Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Another suprising milestone....

Took a look today at the site stats and noticed that the it's averaged just over one thousand hits a day for the last month (well few months really but it totaled out evenly this month). In my wildest dreams I never imagined it would ever get rolling like this. With all the reader contributions lately I feel like it's as much your site as mine. So keep em coming folks! And Thanks Again!

Reader Submittal. Honda Exotica. NSR250SP

I've got a few very regular contributors to the board and Mike Skelton is cementing himself as one of the best. Today he sends in this drippingly exotic Honda NSR 250 SP.Mike Writes:Steve,A friend that I have known for 30+ years emailed me and told me that he had sold his 1993 Honda NSR250SP on Ebay, one of 900 made. Originally a Japanese model only, somehow it got registered in the states years

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Need more than 500CC Motorcycles?

What a motorcycle that you need? 500cc Motorcycles? are you need more than 500cc Motorcycles? we are always looking for the best motorcycles, but you must to know that actually, we do not need a very fast motorcycle, if we only need the vehicle for our daily activities, 500cc motorcycles are actually more than enough, even a 250cc motorcycle that uses a more practical, yeah as like 250 ninja

Reader Ride.1966 Superhawk!

Thanks to John for sending in this beauty!

A Guzzi, a biplane and a snoring mechanic.

Monday, June 28, 2010

Reader Submittal. XS650 Cafe From Bogota.

Very Nice! He Writes:Hello my name is Camilo Pinzon Im a motorcycle designer from Bogota,Colombia, Im starting my business down here, Love cafe racers and bobbers this is my first proyect, hope you like it, I have more bikes will send you pictures soon.Thanks!

Wanderlust in the desert..

Ultra Rare Gillette Roadracer. Update #2

This is a direct copy of a post of a very unique bike from over on my 2-stroke biker blog. I found it interesting so I thought I'd put it up over here. I've googled and really not found much. What is this cool little bike?2nd update from a poster on ADV rider:I remember seeing this bike in a magazine in the early 80s. As I recall the frame is from a Gilera and the engine is made from 3

Friday, June 25, 2010

Best 3 Kawasaki Ninja ZX series

Kawasaki Ninja ZX series is the beautiful Motorcycles from Kawasaki, Kawasaki Ninja ZX come with great model and power, today, kawasaki has won some Motorcycles Award, yeah as like Kawasaki Ninja Zx 250, it's best beginner Motorcycles in some country as like in Europe. Now i want to share best 3 kawasaki ninja zx series, there is kawasaki ninja zx 250r, kawasaki ninja zx 6r, and kawasaki ninja zx

2010 Kawasaki D-Tracker 125 Specification - Kawasaki Motorcycles

Here they are... Kawasaki D-Tracker 125 Specification, the new line up from Kawasaki Motorcycles, come with little engine capacity, Kawasaki D-tracker 125 try to give more variant to all Kawasaki Lover, Kawasaki D-Tracker 125 powered by 125CC of engine displacement, i thing it's not to bad, if you feel that it's not comfortable with you, you can choose Kawasaki D-Tracker 250, okay here we go..

Bultaco Alpina!

Is anyone else having trouble seeing the photo?  It seems to be coming through fine an all my browsers.  Thanks. Thank You to Dogtown Cycles for this stunning Bultaco.One of my favs!

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Isle Of Man TT Race Videos. WOW!

Went looking for some new IOM vids and found this. Dim the lights. Turn up the volume LOUD and set it to full screen. Holy $#!t!!!

Update to Earlier Guzzi Post....

I received an e-mail in response to this post (2 posts down) from the builder to inform me...  Well here's what he wrote: Hi , Somebody placed my Guzzi on your blog as picture of the day. (ED: I found it on ADV Rider)Well that was a picture taken long ago..now it looks like this and its still a work in progress. We have steepend the headstock 2 degrees, Modified a 6 inch aprila wheel to 5,7

Fairly Radical XT600 Cafe Racer.

Saw this over on Ottonero. (please check him out). That thing is bitchin! Everyone who kicks areound with thumpres generall agree that these big singles are a freaking blast and as a DR650 owner this gives me expensive thoughts.

CX500 Cafe Racer. More proof that You don't Need Big $$ For A Cool Bike.

For more info on the build see this ADV Rider Post HEREThe Before Pic!

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Just Another Stunning Norton ...

While I'm NOT an authority I'd say this one looks very well sorted out with upgraded air filter, brakes, carb and no doubt ignition.

Tough Little Honda Cafe

Friday, June 18, 2010

Some World Ducati Weekend shots...

Found these on madadam desmo's gallery over on Picassa.  Fantastic Stuff!

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Cool KZ Cafe...

Reader Ride. A Serious XS 650 Hartail Custom.

Trentsent in some pics of a new custom build.  He writes:Hey Steve.  Big fan of MPOTD here.  We just finished the bike attached.  We call it The FREEDOM OR DEATH Machine.  It was built by jeff of saint motorbikes with a lot of help from folks from coast to coast.You can read a bit about the build on bikerMetric and if you have any questions, feel free to email any time.Thanks, Man! I like it!

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Wanderlust Reader Ride. Wow! I want to be in this shot one day.

Nate Sends in a few great roadtrip shots.He Writes:Here's a couple pics from my wife's and my trip through Oregon, California, Nevada and Arizona. Eight days, 2,810 miles and three hundred thousand dead bugs later. We got back home today. Here's one from the Grand Canyon and one from Route 66. The bike is my '05 Honda VTX 1800.Love your site!What a ride! Thanks Much for the pics!

Beautiful Honda 750 Four Super Sport

Friday, June 11, 2010

Italian. Ducati. Bevel. Desmo. Red. Cafe.... sigh...

Some KTM and BMW wanderlust!

Well alright! I think we're getting the hang of this! I had a chance to buy a nice GS/PD a while back and I'm still kicking myself for passing on it. Pics like this don't make me feel any better about it.. Tom where is that? Looks fantastic!One for your wanderlust series I like to call "HAZARDS MAY EXIST THAT ARE NOT MARKED"Thanks for the great web site!TomThanks for the great pics!

Some Reader Ride "Wanderlust" Shots.

I think I've hit a vein here. Judging by the response I'd say there's a lot of it going around!Paul and Aaron sent in these 2 great bikes and great shots!  Thanks gents!Paul's 2000 883 on a trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina with his son last year.......and Aaron's Triumph Trophy 900 at Lake Almanor in 2003.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Ural Sidecar Wanderlust...

I'm starting a new post tag under the word "wanderlust". I see a lot of great shots like this that are more about the journey than the motorcycle and I'm not going to pass them up anymore. What a great shot! Ural should use this picture in their ads... Oh and if you have any cool travel shots like this centered around a bike then please send them in! Preferably with a quick note on the trip/

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Another Honda Cafe from Reader Chris Sharon

Got another E-mail from him so I thought we'd double down in chris' bikes.  He Writes: Here is my second CB750F built. I called this bike Low Dough. Its much like the first CB750F I built but just in a different color scheme. The biggest difference is the KZ650 tail piece I used for the rear cowl along with a tucked under LED tail lightChris SharonKnuckle Busters MCSeattle Wa

Reader Ride, Stunner of a big bore CB Cafe.

Looks like it's leaning towards the Honda's this week!  Chris from Seattle sends in this beauty of build. He Writes: Good Morning, First off I love your site and love to see what the new bike of the day is. With that said I live in Seattle and am a member of a vintage motorcycle club called the Knuckle Busters http://kbmcseattle.com/  the love of old bikes and working on them brings us all

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Get Well Soon!! Valentino Rossi Out for 6 weeks!

Well that should suck the life out of GP for a few weeks... DAMM.

HA! From a local bike night.

Ape-hangers on a Bandit 1250? Ever get the feeling that some people wish they had a different brand or model of bike?

A friends Triumph Trophy Trail.

I didn't have the best camera but it gets enough across. Really sweet bike.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

250,000 hits! A Quarter of the way to a MILLION!

Some time today we had our 250,000'th hit.  I'm baffled beyond words that my little hobby has taken off like this. I sure hope you're enjoying reading it as much as I enjoy posting.Thanks to each and every one of you for stopping by! In a very real sense this is your board too since so many of my posts are now coming from the readers. Please keep em coming!

Another Excellent Virago Cafe Racer.

An earlier post of another Virago Cafe Racer is either the first or second most viewed post I have on the site according to the statistics so I figured that folks might enjoy this one as well.