steveb leatherworks: the blather

Took a quick ride with Shank today. It didn’t suck.

So having a “new bike” is still a thrill, happy to say. The shiny penny already has 14,500 miles and I opted to be smart and replace my skins before they were baldini’s. First time I’ve seen this bike on a lift…  I gave up changing tires by hand when i sold Big Blue, my […]

Lame, ridiculous, excessive, unnecessary…but in some twisted way…. useful.. I am ashamed to say i kinda dig it. I hear the snickers….Bad enough i drive a garbage barge, but to add crap like this to it seems like unecessary buffoonery. I know, I know – but if youve ever been on the road trying to […]

Pupkin & I hit the BIBS today…. love that, Bibs, anyway….. We rode down from the great wild north for a dose of some severely urban scenery and probably pissed off like a half million people stuck in multi ton cages due to our lane splitting antics  through some pretty good traffic on the blight ways […]

This gent was showing consummate class slicing and dicing his way through NYC mid day blech. Watching him cut through the clutter was  a bit unnerving – it was obvious no one around him saw him coming…I dont know, it always seemed so dangerous to me, being on a quiet, stealthy bike in a traffic […]

It is well known that i am a big fan of the venerable FXR.  I have had my 1986 vintage for many a long year and can really only say good things about the bike and its design. It is a super flexible model offering the crafty owner a few opportunities to make his mark […]

I  love the style of Italian marques, MV, Ducati and of course  Moto Guzzi. Some years back I had a V11 to ride for a bit…damn bike crippled me ergonomics wise, but it had one hell of a torquey engine and truly had the look of a swoopy sex machine nailed down tight.

Sweet is the only way to describe the new Sportster. Lots of upgrades, design enhancements and tons of changes, all for the better, give Harley a bike that really kicks ass performance wise for a reasonable price (for Harley anyway). In Europe they cant import them fast enough and here in the USA.. .they can’t […]

Harley had a cool concept – selling “dragsters in a box” – so here, meet the V-Rod Destroyer. Pretty much a bullet proof and trouble free way to get into drag racing, this is a plug and play race bike, right out of the crate. I dont know how they sold or if they are […]

Nothing is more liberating than traveling far distances on a bike alone. Most folks I know don’t like to travel alone and find my love of it  – odd. Don’t get me wrong, I love road tripping with my very best friends, but it is a very different experience when you travel alone. I find […]

saw this sweet little chop in front of a DeMare’s Italian bakery the other day….while I was picking up a few Canoli’s (freshly filled of course!).

breakfast run

I’ve seen this Pan rumbling around the ‘hood lately.

Two wheels in NYC take some work, some dedication and grit – be your conveyance a bicycle or motorcycle.

On a visit out to the Greek’s new crib in the hinterlands of NJ with Pupkin, we came across a scene that we just dont see much in our neighborhood.

Eyes wide open walking around the city you see some sweet street meat and then ya see specimen’s of hardship, gestated in the NYC petri dish. Do you think this bike has seen love? coddling, a waxing and detailing or two, do you think it is a poodler? I think this machine tells a story […]

I’ve noticed alot of these dual purpose enduro type bikes out and about. I think many urban cowboy types are buying these stinkers. Is this is a replacement for jacked up hi-tone pickups, CB’s and bull riding at the local “git down” bar.

Some folks talk about “old school” – but what about the guys that wrote the damn book…i mean these rocks are truly…in every sense of the word, pre-school. along these lines, I met an experienced rider some time back, he was a good guy, chatty and eager to tell a story. I think he said he has […]

MV Agusta, in all reality are the ultimate shit in many regards when considering a hi-style, hi-tone son of a bitch race bike that can handle the streets… Aprilla an Ducati are two more, but I am not thinking of them at this moment… And ya know, I can’t say with any degree of honesty […]

I am a child of the 60’s and 70’s- so i have a warm sport in my heart for machines such as this. Forgive me, it aint like i am wearing rust colored corduroy blazers or anything….at least not these days..ha!

I saw these two red bike riding characters in NYC during February. A Ducati and  Honda, both pretty modified cranking around midtown.  I learned  about the machines once i asked – as the owners started rattling off a litany of mods they’d made to their machines..cool guys, cool day in NYC and cool machines.  Ya […]