You-tube channels

[willis]

What you-tube channels are you watching for motorcycle content? I’m always looking for new interesting stuff. Here are a few of my favorites.

Wheelhouse Garage

The Mighty Garage

Coleman Customs

Pacific Mike

Motorcycle Rewind

Wheels Through Time
https://youtu.be/8Lmj_FQxhWM?si=3KHDilmq4pNPFplf

 

[Mailman]

Ahhh……great thread! I also subscribe to Mighty Garage, awesome channel.

Some of my others are,

From Spain, this guy does world class restorations, his videos are time compressed, and best of all….no talking!
https://youtube.com/@LoscarMotorcycles?si=PnyiDQWds08SnAuZ

The Wheels through Time museum channel, a whole bunch of getting old bikes to run videos.
https://youtube.com/@wheelsthroughtime?si=PJ5-SZQSV_ITjGmk

From Japan, this is a great channel if you like classic Japanese bikes. A vintage bike club, the videos are all just of the bikes being filmed as they are being ridden and the sounds of their exhaust and such. Nice videos.
https://youtube.com/@King07T?si=eHb_G80Bl52aFshI

This channel is very amateur , but the content is about rebuilding and restoring an XS2 and an XS1B, so…..
https://youtube.com/@2wheelvintage361?si=ScRYTldeUB9oueNH

 

[Downeaster]

Next to last picture, the Kawasaki W650. I had one EXACTLY like that, same color and everything. Looked sexy as hell. Miserable bastard to start and the brakes were more of a theory than a fact.

 

[Vincenthdfan]

So many different ones I peruse but these are my usual defaults:

https://www.youtube.com/@KaplanCycles

https://www.youtube.com/@bullpencycles

https://www.youtube.com/@motorcyclerewind

https://www.youtube.com/@outlaw86custom

 

[Melnic]

I watch a lot. Too many one might say.
Some on riding
some on skills
some are shills (and often try not to be)
Some on reviews
Some on "bringing back to life" (many just get running and stop there)
Others are just entertainment.
No one knows it all and nearly all of them have something to contribute even if small that I can learn from.


Info & testing
https://www.youtube.com/@FortNine
https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectFarm

Just entertaining
https://www.youtube.com/@BikesandBeards

Bike Reviews on some modern classics
https://www.youtube.com/@stuartfillingham
https://www.youtube.com/@MrDarcy-OlMan

slow riding Skills
https://www.youtube.com/@motorman857
https://www.youtube.com/@MotoJitsu

Get it running vids:
https://www.youtube.com/@2vintage
https://www.youtube.com/@The_Bearded_Mechanic

 

[Jim]

Zack and Ari of Revzilla do some excellent content on off the wall riding adventures. They really crack me up.

Zack Cortes does ride to work road tests on a multitude of bikes.

 

[jetmechmarty]

Itchy Boots and 2Up and Overloaded are my two favorites. Plus, most of the those you guys already posted. I'm also following Freddie Dobbs to some extent and The Wurks.
I watch MC Rider every week.

 

[TX650A Van Islander]

This is a great thread for sure. Itchy and Fortnine have been my go-tos for a long long time. The Bearded Mechanic and Wheels Through time my favourites at the moment. I also enjoy
https://youtube.com/@jonsmotorcyclerescueandrev3538?si=1WW7RpY80G5cQcAX

https://youtube.com/@BigRockMoto?si=7iy-DqyImRKnpGY3


Too many to list really. Depends on what I'm into. @Melnic summed up my type of watching. We are about the same.

 

[Jim]

Ari Hennings "The Shop Manual." Lots of good little tidbits in there.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9zc1l5tX2okoh0dip2pn7drfVT0XcGnD

 

[Vincenthdfan]

Ari Hennings "The Shop Manual." Lots of good little tidbits in there.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9zc1l5tX2okoh0dip2pn7drfVT0XcGnD

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Plus he's got a cool last name....

 

[Mailman]

Ari Hennings "The Shop Manual." Lots of good little tidbits in there.

I really like Ari Henning. I was a subscriber to the late Motorcyclist magazine when he arrived…..literally. He just showed up at their doorstep one day, he was riding around the country on an old Suzuki 600 Bandit. He looked like a California surfer. He got them to print a story he wrote and it wasn’t long before they offered him a job. He was a natural journalist and a talented racer ( like his dad ). It’s been fun to watch him mature into one of our best present day motorcycle journalists.

 

[Jim]

I really like Ari Henning. I was a subscriber to the late Motorcyclist magazine when he arrived…..literally. He just showed up at their doorstep one day, he was riding around the country on an old Suzuki 600 Bandit. He looked like a California surfer. He got them to print a story he wrote and it wasn’t long before they offered him a job. He was a natural journalist and a talented racer ( like his dad ). It’s been fun to watch him mature into one of our best present day motorcycle journalists.
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Same there. Even more interestingly, Ari and Zack grew up together, even though they aren't related. They both hung out together and learned to ride on the same bikes and same tracks... It shows too, they work together on the vids as well as anybody. Well... better than most anybody.

 

[drgonzo]

Ari's dad Todd built a Drixton framed CB450, fully built engine with a head ported by Fast by Ferracci. The purists in AHRMA did not like a jap-bike beating their G50s, MVs and Manx in 500 premiere.
Here's the article.
https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1997/5/1/the-outsider

 

[Jim]

Ari's dad Todd built a Drixton framed CB450, fully built engine with a head ported by Fast by Ferracci. The purists in AHRMA did not like a jap-bike beating their G50s, MVs and Manx in 500 premiere.
Here's the article.
https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1997/5/1/the-outsider

Thanks for that. I knew Zacks dad raced... it's his beemer sidehack rig in one of the videos. Didn't know Ari's dad did too. Pretty cool stuff.

 

[TX650A Van Islander]

I will check out Ari Hennings. I was not aware of him until now so thanks.

 

[TX650A Van Islander]

Ok. I have watched Ari Henning before, just didn't recognize his name. MC Garage. He is great for sure.

 

[willis]

I've been following this Japanese you-tube channel and really quite enjoying it. They do a lot of vintage Yamaha restorations, many are XS models. They are filmed in time lapse and no talking. Their background music is kind of a funny choice for Japanese shop, but I kind of like it. Some of the early XS's they do look in great shape before they tear them down for restoration.

 

[Miker Vee]

These guys are having some real fun with their sidecar:

 

[atom4488]

I like watching this series: "Stories of Bike". There are lots of episodes with varying subject matter.

 

[Adamc]

I like the following:

https://www.youtube.com/@The_Bearded_Mechanic

This guy as he is restoring a GL100 Goldwing (And numerous other bikes):
https://www.youtube.com/@VJMotoResto

This guy is great fun; he constantly gets lost on his Harley:
https://www.youtube.com/@1guyaharleyandadrone657

Dan Ryan. His work on an XS650 has been outstanding.
https://www.youtube.com/@danryan4997