Dreaming of restoring a vintage motorcycle? The difference between dream-come-true and living-nightmare comes down to what bike you pick. These four tips will help you succeed.
Read More »How To Get The Ownership of a Motorcycle With No Ownership
How do you replace the ownership for a motorcycle you don't own? What do you do when you've bought a motorcycle, only to get home and realize that it didn't come with an ownership? That's the situation I found myself in, so here's what I did.
Read More »Motorcycle Restoration Tips
The 30+ very best motorcycle restoration tips, from someone who's been through it. Read this if you're looking to restore a motorcycle for the first time.
Read More »Jay Leno’s 1929 Scott Flying Squirrel Motorcycle
Jay Leno shows us his 1929 Scott Flying Squirrel Race Replica vintage 500cc liquid-cooled two-stroke classic motorcycle. And yes, it goes faster than the Harley-Davidson Street 500 does today, despite being 90 years older.
Read More »Motorcycle Safety Rules from Honda… Circa 1962
This rare find shows just how far Honda translations have come. These translations come from a 1962 Honda Motorcycle manual, translated in Japan, for the American motorcyclist. They're awful. Brace yourselves.
Read More »1974 Norton Commando 850 Walkaround Clip
This Norton Commando 850 is a staple of british motorcycling, and represents one of the last of the famous British Twins. Here’s a walkaround video of it.
Read More »5 Motorcycle Movies They Couldn’t Get Away With Today
Society isn't what it used to be, and in a #MeToo era, here are 5 motorcycle movies they couldn't get away with today.
Read More »57 Years of Motorcycles (And Counting)
The Many Motorcycles of Michael Scott.
Michael Scott has owned many motorcycles in his 57+ years riding. Others have owned more motorcycles than him, but no one has had as much fun!
History of Skulls, Wings, and Motorcycling
Generally we like the feedback we get from the site. Unfortunately, we get some strange emails sent in sometimes too. Like the one that bicycle freak Michael K. sent us.
Michael has a website dedicated to his happiness of bicycle riding. This may or may not have something to do with why he can't seem to understand what skulls and wings have to do with motorcycling. He seemed to imply that the use of skulls and wings in the YouMotorcycle logo was "perhaps for your blog to appear "bad ass" enough to entice the "tattoo crowd"?"
Michael, the truth is about to set you free. Skulls and wings have as much to do with motorcycling, as squished manhood and one piece spandex unitards have to do with bicycling. In fact, skulls and wings have been tied to motorcycling for generations already. Allow me to explain...
Angels From Hell
Inspired by bikerMetric I decided to take a little time to look up some biker B Movies. Sure enough a quick search on Netflix came up with the 1968 flick Angels from Hell among others. I hit play and within minutes my eyes were filled with drum brakes and 3 foot tall sissy bars. Rock on!
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