slaughterhouse. stick around there and see. you have my word you will regret it. i have enjoyed the past week of not being there. my life feels more peaceful. it's amazing.

i deleted every member of the bikerMetric group, and made it so only admins could post, which would be me. i deleted my other two admins to save them. since the bikerMetric group could not be deleted. as for the rest of you, please do not take it personally. i told you i was going to blow things up over there a week ago. i did.

that leaves a group where there were 900 members, but only a few dozen regular contributors, who need to get their bM groove on. i have two solutions.

1. follow this site and comment. ask questions. find answers. i will take a small army of faithful believers against the largest military in the world who really don't care past what they are paid because they know they're mercenaries for the corporations, whatever flag they carry.
2. click this link and become part of something where it's 18+ (not 13 like fb), where there are no advertisements, where your info is owned by you and not sold to anybody or anything for any reason, and you can actually own a part of the company simply by bringing friends over.

i spent years saying "no" to facebook and twitter, thinking they would rob me of time and deliver little. so far, i was right. back then i was too busy providing content on bikerMetric and much time was wasted for approximately 2.5% of the readers who clicked over from fb.

that's 1,200 readers less i'll get. supposedly. and i don't care.

now that the wasted time in the land of invasion of privicy is out of my life, i'll have more time to do what is right, and make the best custom motorcycle parts in the world, post more cool metric bobbers, choppers, cafe racers and more while reminding you that corporate america is the start of a revolution within which we must kill, or be indefinitely detained/killed by if we speak our minds, marching to the beat of our personal truths.

one of mine is is: fuck you, corporate whores. your soft flesh will taste sweet over an open fire.

now, for something i aspire to be:

the silent treatment

2012-05-24T00:34:00.003-05:00

if the text is too small, click the image to read the best poem i've written since the last time i forgot because i was drinking.

remember:

post #81 of the unexpected | untitled motorcycles t-shirt

2012-05-23T11:58:00.001-05:00

i've been hard on these guys. they'd post in the old bM wastebook group and it was always about what they had for sale. i'd reply that this wasn't a place for them to promote their products and leave. it was about community; which meant sharing - and asking for - information about bikes, beer, strippers, sandwiches, and pirate talk. we only had 900 members, but some folks would come in and use it as a place to promote their stuff with a link only and leave. that made me want to charge for advertising. instead, i'd have them walk the plank and ban them from the group.

but i gave untitled a few chances. i don't know why i was so kind.

towards the end they seemed to get it. i don't know who does their internet stuff, there are three that run their shop in london, but they sometimes post cool crap on twitter which i re-tweet.

one day a message came through asking for my address and what size shirt i wear so they could send one of their limited edition t-shirts. i was going to get one of only 55.

free stuff? hell yeah. i haven't been able to afford to buy a shirt since the beginning of february and even then it was only $6 at jc penney. before then, it had been two years since i bought a shirt of any kind. i've been living in the three shirts falcon motorcycles sent me last year. seems those have become rare, too, as they are no longer making the same prints. i should probably save one in a box and sell it for $200 in ten years but they're much too comfortable. i'll wear them out.

plus, $200 in a decade will probably only buy a six pack of miller. enjoy what you have, man.

back to untitled:

i shot my address back and about a week later, this shirt arrived.

it's heavy duty, 100% cotton. perfect for wearing under your leather jacket on a brisk summer afternoon in london. or a cool autumn evening in new orleans.... the print is clean and cool and i'm going to wear the shit out of it. thanks, folks!

be sure to check out untitled motorcycles and see the clean bikes they build. they make mostly beemers, but just finished a nice kz1000 all the big sites are falling over themselves for.

meanwhile, i'll be waiting for the next garage builder to email some cell phone pix with promises of beer should i ever visit his town....

free zombie performance burrito style handlebars: the winner...

2012-05-22T14:54:00.004-05:00

jed kemsley!

(the crowd goes wild as confetti made of the sun dried hearts of forgotten gerbils falls and a band playing kazoos jumps out of a lemon meringue pie and plays "stealing people's mail" by the dead kennedys)

there are a few reasons why toast won but first and foremost, i believed him. here is what he wrote:

well hells bells; i was gonna write a long ass quasi-amusing story but topping whats already been done would be hard--ya'll should have a prize for most fantastic rambling stream of conciousness tales of woe.. luckily i know the captain of our ship isn't so easily swayed by sob stories, brown-nosing, etc.. (except maybe beer & po' boys) so like a modern ishmael i think i'll harpoon this bitch with honesty like the elusive moby dick.. i've got a 1980 XS650 that i'm transformimg into a tracker/brat/cafe type bike.. now i know exactly how it looks in my head, i've done tons of "inspirtational research" but i'm finding transforming the masterpiece in my head from the doner bike to the finished project is easier daid then done.. especially since i'm building it outside in my yard under a ghetto carport with limited handtools & an even more limited budget.. now i know most of us are in the same boat: even those with nice shops/garages & tools are hurting for cash & doing as much as possible ourselves on the cheap. my situation is not that unique: barely able to pay rent on my shack & keep the power on, livin' on ramen noodles, taking less showers (my old ladys stoked on that) to save on water bills, etc.. like my peers i spend every doller i can scrape together on consumable materials & bike parts & make as much myself as possible given my tools & skill set.. in other words, the build is going slow. i was hoping to be riding by now but up here in the p.n.w. we only get maybe 4 mo's of good weather & since i'm working outside this is prime build time.. i even quit my 20 yr pack a day tobacco jones so i could save that loot. yeah, it sucks but speaking of "sticking it to the corprate man" those suits in big tobacco industry can kiss my lily white ass. i know i'm rambling but i had to quit taking my a.d.d. meds too, as u may have guessed..haha please bear with me. so yeah the xs motor is a sprong runner, i'm sticking with the stock swingarm frame, i need new fork tubes or a whole differant front end, new shocks(which i can't make), new seat(which i can), haven't figured out lights but gonna keep the electrical system as simple as possible, wiring, new lith sealed battery, doing paint/powder myself, oh yeah & most importantly new bars & hand controls.. i would be so stoked to win these bars; the burrito bars are the coolest bars i've seen so far from steffan for a tracker/brat style bike.. his chopper bars are sick but these would be perfect for the stance/riding position on the upright riding position: they have a similershape as tracker/mx bars, only even cooler with the crossbar & extra height & pullback. sick. so yeah they'll go perfect with a set of B.M. Junkie pegs in my mid mount XS brackets..haha ok well thats about it; good luck to everyone & thanks to steffan & trent for the giveaway.. oh yeah if i win steffan shipping will be cheap cuz i live one state noth of zombie performance..plus the beer will flow like water in nola & roseburg..haha thanks brothas f.t.w., jed k.

others, most notably wokka, wrote incredibly humorous tales of why they needed these bars, but i was turned off that he went to an avenged sevenfold concert. aren't you supposed to get a sloppy and energetic blowjob for that? as for the fish story.... really? shipping and getting banned from facebook? hey man, you chose to live in a nation ruled by the restrictive religious laws of a monarchy for money. don't be a corporate man and stick your hand out for a freebie!

it was all complete fabrication. a nice story which made me laugh, but the winner told the truth.

regarding the rest of you, i just couldn't bear to give them to someone who had never eaten a burrito. that's like never eating haggis!

and that was the point of the giveaway; steffan from zombie and i want to support a man with mental issues who quit smoking after 20 years to help afford parts and is building his machine outside in a carport.

that is what bikerMetric is all about. it isn't just slapping on new bars because yours suck, or because your earmuffs hurt (wear plugs like an aural whore), definitely not when you didn't leave your email address, and "backspace.hehe@yahoo" seemed fake, so toast gets some warm butter and jelly....

brand new zombie performance burrito bars!

i'll put you in touch with steffan, jed. let him know your specifications and he'll get to making the bars right away, man. all you gotta do is send me a picture or three when you get them.

peace out, metric mofos. thanks for the responses and please congratulate jed for a bit of good fortune he surely deserves.

thought of the day | fuck that shit

2012-05-22T01:43:00.001-05:00

1965 bsa "beezerker" by speed shop design for sale

2012-05-21T11:56:00.001-05:00

every once in a while i ring up somebody who builds bikes you have heard about. one of those folks is chris flechtner of speed shop design. we became acquainted when i interviewed him at the end of 2010. you should check it out if you haven't for a lot of insight into the guy who makes incredible motorbikes. since then, we've had a few phone calls, i - and those who read bikerMetric - saved him $1,600, and he and i have traded many an email.

last night i rang but got his voicemail. fucker. a few hours later he emailed to state he was slammed and was selling his most famous creation, the beezerker:

damn, i wish i could buy it.

the motor is a 1965 BSA 650cc. it's the most killer cafe racer ever created and took over 1,000 hours to build. also, chris is selling it.

according to him, the past two years have been amazing thanks to the impact the bike has had on the motorcycle and design world. indeed. it's a large piece of custom motorcycle history, and even more important in the history of british 650 twins.

check out a lot more photos, including magazine spread scans and more here on ebay.

don't think for a second it isn't worth what he's asking. bM is largely about the inexpensive garage custom, but if you divide that price by the amount of hours it took to build you'll discover a freaking bargain.

meanwhile, back at speed shop, chris has been making slow but sure progress with his 900ss ducati build. here are a couple of peeks at the front end:

quotes from philosophers who knew

2012-05-21T01:00:00.001-05:00

"you do not become a 'dissident' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. you are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. you are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. it begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society... his actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost."

- vaclav havel

"revolt is the only acceptable definition of the moral life."

- albert camus

here. have a motorbike:

honda 90 super cub chopper by psyclooz

2012-05-19T20:06:00.001-05:00

found on one of my favorite blogs, chalopy. he has a brief description of this bike, called "molly-k," and one photo. i do not think the exhaust is that big of a deal as he thinks, but i'd scrape the sticker off it.

i went to the source, psyclooz, and snagged a few more images. dig 'em:

and my favorite. the footpegs are turn signals.

friday's post of cool stuff #81: moving on

2012-05-18T21:51:00.015-05:00

it is american craft beer week, and i am drinking T U R B O D O G. i cannot afford it, but in support of good beer, and getting sick of olde english, i have no choice.

which leads to this seemingly non-sequitur:

it's true. have you watched or participated in a jazz brass band playing a second line for a dead man dancing for blocks as everybody laughs and drinks and the casket gets buried behind the glory of being transformed beyond this petty world?

well then, you should.

they happen everywhere in new orleans. all the time. on my street. because people die.

the police help by blocking intersections as the party parade passes peacefully by.

please do this for me. burn me and scatter my ashes across the streets of new orleans as you sing and dance. no casket. i doubt i will be able to afford to be buried above ground.

do things or die.

suddenly the non-sequitur is making sense....

yes, it is true. bikerMetric and myself will be outta facebook come six more days. i have discovered an interesting alternative that should allow me to keep the very happening bM fb page alive. still, there are consequences.

1a. you have to sign up for one more fucking thing.
1b. leave facebook and it's no problem.

2. the site is small today but has many benefits over wastebook, such as ownership of your own content, democratic rule, 18+ only, and (excuse me, the TURBODOG was calling) privacy.

3. your stuff is not sold to corporations for money. your activity generates worth and you own it and get shares for it. one day it will be an ipo. until then, fuck facebook. if it turns out to be worth nothing, fuck facebook, anyway.

4. there is much more to learn.... it is where the world and those online are going. please accept my invitation to join and fuck facebook, their billionaire brat owner, the children and foreign slave laborers who censor us, the random bans, the overseas jobs instead of american jobs, and did i clearly state fuck you, facebook?

yes. i think so.

now for more cool stuff!

i'd like to tell you where you can get something like this, but it was in my "use later" file and i have stuff in there that is a year old. and i was probably drinking. and i probably didn't care. if you know who made this, there is a comment link below.

i am gonna be a bigshot asshole motherfucker and you can walk into my shop any time. when i take you to my office to offer you a beer, there will be five things on my desk. that skull will be one of them. yeah.

it feels like poetry corner but am not so inspired. dreaming of business is not like fucking a great cocksucker as you kiss. drinking T U R B O D O G makes me happy and ususally i get agro on a friday post. not so today. it's nice to have a good beer for once. praise god.

so peace out. love each other. forgive the douche in the bmw who cut you off without a signal and move on. eat cheese with a pitchfork. stick it to the corporate man. love your dog with treats and walks and rides with the window down in the rain. create stuff. pray to be forgiven.

and you thought i'd end like that.

are you as sick of this crap as i am? you know how we got out of the great depression (which you should not fool yourself into believing we are not dealing with today)? we spent money and created stuff. great monuments to engineering began such as the hoover dam.

then we went to war. that sealed it. it was the last war that needed to be fought. everything since has been a lie.

today it's about the military-industrial complex, which siphons all the profit to their corporations and leaves nothing to the american worker and our nation. tax breaks for war machine companies. "austerity" for those of us who built this nation or are decedents of those who did.

give me a government labor job with benefits right fucking now and provide housing as they did then. i'm in. at least i'd have enough money to pursue motorcycle parts manufacturing instead of buying a home and a car and become a consumer. at least i'd have the ability to become my own man, not somebody else's. forever.

don't make me post the same links again. and new ones. you trust my word or you don't after all this time.

ever open the obama birth certificate the white house offered a year ago but you can't find now? i downloaded it last april when the obama administration was making a big stink about how he was born in hawaii. hey, you design geeks! open it. tell me what is interesting about it...

here.

good night.

ready? set? robot-pirate-ninja-monkey-zombie!

zombie and ninja is greater than pirate? NO FUCKING WAY.

custom suzuki sp370 | shed built bikes

2012-05-17T13:02:00.002-05:00

one of the blogs i visit when i have a chance is run by a dude from holland named michiel. he had a cool bmw cafe-oriented blog that often showed many other bikes built by his hands, that he photographed, or simply struck his fancy. i went to see what he was up to yesterday and found he got off blogger and moved to a slick new site at shedbuiltbikes.com. i was going through the projects he'd built and found something i had never seen before.

a suzuki sp370 that i guess is a cafe but also looks like a street tracker. i like it because it's hard to classify and has some nifty details.

i wrote michiel and asked if he'd mind sending some pix and info about the bike, to which he replied, "thanks for you interest! you've got a great website going on. i can relate to quite a lot of your political ideas. it would be great to see my little sp on there."

so here it is, man. thanks for the compliment. it's nice to know i'm not the only one and i need to get off blogger and onto wordpress, too! congratulations on your move. i dig your new site a lot.

michiel told me he is "a bit addcited to working on bikes," but as a student, his budget is always extremely tight. when he got the opportunity to buy the 1978 suzuki sp370 four-stroke single, he didn't hesitate. he also wrote that he prefers to build choppers, but cafe racers are very fun to ride. this bike was intended to be a little thing to scoot around town.

everything on the bike is extremely low (or no) budget. michiel used parts he found in home supply stores and "found" materials, including a salad bowl for the headlamp cowl. the housing for the speedometer is a stainless steel drinking cup, and the handlebar grip wrapping is from a tennis racquet.

he re-used old parts such as the handlebars he found somewhere, cut up, and re-welded. he also made his own parts such as the rear sets, the wiring loom and the exhaust, which i really like. michiel made it out of car exhausts he got for free from the dumpster of a local auto repair shop.

after the bike was done, he realized it was a bit small for even him to ride, as he is a relatively big guy, so he sold it shortly after it was built to buy a cb750 you can find here.

looking forward to your next "no/low budget build," man. thank you most sincerely for the photos and info.

leave facebook

2012-05-16T22:02:00.043-05:00

it seems i have a "friend" on facebook who likes to periodically report my "friends only" images which repeatedly get me banned. either that or i am on a list.

surprise!

here are the last two that were deemed "unacceptable:"

can nobody take a joke? or appreciate creativity? perky nipples under a shirt hiding impossibly large boobs? is it wrong to be weird? bad to be funny? sweeny todd would have your ~~head~~! teeth.

they were both posted on fb over a year and-a-half ago and nobody has complained about my pinterest pages.

somebody has time to waste(book) on their hands, and is a petty dark-souled bitch.

the official bikerMetric statement about these photos is, "if you don't like them, fuck you."

i don't do this for money. if i did you'd me making me a sandwich on your knees and your teeth would be in a cup.

facebook can be fun, but most often wastes my time, as it does yours, and generates a whopping 1 to 5% of the viewers who visit bikerMetric (depending on which analytic source i believe). with 45,000 viewers last month, no more than 2,200 came from facebook. so who cares. it does this while marketing to me by stealing my info and selling it to others.

i can eat that 1-to-5% and crap it out with no poop splash in the toilet. nice and easy as i read the paper.

so fuck you, facebook. i got along fine without you 18 months ago. when i return a week from today, i will post on my "timeline" after i delete all my images, that i will be gone, and the entire bikerMetric group will be deleted within minutes.

be sure to show up for that final post, and the images that will go along with it. they won't be there long.

for those of you who like the bM group and it's interactions, i apologize for your loss. a lot of people got exposure there and help, too. at one point we had over 900 members before i went on a cleansing purge after myself, and others, began to get "banned" by facebook. the group has 800 members now. this site gets almost twice that amount of viewers daily. therefore, you'd be better off - and will gain more exposure - to email me your custom bike builds, info and questions. i'll post and see what i can do to help.

where would you prefer to have your stuff seen, anyway? in front of 150 people a day or 1,500?

because of the hassle and waste of time, it makes no sense for me to remain on fb. i don't care to mess with it any longer. i do not need to be told what to do by some asshole in india making a dollar an hour paid by a billionaire prick in the usa who sells my "preferences" to corporations for profit. neither do you. so fuck you, zuckerberg. see you in the room we share in hell.

i've got a new host that offers a free setup of a nifty forum. maybe i'll do that for the mates of the mighty pirate ship we call bikerMetric. let me know if you'd like that. otherwise i have other things to do.

as for that one or ten loser "friends" who have their karma coming, what you do means so little, i don't even need to bother past this "stick it" post, which i like to do every once in a while, anyway.

here is where it's at. facebook is wastebook. it is the cia's bitch. it is the ultimate corporate whore. this was bound to happen. i called it weeks ago. somewhere. i don't care to research my past regarding predictions. it's the future i am concerned with.

to those of you who build bikes and only have wastebook pages, i will not promote you. do not email me. your "i just posted this on facebook" tweet will be ignored and eventually i will stop following you. get a lame blog like this, or even better, wordpress. post to your own blog, not facebook. get readers on your own site. get off the teat where they won't let you post what you really "like" and free yourself, your privacy, and your life from the inept waste of your time in the cell of the facebook corporate lie.

it's like buying made-in-china motorcycle parts from those who obfuscate with a sly "american made" company brand with 300% profit margins or me, making them in the usa and working my ass off to make it happen?

liberate your dreams from the liars and the thieves. rebel against the corporate overseas machine. we can do it all here. in the united states of america. and what you "like" and what you say is yours and yours alone.

that is my challenge to you all. leave facebook.

[UPDATE 05.17.12 -8:30PM CST]

see the photo below? if i put this in one of my "friends only" photo folders on facebook, i could get banned for a month. i found a better place. ironically through an anonymous group member on twitter.

here is a short list of why zurker is going to overtake facebook and why you want to be involved (besides knowing that is where bikerMetric is going to be and you'll miss the fb group when i nuke it a week from today):

+ zurker is owned by it's members, not some arrogant brat you'd like to knock the shit out of: that means you won't be "banned" for a photo you posted a 18 months ago because some hater or uptight cunt found the photo above offensive.

+ members will share in growth and profit: yes, it's early, but who would have thought five years ago that facebook would be worth billions of dollars? regardless, you own what you do, not some twit and his millionaire shareholders.

+ you have control over your privacy: what does that mean? it means this...

+ there is no advertising on zurker: because you are private, your info, your likes, and the groups you belong to are not sold to corporations who target you with links and spam email.

+ personal identity and business identities will be seperate: you'll know if you are dealing with trent reker or bikerMetric. there will soon be "entities" where we can have a group similar to what we had on facebook, but not worry if we show some t&a which some underpaid wanker overseas will be offended by and use as a reason to kick you off for a month.

+ better members: because zurker is a democratically-run entity, people there are more open, more educated, more liberated, and...

+ all members must be at least 18 years old: that's enough for me. no more punk kids on my fucking lawn! that's pg13 and what bikers want. are you sick of prudes? sick of corporate idealism? sick of CENSORSHIP? show us the giant back tattoo with a quarter-inch of ass crack and not get kicked out. what a concept.

+ i mentioned "democratic": while i ran a tight ship on fb, i was still under english rule, no matter how much of a pirate i wanted to be. my mates believed but what good am i when i am not there for a day or a week? now we be sailing t' the shores of 'merica where we find a war between the corporate man and the working man, between the "you don't need common welfare" and "give me an education if i work for it!"

it's actually everywhere. dublin. sydney. moscow. athens. madrid. berlin.

it's time to leave facebook, friends. it's time to make a profit on what you do online instead of having it robbed from you. it's time to liberate yourself and spend time where there are only adults, not children being protected from ass cracks they wear to school all fucking day long, anyway.

click this link and start something new.

and give me a week or three to get it rolling. remember your first day on wastebook? you figured it out soon enough. we'll have our old group happening, maybe smaller, but smarter.

reader rides | logan's 1982 honda cb900c chopper

2012-05-16T14:04:00.003-05:00

posted an image of this bike last night. here is the rest, all detail shots, sent by bikerMetric member TOOLS1:

this bike was at the all japanese show and swap meet put on by the kansas city chapter of the vintage japanese motorcycle club last weekend.

it's owned by a chap named logan adams and it started out as a 1982 honda cb900c. logan and a buddy hand-built the frame and converted the engine from shaft drive to chain as well as doing away with the "high/low" transmission.

when the cb900c was made, honda was trying to use as many cb750f parts as possible and had to couple a left side transmission output stub to a right side final drive. this called for complicated measures.

what the engineers at honda did was to add transfer gears, a jack shaft and a right-angle bevel drive in a housing that wraps around the left side and rear of the main transmission case, but it wasn't made inseparably. honda also doubled-up the transfer gears which occupy space originally taken by a sprocket and added more crap to give the cb900 a "two-speed secondary transmission."

while not a mechanic, i'd guess what the guys did was get rid of a bunch of excess crap and make a left-side chain drive from a right-side shaft. nice.

logan also made his own molds and cast the custom intake manifolds to fit two 48mm mikuni flat slide carburetors off "some unknown motorcycle of american origin." uh huh.

the tank is from a 1970 kawasaki h1. the front end and wheels were taken from a 2003 yamaha r6. logan also used a tail light stripped from a 1957 chevy and the name "lil' bastard" was created after logan discovered the vin number ended in 666.

lil' bastard, indeed.