No sponsors. No press bikes. No affiliate padding. Just the things we've actually taken apart.
Twelve years ago I bought a Honda CB400 that leaked from both forks. Every forum thread said something different, every YouTube video skipped the part I needed, and the one shop in the city that would touch a bike that old quoted me more than I paid for it.
So I worked it out myself, badly, twice, and then properly. And then I wrote it down, because the version I needed had not existed.
That is still the whole editorial policy. If I take something apart and learn something worth knowing, it goes up here in full, including the bit where I got it wrong. There is no other agenda.
Iron & Gasoline covers cafe racers, brats, scramblers, trackers and bobbers, because those are what I build. It is not a news site and it will never review a bike I have not lived with.
Start to finish on one bike, with the full cost sheet and every mistake left in. These run long on purpose. They are the reason the site exists.
How to do one thing properly: polish alloy, lace a wheel, set carb float height, weld a loop that doesn't sag. Short, specific, repeatable.
What we bought, what it cost, whether it lasted. If a part was rubbish it says so, and there are no affiliate links pushing the verdict either way.
What actually makes a brat a brat, why tracker geometry works, where the cafe racer came from. History with the myths taken out.
Every build has its full photo set on the feed, and that's where the conversation happens. Ask there and you'll get an answer, usually the same day.
For anything else — a build you want covered, a correction, or a boring commercial question — email works too.
A short email every Thursday. The week's build story, one thing worth knowing in the garage, and a part we'd actually buy again. That's it.
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