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Gavels Down
Though the CRM team is, unfortunately, stuck here in frigid Pittsburgh this weekend, if you're anywhere near Las Vegas, you'll want to make a beeline to the South Point casino. That's where the Mecum Motorcycle Auction is going down. This is a veritable toy box of...
A Real Kick in the Starters
Leathers? Check. Cool helmet? Check. Kickstarter refusing to cooperate? Surely! Aging, as they say, is surely the ultimate humbling experience. I just left my doctor's office where I was unhappy to learn that, after nearly four decades of kickstarting motorcycles, my...
The Home Stretch
OK, the first successful kick-start of a newly completed custom bike project is one of life's great pleasures, but this photo illustrates another garage high of sorts. We've been working furiously on our 1967 Norton Atlas 750 project in recent weeks and we've made so...
Low Bars and High Performance
Perusing images from the past couple of tripe to London's Ace Cafe, we noticed how many riders across the Pond were building cafe racers equipped with handlebars that, well, let's just say will please the chiropractor community. It's rather impressive to see custom...
Hardasses Need Only Apply
Ah, 'twas but a few days before evidence of last week's post critiquing a new generation of cafe racer builders who favor designing rides that are basically intended to wow in custom shows instead of zoom along the roads began to roll in from readers. This is a prime...
Avoiding The Shark Tank
By now, the phrase jumping the shark has become common vernacular. It originated, folks say, in the wake of an old "Happy Days" TV episode where the series resident biker, Arthur Fonzarelli, jumped a Great White shark, a move so cheesy, many viewers and critics felt...





